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January 2, 2021 ANKARA  December saw several reports on climate change and extreme weather events, EU leaders’ agreement on cutting greenhouse emissions by 55% by 2030 as well as an announcement of Europe’s climate body which said November 2020 was the warmest November on record. Here is a look at environmental developments, reports, events and stories compiled by Anadolu Agency. Dec. 1: – Australia breaks record for its warmest November, according to local media. – Amid a loosening of...

December 29, 2020 - ALROSA remains a constituent of the WWF Environmental Transparency Rating of Russian Metals and Mining companies, published in December 2020. WWF Russia initiated this Rating with the support of the EU and UN Environment Program, as well as GEF and the countrys Ministry of Natural Resources. Rating aims to support reduction of negative impact on the environment and increase efficiency of the natural resources use, as well as to conduct sustainable business in Russia. ALROSA ...

University students make bricks from plastic waste Chia sẻ | FaceBookTwitter Email Copy Link Copy link bài viết thành công  29/12/2020    16:36 GMT+7 A team of third-year students at the HCM City University of Technology has developed lightweight bricks from plastic waste. Lac Dan Hy, head of Octoplastic, the team of students, said the idea of making bricks from plastic waste came ...

The Paris Agreement, which celebrated its fifth birthday on December 12, is among the most remarkable diplomatic achievements in world history, representing decades of work to arrive at a common framework for capping global temperature rise at “well below” 2 degrees Celsius. It’s also basically toothless—as is the body in which it was brokered: the United National Framework Convention on Climate Change, or UNFCCC. President-elect Joe Biden has promised to undo Trump’s withdrawal and r...

About this blog: Climate change, despite its outsized impact on the planet, is still an abstract concept to many of us. That needs to change. My hope is that readers of this blog will develop a better understanding of how our climate is evolving a...  (More) About this blog: Climate change, despite its outsized impact on the planet, is still an abstract concept to many of us. That needs to change. My hope is that readers of this blog will develop a better understanding of how our climate is e...

Date Time UB takes part in first assessment report on climate and environmental change in Mediterranean The final version of the first Mediterranean Assessment Report (MAR1) has been published recently. The report is prepared by an independent scientific network of Mediterranean Experts on Climate and Environmental Change (MedECC), formed by 187 scientists from 25 countries –31% of them from the southern and eastern area of the Mediterranean–. Among the experts is the professor of Atmospher...

Climate and environmental crisis: Sorcerer’s apprentices at the World Bank and the IMF 23 December 2020 by In December 2020, on the occasion of the fifth anniversary of the signature of the Paris Agreement on Climate, the UN General Secretary sounded the alarm because the situation has fundamentally worsened. In this article we analyze what the World Bank and the IMF have done in connection with the environmental crisis and climate change. At the end of October 2006 Nicholas Stern, A...

The natural gas storage report from the EIA for the week ending December 11th indicated that the quantity of natural gas held in underground storage in the US had decreased by 122 billion cubic feet to 3,726 billion cubic feet by the end of the week, which left our gas supplies 284 billion cubic feet, or still 8.3% higher than the 3,442 billion cubic feet that were in storage on December 11th of last year, and 243 billion cubic feet, or 7.0% above the five-year average of 3,483 billion cubic fe...

1 Shares Soy may have a pretty innocuous reputation thanks to its association with vegan food and meat alternatives. But don’t be fooled – crops of this pale legume are behind much of Brazil’s epidemic of deforestation. Since 2000, Brazil has doubled its total area of soy plantation to 36 million hectares and become the world’s largest producer. This expansion has erased vast swathes of forest and other habitats in some of the country’s most biodiverse regions. About 75% of the so...