The dangers of climate change have been well reported for years. But what's had less attention is how the world could effectively tackle the issue. Yesterday, UN scientists laid out a plan that they believe could help people avoid the worst impacts of rising temperatures. The report, by the UN's Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change... Continue Reading →
Electrolux launches a new Microplastic Filter for washing machines to help prevent up to two plastic bags worth of microplastic fibers* from being released from laundry, per household, every year. The new Microplastic Filter can prevent up to 90% of microplastic fibers, larger than 45 microns, being released from synthetic clothing during laundering. Laundering alone... Continue Reading →
Electrolux launches microplastic filter to help tackle rising tide of plastic pollution
TACTICAL URBANISM or how to save our cities experimenting | LACOMETA
(This video is in Spanish Language) In this new video we will talk about the city as a space for coexistence, social movements and how experimentation and participatory processes are the best "resilience" tool for our cities. I also connect with some very good examples such as the dreamhamar project (Norway) of Ecosistema Urbano or... Continue Reading →
BERLIN (AP) — Temperatures on Earth will shoot past a key danger point unless greenhouse gas emissions fall faster than countries have committed, the world’s top body of climate scientists said Monday, warning of the consequences of inaction but also noting hopeful signs of progress. U.N. Secretary-General Antonio Guterres said the report by the Intergovernmental... Continue Reading →
UN warns Earth ‘firmly on track toward an unlivable world’
The U.N. health agency says nearly everybody in the world breathes air that doesn't meet its standards for air quality, calling for more action to reduce fossil-fuel use, which generates pollutants that cause respiratory and blood-flow problems and lead to millions of preventable deaths each year. The World Health Organization, about six months after tightening... Continue Reading →
WHO says 99% of world’s population breathes poor-quality air
Image-focused social network says it will take down content that distorts or denies facts of climate crisis Pinterest is to block all climate misinformation, as the image-focused social network seeks to limit the spread of false and misleading claims. Under the new policy the site is committing to take down content that distorts or denies... Continue Reading →
Pinterest announces ban on all climate misinformation
"Some government and business leaders are saying one thing—but doing another," António Guterres said in a scathing address. "Simply put, they are lying." Following the publication of a key United Nations climate report on Monday, U.N. Secretary-General António Guterres took aim at governments and corporations—whom he accused "a litany of broken climate promises"—while defending the... Continue Reading →
UN Chief: Those Expanding Fossil Fuels—Not Climate Activists—Are the ‘Truly Dangerous Radicals’
The truth about hydrogen
Some say it's the fuel of the future that will soon power large parts of our economies. Others say it's just a hoax propagated by the oil and gas industry. But either way, EVERYONE in the energy world is talking about hydrogen. Can it really help us get to net zero? Reporter: Malte Rohwer-Kahlmann Camera:... Continue Reading →
By Eric Roston April 4, 2022, 5:30 PM EDT Listen to this article instead! The UN Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has released its latest 3,000-page look at how humanity can avoid compounding catastrophe if nations take sufficient action to do so. So far humanity hasn’t, the report concludes. Left unchanged, the world’s current emissions... Continue Reading →
Five Takeaways from the UN’s Latest 3,000-Page Climate Report
Granted it’s still early in 2022, but signs are emerging that the amount of financing going to coal-related projects is running at a rate that’s more than double last year’s pace. With the first quarter coming to a close, banks (mostly based in China) have helped coal companies raise $9.9 billion via loans and bond... Continue Reading →
Bankers Are Still Standing Behind the Dirtiest Fossil Fuel
CLIMATE CHANGE 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change
Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Streamed on 4.4.22
