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How fresh economics can tackle coronavirus and climate change.

Measures to ease the impact of coronavirus hold lessons for how we can fight the battle against climate change, argue Colin Hines and Rosamund Aubrey, while Carl Gardner looks at the future of our financial centres.

Climate

Parliament pension fund to increase investment in renewables.

The Parliament pension fund has revealed a step up in renewable investment, but MPs have called on the trustees of the fund to end investments in fossil fuels altogether.

Energy

Energy Impact Partners: A primer on the next three decades of the energy transition - Part 1.

Energy Impact Partners research lead, Andy Lubershane, releases a five-part series examining technologies needed to fully decarbonize the energy system, relying on as few technology “moonshots” as possible.

Energy

Ivory Coast-based waste management startup Coliba raises GreenTec funding.

Ivory Coast-based startup Coliba, which has developed a recycling and waste management platform, has raised funding from German firm GreenTec Capital Partners, which will also provide the company with hands-on assistance to help it scale.

Environment

Fish ponds and water harvesting: climate-smart farming comes to Kenya.

Unable to rely on the catch from Lake Victoria, locals are finding success with new and sustainable agriculture methods.

Environment

Coronavirus Holds Key Lessons on How to Fight Climate Change.

When the COVID-19 pandemic is past, societies may adopt some important measures that would lower emissions, from more teleconferencing to shortening global supply chains. But the most lasting lesson may be what the coronavirus teaches us about the urgency of taking swift action.

Climate

Climate change set to make extreme heat more common - and costly.

LONDON (Thomson Reuters Foundation) - The number of people worldwide struggling with extreme heat and humidity by the end of the century could be more than four times as many as today if planet-warming emissions continue to rise, hiking economic losses and health costs, scientists have warned.

Climate

Indian renewables enshrined as ‘essential’ activity during national lockdown.

Indian renewables will be allowed to remain operational to a degree as one of the core sectors of a country embracing shutdown measures to contain the COVID-19 emergency.

Energy

Everyone, everywhere: the global challenge of climate change.

Two manifestos call for climate action on different scales — national and global. The Future We Choose: Surviving the Climate Crisis Christiana Figueres & Tom Rivett-Carnac Knopf (2020)

Climate

Coronavirus lockdown leading to drop in pollution across Europe.

New data, based on observations from the Copernicus Sentinel-5P satellite, are showing strong reductions in nitrogen dioxide concentrations over several major cities across Europe – including Paris, Madrid and Rome.

Climate

Climate change and human health - risks and responses.

Climate change and infectious diseases Today, worldwide, there is an apparent increase in many infectious diseases, including some newly-circulating ones (HIV/AIDS, hantavirus, hepatitis C, SARS, etc.).

Climate

Ο οριστικός κατάλογος συμμετεχόντων στον κοινό διαγωνισμό αιολικών-φωτοβολταϊκών - Στα 508 MW η δημοπρατούμενη ισχύς

Η ΡΑΕ δημοσίευσε τον οριστικό Κατάλογο Συμμετεχόντων στο Στάδιο Β’ της Κοινής Ανταγωνιστικής Διαδικασίας της 2ας Απριλίου.

Energy

UK government reveals decline in greenhouse gas emissions as renewables surge.

Data from the UK Government has revealed that in 2019, greenhouse gas emissions declined 3.6% from 2018.

Climate

British American Tobacco sets out new sustainability strategy.

British American Tobacco publishes its new sustainability report and sets out plans to become carbon neutral by 2030. The tobacco manufacturing company has published its new sustainability report, based on the Group’s evolved strategy to deliver ‘A Better Tomorrow’.

Energy