Environment
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Environment United KingdomUK’s Biggest Pension Fund Pulls Money out of Carbon Industries, Shifts to Renewables
The government-backed National Employment Savings Trust (NEST), UK’s biggest pension fund, intends to stop investing in companies involved in coal mining, oil from tar sands and arctic drilling.
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Environment USALargest Tech Company on the Planet Promises: “Carbon Neutral by 2030”
The largest tech company in the world, Apple, has pledged to become carbon-neutral by the year 2030. This commitment covers not only the supply chain, but also the lifecycle of its products as well as the electricity consumed in their use.
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Environment USAFruit Picking Volunteers Rescue Community Farm from Corona-Crash
The corona pandemic almost bankrupted "Quail Hill Farm", a community-supported farm on Long Island in the state of New York (USA): Revenues dropped, workers had to be let go. But hundreds of volunteers saved the oldest community farm in New York.
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Environment USAMore Coal Mines Close Than Open Worldwide, as Countries Go for Renewables
For the first time on record, more coal mines shut than opened on a global scale over the first six months of a year. That's according to the Global Energy Monitor, an American research and advocacy group that tracks fossil fuel development.
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Environment USANuns Bring 46 Million Dollars to Wall Street to Help Find Climate Solutions
Sixteen congregations of Dominican Nuns approached the investment firm Morgan Stanley to set up a new climate solutions fund that would invest in companies working towards the UN Sustainable Development Goals.
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Technology East TimorAir and Sunlight Is All This Island Needs to Make Clean Water
A project launched in June is tackling the water shortages faced in the remote little island of Atauro, located off the coast of Asia's East Timor, through a technology that transforms sunlight and air into drinking water.