As cities account for most of the world’s carbon emissions, they play a key role in solving the climate change challenge. A new alliance, dubbed the ...
California’s solution to the drought may lie beneath its surface
The solution to the drought in California may lie below ground: According to a study by scientists from Stanford University, up to 2,700 cubic kilometres ...
What Brexit means for the environment
The issue was low on the agenda ahead of the UK’s referendum on European Union membership, yet its outcome is a “red alert” for the ...
The risks of urbanization
In many countries, urbanization is a key driver of economic growth – at the same time, the process has unsustainable effects such as growing social ...
London: new mayor plans air pollution warning system
London’s new mayor, Sadiq Khan, plans to introduce a system that will warn the public about dangerous levels of air pollution. The system would ...
Vietnam: one million in need of food aid after drought
Vietnam is still suffering from its worst drought in nearly a century: While 1 million people are in urgent need of food aid, 2 million people lack access ...
ICT can help achieve UN’s sustainable development goals
According to a new analysis by Accenture, countries have to harness information and communication technologies in order to achieve the Sustainable ...
How a city in Bangladesh has defeated air pollution
Once one of the most polluted places of the world, the city of Rajshahi, Bangladesh, has freed itself from harmful particles: In just two years, between ...
The impact of limiting the global warming to 1.5 degrees
The Paris agreement on climate change aims to limit the global temperature increase to 1.5 degrees Celsius. But what would be the difference to a global ...
Norway wants to achieve climate neutrality by 2030
Norway’s parliament approved a programme to accelerate emissions cuts and carbon offsetting. With this proposal, the country aims to become climate ...
