The construction industry plays a crucial role in climate change. But the lawlessness in the sector risks breaking the legs of the entire climate transition work.
The very rich get a free ticket from climate responsibility. In the European Commission’s proposal for new legislation, they get several different exceptions and free access. The richest percent of the world emits twice as much as the poorest half of the world’s population.
The doomsday clock countdown, which serves as a metaphor for the global apocalypse, takes into account the likelihood of threats such as the outbreak of war and the impact of Covid, as well as advances in biotechnology and artificial intelligence.
We know we’re heading for the climate change abyss – and yet we are not doing enough to stop it. Not even frequent reports of melting glaciers, ever-increasing fossil emissions and airlines flying tens of thousands of empty flights around the world to “keep their slots” make us as a society wake up and say stop.
When it comes to climate change, there is often a sigh of relief about how difficult it will be and how much it will cost.…
They’re going to be some real action required to turn the average global temperature to not rise above 1.5°C. It does not look good as…
Every year, nine million people die prematurely due to various forms of environmental pollution. This is shown by a new study published in the journal The Lancet Planetary Health.
The water is draining in the southwestern United States. The great lake Mead has never had such low levels before, and now Los Angeles has introduced restrictions on water consumption.
Nothing happens when it comes to the destruction of tropical rainforests on earth. Rapidly halting the destruction of the earth’s tropical rainforests is critical both…
Last week, more than half of all electricity used in the Netherlands came from renewable sources. This is the first time, according to figures from the website Energieopwek.nl, a partnership of Tennet, Gasunie and Netbeheer Nederland, among others.
The climate movement undeniably had some momentum until the spring of 2020. Then came the pandemic, which closed us in with a new emergency health situation. Preferably a green and prosperous planet, but first an actual vaccine, world leaders seemed to reason.
An ice floe as large as Los Angeles collapsed this week when the temperature in Antarctica was 40 degrees higher than usual for the season. People involved in the climate change issue were reacting to the news that very few others raised an eyebrow, as bad news about the climate has become routine.
Den genomsnittliga personen äter, dricker och andas mellan 74 000 och 121 000 mikroplastpartiklar varje år – och det anses vara en underskattning. Forskningen med titeln “Human Consumption of Microplastics” av Cox et al. publicerad i Environmental Science & Technology presenterar en analys av 26 studier från hela världen och beräknar den genomsnittliga mängden mikroplast som finns i vanliga förbrukningsvaror.
Did you know that electric cars have been around since at least 1834, long before gasoline cars were invented? Would our world have looked different from how it is today if the electric car had continued its development
We are living longer and longer and we have to work longer as it is the key to a better pension. It is not easy to get a job if you are already at the pension age in a European Country, people in their 50s are already getting bought out from their jobs and have a hard time finding a new one.
