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Environment
We have crossed the planetary boundary for fresh water
A new analysis carried out by the Stockholm Resilience Centre shows that the freshwater indicator far exceeds the threshold if…
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Policy and Affairs
UN: 5 actions to accelerate renewables before “burning the planet”
UN Secretary-General António Guterres proposes a five-point plan to restart the energy transition, which he called the "21st century peace…
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Pollution deaths, The Lancet alarm: “We’re coming back”
The global review update captures a deteriorating situation, although the total number of deaths is stable.
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Business
Green building: From WorldGBC a program for the circular economy in construction
The World Green Building Council and its network of over 70 Green Building Councils have launched Circularity Accelerator, the global…
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Environment
Mass death of corals, affected 91% of the coral reef
The first monitoring after the March-April bleaching event confirms the expectations. The damage to the reef is extensive, 654 of…
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Environment
Drought warning: for the UN humanity “is at a crossroads”
By 2030 extreme water scarcity could generate 700 million new climate migrants. Original news Second UN for the contrast of…
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Environment
Global warming, 50% chance of exceeding 1.5 ºC within 5 years
In 2015 the chances of exceeding the minimum threshold of the Paris agreement by 2026 were virtually zero. Now they…
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Environment
A study rewrites the ranking of the most intense heat waves ever
The assessment method used by the University of Bristol team is based on local temperature variability, not absolute values. Better…
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Towards a European standard for the voluntary carbon removal market
Today the market is in private hands, it has no shared rules, it guarantees little transparency. And so it is…
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Business
The waste heat of Microsoft data centers to heat Finnish homes
The IT giant has started a collaboration with the Finnish utility Fortum. Objective: to recycle the waste heat of its…
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