Around 2,000 people – including senior figures from IBM, Google and Barclays – attend the Second Global Session of the UN Science-Policy-Business Forum
Forum launches initiatives on using big data…
2019 may be the year Europe stops financing the incineration of precious resources: the European Parliament’s proposal to cut EU subsidies to waste disposal and incineration facilities within the…
Rain is becoming more frequent in Greenland and accelerating the melting of its ice, a new study has found.
Scientists say they're "surprised" to discover rain falling even during the long Arctic…
A new study has found that marine heatwaves (MHWs) are starting to affect global biodiversity.
The report, published in Nature Climate Change, has found that heatwaves in oceans are becoming more…
The sixth Global Environmental Outlook.
Press Conference 13th March 2019 (Part A) by
President of the Environment Assembly Siim Kiisler,
UN Environment's Acting Executive Director Joyce Msuya,…
ABOUT SOLAR KENYA 2019
2nd Solar Africa 2019
Date: 21- 23 March 2019
Location: Ethiopia - Millenium Hall, Addis Ababa
The overwhelming response from the Solar Industry has encouraged Expogroup…
Thousands of schoolchildren across the U.S. will be protesting on Friday, uniting with young people around the globe in a goal they believe is critical to their collective future: pressuring world…
A new study has found that coastal wetlands play an important role in reducing the effects of climate change.
The study, a collaboration between global universities, including the University of…
California has passed its 33% renewable energy target two years before the 2020 deadline. The state’s next renewable milestone is at 44% by 2024, a 33% growth in just over five full years.
The…
Faced with climate change, transportation and energy are the 2 key sectors in terms of sustainable energy transition. Can automobiles change the world?
The new United Nations Sustainable Development…
Spain’s second largest area just released its Zero Waste strategy plan with clear objectives for 2025.
With 4.5 million inhabitants and a current 30% separate collection rate, it seems that…
As renewable energy proliferates, major players like Hitachi, ABB and GE are seeing value in combining grid and generation business units.
During DISTRIBUTECH 2019, Terrance Donnelly, COO at ComEd…
There’s a $700-billion opportunity for African countries over the next five years if they can close the gender gap in mobile-phone ownership, according to GSMA, the global mobile-trade body. It bases…
Cop25 will take place 2-13 December 2019 in Santiago, the Chilean capital, UN officials announced.
Cop25, as it is known, was originally scheduled for November in Brazil, but the plan changed after…
The South African capital’s crippling water crisis has spawned a host of new taboos and industries.
It’s 11 am on a Saturday, and both my Cape Town local mall and my bladder are pumping. After one B…
Droughts have become more commonplace in South Africa in recent years. In the past two decades since 1990, 12 of those years were defined as drier years compared to only seven years in the previous…
The U.S. Department of Energy’s innovation arm wants to disrupt floating offshore wind turbine technology.
On February 1, the Advanced Research Projects Agency-Energy (ARPA-E) announced it was…