Environment

Here are all the posts about the water and air quality, the recycling and other miscellaneous topics that are not in Sustainable development or Energy

The European Union has slashed its greenhouse gases emissions by 40% since 1990

Some positive news for a change : it has been officialized last week that the European Union has cut its emissions by 40 percent between 1990 and 2024. Renewables and energy efficiency played major roles.

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New scientific report shows that 7 of 9 planetary boundaries are now breached

A new scientific study shows that 7 out of 9 planetary boundaries have been breached and both our societies and our ecosystems are in a dire need of a systemic turnaround.

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Climate change is costing us all a fortune… and it might be just the beginning

Two recent studies on the impacts of climate change and its effects show the enormous toll we already are paying financially and socially. This reinforces the case for drastic action.

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A nightmarish landscape after trees got cut.

Earth is ‘really quite sick now’ : 7 out of 8 safety limits reached

To a new study published in Nature, “Earth has pushed past seven out of eight scientifically established safety limits and into “the danger zone,”.

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The United Nations’ High Seas Treaty is a critical step to protecting our oceans

Earlier this month, nations finally agreed on the High Seas Treaty and it’s hailed as an historical event.

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Killing King Coal is the First Step Towards Halving Our Emissions

As I have spent some sleepless nights since the latest IPCC report on how Mankind has to halve its carbon emissions by 2030. For both the European Union and the United States of America, the first step in doing so is killing King Coal. As we shall see, this is already currently happening, it is the moral

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Book review: Enlightenment Now, by Steven Pinker

Steven Pinker’s latest book, Enlightenment Now, misses the mark on climate change and plastic pollution. And this is a problem.

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Four cheap solutions to climate change

Climate change can be fixed by switching from cars to bikes, planting trees in our cities, tapping into energy efficiency’s potential and ditching coal and natural gas for solar and wind. Learn out more in this article.

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