Are green envelopes the future of more environmentally-friendly cities? - Copyright Martin Reisch / Unsplash By
• Updated: 13/05/2021 - 15:33
Rudi Scheuermann is the Global Building Envelope Designer at Arup. His focus is on a multidisciplinary design of sustainable and energy-efficient building envelopes. Here he gives us his take on why this architectural approach could reduce temperatures in cities.
With summer around the corner, many cities are preparing to battle increasingly hot temperatures and provide some respite to their citizens. Heatwaves make not only working, travelling and socialising difficult, and in some extreme cases even life-threatening, they are also an economic drain and put pressure on essential services like transport and health.
A campaign group has accused Facebook of systematically spreading climate change denial.
Stop Funding Heat, a campaign group that aims to counter online climate denial and misinformation, says the social media giant is directly spreading climate denial on their advertising platforms. Facebook is taking money in many occasions for content that is out and about climate denial. Sean Buchan, a researcher for Stop Funding Heat told The Cube, Euronews social media newsdesk. This is how their entire business model works, they take money from advertisers to put in between what we call organic posts on the platform.
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40-page study claims that there is no mention of climate misinformation in any of Facebook’s public policies and that existing policies are ineffective.
Updated: 30/04/2021 - 10:00
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Last week New Zealand unveiled a raft of policies aimed at creating a ‘smoke-free generation’ and phasing tobacco products out of the country.
Among ideas expected to be implemented are an increase in the legal smoking age, a potential ban on sale of tobacco products to anyone born after 2004, minimum pricing and vendor restrictions.
The announcement was welcomed by campaigners and civil groups for its contribution to reaching New Zealand’s ambition to be smoke free by 2025.
But as well as being extremely bad for personal health, cigarettes also impact the health of the planet.
Updated: 21/04/2021 - 17:09
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Climate change is putting the lives of more than 700 million children at high risk, warns a major international NGO.
Save the Children released a report this week outlining how 710 million children live in the 45 countries at the highest risk of suffering the consequences of climate change. The charity cautions that these children and their families face a lifetime of extreme weather events like floods, droughts and hurricanes.
The result of these climate change-led disasters is a potential future of water scarcity, rising sea levels, diseases or any combination of these factors. One of the biggest concerns is how these repercussions will affect food production, as local food scarcity will lead to price hikes that disproportionately impact the poorest households.