Lindsay McCormick used to be a surf instructor who would watch as trash piled up along the beaches of Malibu. When her career shifted to TV production and she had to travel, she kept a toiletry kit…
UN Climate Change News - Ahead of this year’s UN Climate Change Conference COP26 in Glasgow, the President of the conference, Mr. Alok Sharma, and the President of the UN Climate Change Conference…
Environmental design is becoming more and more relevant as we feel the effects of climate change on our planet. Artists, architects, and other designers are finding new ways to consider the impact of…
Hydrogen, produced without carbon emissions, will find use in many sectors of a future ‘hydrogen economy.’ Its high energy intensity can make it the basis of fuels that reduce carbon emissions in the…
In 2020, Prime Minister Boris Johnson's UK government took the world-leading decision to put an end to public finance for fossil fuel projects(1) overseas. That same government should now take…
Shifting economics and the evolution of design and technology considerations have changed the case for modern wind powered ships, says Kenneth Goh, GM of Knud E. Hansen A/S, Australia.
Massive…
In celebration of Earth Day 2021, Marialena Nikolopoulou, Professor of Sustainable Architecture in the School of Architecture and Planning shares her thoughts on the role the built environment sector…
Five technical working groups are revising draft reports that will feed into a global roadmap for achieving SDG 7 (affordable and clean energy) by 2030 and net-zero emissions by 2050, consistent with…
Expansion of Vietnam’s wind and solar farms is proving crucial to powering its economic growth.
Just as Brazil’s rivers supply it with hydroelectric power and faults in the earth’s crust provide…
Representatives of donor and recipient countries gathered virtually with members of the wider GEF community to discuss priorities and ambitions for the multilateral trust fund’s next four-year…
French power generation company EDF and Uzbekistan’s state hydropower producer, Uzbekhydroenergo, are planning to sign a formal memorandum of understanding and create a 200MW pumped-hydro facility…
An ambitious seven-volume encyclopedia captures the wealth of architectural wonders in 49 sub-Saharan African countries.
The miragelike Grand Mosque of Djenne in Mali could have very well have…
As world powers and polluters end a two-day climate summit with heavy promises to prevent the global warming crisis from spiraling -- are declarations enough and what are the current flaws in Europe'…
The hysteria about urban density that arrived with the coronavirus is—like the pandemic itself—already easing. Regardless of how quickly or slowly urbanites return to their cramped apartments,…
Europe and China are leading the installation of new pumped storage capacity – fuelled by the motion of water.
Batteries are now being built at grid-scale in countries including the US, Australia…
UNEP-FI has brought together 43 of the world’s leading banks to form the UN-convened Net-Zero Banking Alliance.
The newest net-zero alliance, the Net-Zero Banking Alliance (NZBA) brings together an…
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The European Investment Bank (EIB) is approving €340 million for water and renewable energy in Africa. The loans are for the construction of sustainable infrastructure in Mali, Chad, Guinea, Malawi…
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