At the Committee of the Regions (CoR) in Brussls a new board of seven European mayors has been launched. The European Covenant of the Mayors Board is ...
WBGU Gutachten zur Rolle der G20 im globalen Transformationsprozess
Im Rahmen des Treffens der Außenminister der G20 vom 16.–17.02.2017 in Bonn wird der WBGU, in Zusammenarbeit mit einem Verbund von Think Thanks aus ...
The implementation of a carbon tax proposed in the USA
A group of Republicans and businessmen has proposed for a carbon tax that is supposed to replace the Obama administration environmental regulations aimed ...
Gasoline powered Smarts will not be sold in North America anymore
Smart cars will not be sold anymore in the United States and Canada when the 2017 model with a gasoline engine ends in autumn this year. Daimler will only ...
100 million EVs worldwide by 2035 but the oil demand will not decline
BP’s recently released Energy Outlook report states that 100 Million EVs on the road by 2035 but internal combustion engines (ICE) will still make ...
Streetlights as charging stations for EVs in the UK
UK Power Networks and Ubitricity have started to convert street lights into EV charging points in Kensington. By using street lights as charging stations, ...
U.S. cities to face floods three times a week by 2045
A new research study published last week in the journal PlOS One, finds that floods could occur several times a week on average by 2045 along the mid- ...
EU to shut all 300 coal plants by 2030 to meet Paris climate goals
According to a report by the thinktank Climate Analytics, the European Union needs to completely shut all 300 coal plants by 2030 otherwise it will ...
A new Ink that is made of emissions in the air
“Graviky Labs” is an MIT Media Lab spin-off company that has developed a new method to make air cleaner by detoxifying and converting the ...
“Treepedia” shows how green your city is
Researchers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), in cooperation with the World Economic Forum, have created a website, named “ ...
