Climate Change
Britain’s new PM, Ms Truss, made little effort to impress green campaigners when she was a Secretary of State for the environment, food, and rural affairs from 2014 to 2016. She is also believed to have agreed to cut the budget, which would have helped the enforcement of environmental regulations.
Energy Crisis
Russian energy giant Gazprom has permanently stopped gas supplies to Western Europe via Nord Stream 1, giving the reason for equipment issues. The European Commission (EC), anticipating the situation earlier this year, had already urged countries to cut their gas use by 15% from August.
Climate Change
Many European countries saw relatively little snowfall last year, making the Alps vulnerable with comparably little ice cover. Then the summer came this year with three heat waves (until now), marked by temperatures over 30°C, and these heat waves are melting the glaciers.
Climate Change
Wars mean destruction to the economy, human lives, and severe impacts on the planet. As the war begins, history has spoken and continues to speak on different occasions, be it Ukraine-Russian, Syrian, or Afghanistan— hundreds of thousands of people are killed or displaced.
Energy Crisis
The world creates 2.01 billion tons of municipal solid garbage each year. With the world's population already crossing 7.7 billion, the waste will only go up unless they are sorted out and upscaled.
Climate Change
On 13 June, the European High-Performance Computing Joint Undertaking (EuroHPC JU) inaugurated its latest supercomputer, Large Unified Modern Infrastructure (LUMI), located in Kajaani, Finland. With a peak speed of more than 550 petaflops per second, it is the fastest in Europe.
Energy Crisis
A tradition of importing gas and oil from Russia became more common during the decade after WWII, when the Soviet Union’s relationship with Western Europe flourished and Russia started delivering gas, oil, and coal, making mainly Ukraine the transit point.
Climate Change
While the world’s powerful economies, Group of Seven (G7) met at the Bavarian Alps for their yearly meeting, Greenpeace activists placed a peace symbol made of more than 300 burning candles at an altitude of 1,600 meters near Garmisch-Partenkirchen.
Climate Change
Last week, most parts of Central and Western Europe were punished with an unbearable heat that used to be normal only in August, just a few years ago. France, Germany, Spain, Poland, and Austria were some of the countries that fought against the peak temperatures above 104°F (40°C).
Climate Change
The Members of the European Parliament (MEPs) of the Economic and Monetary Affairs Committee and the Environment, Public Health, and Food Safety Committee objected with 76 votes to 62 votes to the European Commission's (EC) proposal to label specific nuclear and gas energy ‘green’.
Climate Change
We are now halfway between COP26, which happened last year in November in Glasgow, and COP27, happening in Egypt, later this year. To make sure the nations are on the track to achieving the promises made at COP26 and make them prepared for COP27, the delegates are meeting this time
Climate Change
The Emirates Waste to Energy plant in Sharjah, which is a joint venture between BEEAH and Masdar was inaugurated on May 24, 2022. First announced in 2018, the plant was originally planned to open in 2020 but was postponed due to COVID-19.