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When asked why they chose Tado, he said that customers’ main reason was, “I want to save money. The second reason is, I want to make the planet a better place. If we cannot fulfill the first one,” he stressed, “the second one becomes less relevant.” China seems to offer many solutions. Although coal consumption […]
Rarely has a climate summit venue so accurately reflected the mood and unfolding of negotiations. For two bumpy weeks, the labyrinthine corridors in Baku’s Olympic Stadium have echoed with the hurried footsteps of negotiators rushing from one windowless meeting room to the next, avoiding dead-ends and wrong turns among the endless passageways. Further characterized by missing […]
An unprecedented year of elections around the world has underscored a sobering trend – in many countries the commitment to act on the climate crisis has either stalled or is eroding, even as disasters and record temperatures continue to mount. So far 2024, called the “biggest election year in human history” by the United Nations […]
A fresh draft deal published at the deadlocked COP29 climate talks shows rich and poor countries still divided. Fierce bargaining at UN climate talks in Azerbaijan dragged into Saturday after a $250 billion a year offer from rich nations was flatly refused by developing countries hardest hit by Earth’s rapid warming. Negotiators from nearly 200 […]
Breadcrumb Trail Links Local News U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service documents show that over 6,800 live macaques from Cambodia were shipped to Montreal since early 2023. Published Nov 22, 2024 • Last updated 52 minutes ago • 5 minute read You can save this article by registering for free here. Or sign-in if you have an […]
The international community’s efforts in tackling the global plastics crisis have reached a pivotal moment, leading up to the fifth and last scheduled intergovernmental negotiating committee (INC-5) to take place in Busan, South Korea starting on November 25. If countries agree to an international framework to reduce the production and consumption of plastics, the world […]
Brereton denies ‘widespread’ disquiet about Nacc Sarah Basford Canales The Nacc commissioner, Paul Brereton, does not accept there is “widespread” disquiet about the federal integrity body after the fallout of its decision not to investigate robodebt referrals. Under questioning by Greens senator David Shoebridge, and Liberal MP Keith Wolahan, Brereton accepted there was some public […]
Motorcyclists are always trying to get the most out of our bikes — the most sound, the most power, the most fun. Some folks take this to extremes, clearing out everything that could possibly interfere with those precious exhaust pathways, up to and including their spark arrestors. As a fellow motorcyclist, I beg of you: […]
Nutritious crops aren’t getting to the people who need nutrition most, even in one of the most fertile places on Earth: Indonesia. Exploring some of the forgotten foods from the country’s more than 17,000 islands, food entrepreneur Helianti Hillman explains why centering food policy on biodiversity, rather than monoculture, is the key to healthier people […]
On the Environment Variables podcast we co-produce with the Green Software Foundation, Chris was was recently joined by Tzviya Siegman, the new sustainability lead at the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), and Alexander Dawson, one of the key authors of the W3C Web Sustainability Guidelines, to talk about how they’ve developed, and where they’re going […]