Climate
The carbon footprint of TB treatment
Pranay Lal The energy required to produce, transport and dispose of diagnostic reagents and supplies (e.g., X-ray films or PPE), or antibiotics for treatment […]
Category: Energy
Sustainable Business
Chile wants to close all its coal-fired power plants by 2025
Lorena Guzmán While the original plan involved the closure of eight plants by 2024 and the remaining 20 by 2040, the new modification proposes […]
Sustainable Business
Is hydrogen the new oil?
Fred Pearce Hydrogen may have lost the race to fuel electric cars but it looks a likely contender to replace fossil fuels in trucks, […]
Climate
What next for Germany on climate once Merkel steps down?
Julian Wettengel As Chancellor Merkel leaves office, she could be setting the stage for Germany to become an even more progressive climate partner A […]
Biodiversity
Climate Emergency will be Catastrophic for India
A recent study, The costs of climate change in India, by the UK based Overseas Development Institute reviews climate change related risks faced by India and […]
Sustainable Business
Leaked document suggest proposed revised EU energy law a huge step backwards on climate
A leaked version of the Energy Council’s proposed revision to the EU’s key energy infrastructure regulation – seen by NGOs – would lock in […]
Sustainable Business
Targeting pollutive brick kilns in Bangladesh with AI
Sanjeet Bagcchi A low-cost machine learning method has the potential to track down immensely polluting brick kilns in Bangladesh, helping regulators monitor environmental compliance, […]
Aid
Is 30 percent land converted to protected areas the biggest land grab in history?
Three hundred million people stand to lose their land and livelihood, most of them tribal and indigenous peoples, according to Survival International World leaders […]
Aid
12 years and counting: Pollution control investment at Bosnia’s Ugljevik coal plant still showing no results
Ioana Ciuta Upgrades to the coal power plants in the Western Balkans that would bring down sulphur dioxide emissions are rare. But even where […]
Biodiversity
Rainforests: 11 things to watch in 2021
Rhett A. Butler 2020 was a rough year for tropical rainforest conservation efforts, as explained in Mongabay’s year-end wrap-up on rainforests. So what’s in store […]
Climate
Grid or solar: looking for the best energy solution for the rural poor
Jörg Peters, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research and Maximiliane Sievert, Leibniz Institute for Economic Research Grid electricity is often said to be critical for […]
Sustainable Business
Blockchain Can Trace Carbon Emissions for Mining
The World Economic Forum’s Mining and Metals Blockchain Initiative (“MMBI”), released a proof of concept that uses distributed ledger technology to track embedded greenhouse […]