It’s time to rethink personal carbon allowances, research suggests
2021-08-30
It might be tricky and some might not like it, but a PCA could lower emissions.
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Can Accounting for the True Cost of Food Change the Global Food System?
2021-08-30
A new book argues that it’s not only possible to measure the human, social, and environmental impacts of food from production to consumption—it’s essential.
Working out finance plan for developing countries: COP26 president in India
2021-08-27
Concluding his three-day India visit on Wednesday, COP26 president Alok Sharma said that he has requested the Indian government to consider raising ambitions in emission reduction targets and reiterated that a delivery plan on finance for developing countries is being put in place ahead of the conference in Glasgow later this year.
UK government reveals plans for £4bn hydrogen investment by 2030
2021-08-27
The government hopes to attract at least £4bn of investment to the hydrogen economy by 2030 under plans to produce the equivalent of enough hydrogen to replace fossil fuel gas for heating and cooking in about 3m households in the UK.
Denmark, Costa Rica seek alliance to speed up the end of oil and gas
2021-08-27
Denmark and Costa Rica are trying to forge an alliance of countries willing to fix a date to phase out oil and gas production and to stop giving permits for new exploration, government ministers said and documents showed.
Ending subsidies that harm nature could create millions of green jobs, WWF says
2021-08-23
Moving government support for environmentally damaging industries into green sectors like recycling and sustainable forest management could boost employment, report finds.
Report: Clean electricity accounted for record two-thirds of EU’s generation mix for first half of 2021
2021-08-23
Renewables and nuclear power accounted for a record 66% of electricity production across the EU during the first half of 2021, with clean energy proving far more resilient to the pandemic than fossil fuels.
Green taxation can help us recover from the Covid-19 crisis. Here’s how
2021-08-23
Raising taxes during an economic downturn might seem counterintuitive but it could be the key to Covid-19 recovery. The secret lies in which taxes to raise: when it comes to impacts on the economy, jobs, and the environment, not all taxes are created equal.
EGYPT: Emirates NBD to finance agricultural wastewater reuse in Al-Hamam
2021-08-17
Emirates NBD is providing 2 billion Egyptian pounds (over $127.35 million) of financing for the construction of a new agricultural wastewater treatment plant in Upper Egypt. Called Al – Hamam, the facility will have a treatment capacity of 6 million m3 per day.
Israel to impose carbon tax, starting with fossil fuels
2021-08-17
From 2023 to 2028, a carbon tax will be applied, at slowly increasing levels, to coal, liquified petroleum gas, fuel oil, petcoke and gas, in a move expected to cover about 80 percent of Israel’s greenhouse gas emissions.
