25 states pledge $ 9.3 bn to help developing countries lower emissions, become climate-resilient
Twenty-five countries have pledged a $ 9.3 billion financial support to the Green Climate Fund ...
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FluRefin carbon capture system cops 2023 Engineering Award
FluRefin – a carbon capture system that is much cheaper and has an extremely small ...
Luxembourg invests EUR 2.9 m for UNDP’s programs on poverty, gender equality, climate
Luxembourg has invested EUR 2,9 million fully flexible funds for the 2023 schemes of the ...
Unilever identifies four ways for sustainable business model to equal economic growth
Unilever has identified four ways for a sustainable business model can equal economic growth. Sustainable ...
Bangladesh almost halves its poverty rate, allocates $12 bn for social programs
Bangladesh has succeeded to cut its poverty rate from 41.5 percent in 2006 to 18.7 ...
HSBC plans to $1bn financing to back early-stage climate tech companies
HSBC has announced that it plans to make available $ 1 billion of financing to ...
UK becomes biggest single contributor for climate action financing
UK will provide $2 billion to the Green Climate Fund (GCF) – the biggest single ...
Canada, UK contribute over 217 million Canadian dollars for new Global Biodiversity Fund
Canada and the UK announced initial contributions of 200 million Canadian dollars and 10 million ...
FAO, UK launch $ 3.8 m action program to mitigate El Niño impact on Somalia
The Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations (FAO) and the British Embassy Mogadishu ...
Honda turns recycled uniforms, plastic bottles into parts of cars
Honda is turning recycled uniforms and plastic bottles to be parts of the cars within ...
Norway to contribute $ 45 m to finance UNESCO educational programs worldwide
Norway will provide a voluntary contribution of $45 million to finance educational programs being implemented ...
UNEP report: Indigenous Peoples’ climate lawsuits have “limited success” at courts, better chance before UN bodies
Indigenous Peoples’ climate lawsuits have had “limited success” at court but they have seen more ...
Sheffield Univ. new park from recycled materials with selected trees for swift environmental impact
Sheffield University built a new pocket park from recycled and leftover materials featuring new semi-mature ...
Nike’s ReactX footwear designed to cut carbon footprint by at least 43%
Nike‘s ReactX footwear is engineered to cut down its carbon footprint in a pair of ...
Allianz to invest EUR 20 m in Norwegian green ammonia production plants developer Fuella
Allianz Capital Partners, on behalf of Allianz insurance companies (“Allianz”), will provide funding of EUR ...
UK allocates £8.85 m to upskill people to make homes more energy efficient
The UK allocated about £8.85 million to organize training courses to help up to 8,000 ...
Rimba Collective, Dove partner to protect, restore 123,000 acres of rainforest in Southeast Asia
Dove teamed up with Rimba Collective to help protect and restore an area of forest ...
Tide Turners app to help young people in small-island developing state combat plastic pollution
Tide Turners app – developed by the United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) – aims to ...
Research examines how honeybees’ brain can inspire more efficient robots
A new research examines how sesame-sized honeybees’ brain – which excels decision-making – could help ...
Survey: 60% of 744 EU municipalities consider investments in climate mitigation insufficient
The 2022 Municipality Survey – released by the European Investment Bank (EIB) – showed that 60% ...
New strategy for global shipping to move towards phasing out GHG emissions
A new strategy is expected to set global shipping on an ambitious path towards phasing ...