Environment
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Environment IndonesiaPalm Oil Competitors Join Forces to Protect Forests with High-Tech Monitoring
Ten major companies that sell and use palm oil are working together on a new radar system to accelerate the fight against deforestation, closely monitoring forests across the world’s top two palm oil producers and exporters: Malaysia and Indonesia.
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Environment UAEDubai Kicks out Cars, Uses Waste Water for Lawns to Build Sustainable City
Twenty kilometers away from the towers of Dubai’s city Skyline lies the future “net-zero” Sustainable City – producing energy from renewable sources in a settlement comprised of 500 solar-powered villas for nearly 3,000 people, commercial spaces and a mosque.
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Environment The NetherlandsThe Ocean Cleanup is Now Cleaning Rivers to Fight Plastic Pollution at the Source
The Ocean Cleanup has developed a new strategy to stop plastic waste from entering our oceans and harming marine animals, by removing trash directly from the source: rivers, or as CEO Boyan Slat likes to call it, “The arteries that carry waste from land to the…
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Environment Indonesia143 Million Bucks to Protect Indonesia’s Rain Forest and Fight Climate Change
Indonesia is setting up a new green fund to protect its rainforests, create a carbon trading program and tackle climate issues, as part of its Paris Agreement plan to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by at least 29 percent by 2030.
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Environment FranceCountries Promise Green Climate Fund More Billions to Protect Our Earth
The Green Climate Fund has received 9.8 billion dollars in new pledges from wealthy nations – exceeding the commitments from the first pledging conference in 2014 – in a drive to help poorer countries better tackle climate issues.
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Environment The PhilippinesSuper Typhoons Make Farmer in the Philippines Grow Bamboo for Toothbrushes
After growing up watching his father barely make a living through slash-and-burn agriculture in the Philippines province of Sultan Kudarat, Mark Sultan Gersava became a bamboo “chief executive farmer” to help other farmers earn more – while straying away from plastic pollution.
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Environment Frankreich27 Cities Are Racing Towards a Lower Carbon Future
At least 27 of the C40 Cities Climate Leadership Group member cities have peaked their greenhouse gas emissions and are already on their way towards meeting the goal of the Paris Agreement. The 27 cities represent 54 million people and $6 trillion in GDP.
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EnvironmentRenewable Energy Could Beat Coal Power for the First Time Ever – If We Play It Right
The International Energy Agency has revealed that renewable energy capacity is expected to rise by at least 50% within five years, and in an “accelerated case”, renewables may even match coal as the world’s equally largest source of electricity.
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EnvironmentPolar Bears, Whales and Co. Take Summer Break in Canada’s Newest Marine Protected Area
With climate change increasingly affecting Arctic ice, Canada has made plans to guard its far northern Arctic region of Tuvaijuittuq, giving refuge to ice-dependent species including walruses, polar bears, seals, and narwhals.