Climate Change
A climate credit card records the cardholder's carbon footprint to help them visualize total emissions regarding their actions and choice of purchase. Major credit card companies, such as Mastercard and Visa have already adopted the practice.
Climate Change
For 14 days, about 35,000 people, representing nearly 200 countries, attended the COP27 summit in Sharm el-Sheikh to discuss the ways to keep 1.5°C alive by undertaking sustainable cuts in greenhouse gases.
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Liquefied Natural Gas (LNG) has made a headline this week as the oil tanker, called British Sponsor left Mozambican territorial waters carrying the first cargo from LNG Coral Sul FLNG facility, installed 80 kilometers offshore Mozambique.
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Since 1994, the UN climate summit, called the Conference of the Parties (COP) is held every year for governments to agree on steps to limit global temperature rises. On 6th November, the 27th meeting (COP27) took place in Sharm el-Sheikh and will run until 18th November.
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The Inflation Reduction Act of 2022 aims to raise $740 billion to curb inflation by reducing the deficit, lowering prescription drug prices, and promoting clean energy. The bill, passed on August 16, 2022, was an amendment to the Build Back Better Act.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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.
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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).
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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’.