Aleksander Čeferin pledges UEFA support for European Climate Pact Wednesday 16 December 2020
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European football’s governing body ready to do everything it can to help achieve EU’s vision of a climate neutral economy by 2050.
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President Aleksander Čeferin announced UEFA’s support for the European Climate Pact on Wednesday, pledging to use football’s global reach to raise awareness of the climate emergency and inspire more people to take action to save the planet.
Launched in Brussels last week, the European Climate Pact invites people, communities and organisations to pro-actively contribute to the Green Deal – the European Union’s (EU) plan to create an economy with net-zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050.
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The World Biodiversity Forum Announces New Virtual Convention in January 2021, Advised by the Convention on Biological Diversity and in Collaboration with TEALEAVES
The World Biodiversity Forum will end the decade with a series of virtual collaborative events and workshops to inspire a variety of stakeholders to take action to preserve biodiversity. Davos, Switzerland, December 21, 2020 (PR.com) The 2021 edition of the World Biodiversity Forum, organized by University of Zurich, bioDISCOVERY and TEALEAVES, will be held virtually. The series of events will commence on January 7th, 2021, and continued in the main events held in May 2021. The 2021 Virtual World Biodiversity Forum brings together leading researchers, societal actors, youth representatives, practitioners, and decision-makers from different sectors in panel discussions and interactive workshops. The purpose is to inspire actions to achieve the goals of the new global biodiversity framework
Rural communities hit hardest by 14pc VAT on solar, clean cooking products
Monday December 21 2020
Kenya is a pace-setter in off-grid solar solutions.
In 2019, it was estimated that there were some five million pico solar products and 700,000 solar home systems in use by Kenyan households.
Kenya has been lauded internationally for progress made towards the 2022 universal energy access target with a reported 75 percent energy access rate today.
Underlying these numbers is a fact well-known by industry practitioners: the national grid only reaches about 50 percent of Kenyan households. Twenty-five percent of households are served by solar energy.
A 34-year-old mother of five who runs a grocery business in a village in western Kenya recently acquired a solar home system to boost her day to day activities both in the house and for her trade.
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2020-12-19 22:05:54 GMT2020-12-20 06:05:54(Beijing Time) Xinhua English
by Peter Mertz
DENVER, the United States, Dec. 19 (Xinhua) While American eyes focused on the COVID-19 pandemic and the closely contested presidential election in 2020, history was also made by the wildfires that ravaged America s West on an unprecedented scale.
In 2020, an astonishing 52,113 fires burned close to 9 million acres (about 36,400 square kilometers) across the nation, and claimed 53 lives and 6,500 structures, according to the latest data released by the National Interagency Fire Center (NIFC), an Idaho-based federal agency in charge of co-ordination of wildland firefighting resources in the United States.
It was a record-setting year for devastation in numerable categories, and overall acreage almost doubled the land burned in 2019.