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Cannes green push faces industrys rubbish record Issued on: 03/07/2021 - 05:36 As part of the festivals efforts to go green, this years Cannes red carpet will be half the size of that last seen in 2019 Alberto PIZZOLI AFP 3 min Paris (AFP) The Cannes Film Festival has vowed to go green, even trimming its red carpet in half -- but can it make any difference to an industry built around private jets and rampant consumption? Movie stars from Leonardo DiC...

online teleworking has been one of these. Although teleworking can reduce the environmental impact due to reduced use of transport to work establishments, it produces other damages due to the excessive use of technological equipment that emits carbon. The COVID-19 pandemic has increased the use of technological tools for online telecommuting, producing carbon emissions of up to 35 million tons. Technological devices, by not physically releasing substances, give the impression that online jobs...

PARIS, May 26 — The concept of digital sobriety, which consists in reducing the environmental impact of new technologies through simple gestures, is still relatively unknown. However, an increasing number are becoming aware of the importance of minimising CO2 emissions linked to their online use....

From more sustainable technology to reduced travel emissions, flexibility can be pretty green

Streaming platforms finally have a tool to evaluate the size of their carbon footprint. Now they need to take action and go green

10:30am — 12:00pm Update (2/23/21): A recording of the talk has been uploaded at the bottom of this page. CLIMATE TALK:  Presented by the Responsive Environments group at the MIT Media Lab Register for this talk here. SPEAKER: Jean-Marc Jancovici, Advisor to the French government on climate change and energy. Host: Caroline Jaffe, PhD Student in Responsive Environments Moderator: Félix Michaud, PhD student at Sorbonne Université Bio:  Jean-Marc Jan...

Investors in Canadian mining company Tahoe Resources paid a price when Tahoe failed to disclose the extent of community and Indigenous opposition to its Escobal mine in Guatemala a few years back. Its stock was flying high at $27 a share, but it fell after a string of lawsuits and violent conflicts — including security guards shooting protesters in the back. The mine was eventually suspended by a Guatemalan court, and Tahoe was sold to Pan American Silver for about $5 a share. People who inv...

In The News 19 Jan 2021 The Climate Community Lab, a brand-new initiative financed by EIT Climate-KIC and led by Partners, has started driving impact in the CEE (Central and Eastern Europe) region. The winners of the first grant in the IdeaLab stream, led by EIT Climate-KIC Partner organisations Ashoka and 4CF, were announced to introduce the cross-border project aiming at creating new food cooperatives in the agri-food sector. The winning project will receive €20,000 to deliver c...

Are Your Netflix Binges Killing The Planet? By Alex Kimani - Jan 17, 2021, 12:00 PM CST The use of streaming video has grown exponentially around the world, with pandemic-driven shelter-in-place mandates helping to supersize the industry. The live streaming industry recorded nearly 100% growth at the height of the pandemic, with viewers consuming 3.93 billion hours of content in April 2020 compared to 1.97 billion hours in April 2019.  The rapid growth of these services has frequent...

With the 2021 General Assembly session soon approaching, advocates and some health officials are pushing legislators to back the long-debated expansion of paid sick leave to hourly-wage workers, many of