Climate Change
If global food waste were a country, it would rank third in the world in terms of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. Food waste created during processing, transporting, preparing, and storing has a cascading effect that has a long-term impact on the ecosystem.
Climate Change
If global temperature rises by 2.9°C compared to pre-industrial levels, the world's most-vulnerable countries’ average GDP will fall by 20% by 2050 and 64% by 2100. These nations require at least $300 billion a year to respond to damage by 2030. Now, the question is, who should pay for this?
Climate Change
The beginning of 2020 saw countries going into lockdown due to the COVID-19 pandemic. The economy came to a standstill and transportation was curtailed. As a result, as destructive as the pandemic was, there was a comforting decrease in global GHG emissions.
Climate Change
The global consumption of the fashion industry was 62 million metric tons in 2019, which is expected to rise to 102 million tons by 2029. Every year, the fashion industry emits more than 1.2 billion tons of CO2 equivalent, which is more than the GHG emitted by France, the UK, and Germany combined.
Climate Change
The EU has raised the emission target bar to at least a 55% reduction by 2030 and climate neutrality by 2050. In response, Italy aims to cut down its emission by around 60% by 2030 and reach “net-zero” by the year 2050, with the help of €80 billion EU funds for the energy transition.
Renewable Energy
The renewable energy capacity in Scandinavia countries has been growing steadily during the past ten years, although each country depends on a different source. Denmark relies on wind energy and biofuels, Norway on hydropower, and Sweden on biofuels.
Climate Change
France’s current national law targets to decrease greenhouse gas emissions by 40% by 2030 compared to 1990 levels. However, more than 100 NGOs have criticized the French government for setting the bar too low.
Climate Change
On Monday, April 4, 2022, The Working Group III of IPCC issued its report on climate change mitigation progress. One chapter raised the concern about the large amount of energy consumed by digital technologies.
Climate Change
On Wednesday, March 30, the European Commission communicated the new EU strategy for sustainable and circular textiles. This strategy will focus on the practice of eliminating overproduction and overconsumption of textiles and subsequently fast fashion.
Renewable Energy
End of March 2022, Lidl released a press statement saying they will be switching the entire battery-powered electric logistics vehicles to fuel cells powered by green hydrogen. This will make the supermarket chain the first in Europe to make this adventurous movement.
Climate Change
The Cumbre Vieja volcano on Spain's La Palma Island, which exploded on September 19, 2021, for the first time since 1971, gained worldwide attention. It lasted for 85 days and caused the fire to scorch more than 2,000 acres of land, resulting in an evacuation of around 7,000 people.
Climate Change
Some commonly used heating systems are heat pumps, boilers, natural gas furnaces, and electric baseboard heaters. They all have varying efficiencies, costs, and emissions. In comparison, heat pumps have higher installation costs but they come with the benefit of lower operating costs.