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IMMOFINANZ to reach emission-free status by 2040
IMMOFINANZ is making an important contribution to the fight against climate change with its new Net Zero Emission Strategy. Plans call for a reduction of 60 percent (below the 2019 level) in...
A Healthy Environment as a Human Right in Coastal East Africa
In October 2021, the United Nations Human Rights Council recognized that having a clean, healthy, and sustainable environment is a human right. So what does this mean in practice - especially in...
The first scientific conference within the Biosphere Reserve Mura-Drava-Danube
The lifelineMDD online mid-term conference, organized by the project team at the end of November, gathered over 100 researchers, scientists, nature conservationists, water management representatives and other participants from Austria, Slovenia, Croatia,...
From Birth to Ban: A History of the Plastic Shopping Bag
A novelty in the 1970s, plastic shopping bags are now an omnipresent product found in every corner of the world. Produced at a rate of up to one trillion bags per year,...
10 Ways You Can Help Fight the Climate Crisis
The evidence is irrefutable: unless we act immediately to reduce greenhouse gas emissions, we will not be able to stave off the worst consequences of climate change.
The world is already 1.2°C warmer...
Nature-Based Solutions as a Response to Climate Change
Today International Union for Conservation of Nature, Regional Office for Eastern Europe and Central Asia (IUCN ECARO), in cooperation with the Public Investment Management Office of the Government of the Republic of...
WMO Recognizes new Arctic Temperature Record of 38⁰C
A temperature of 38°C (100.4°F) in the Russian town of Verkhoyansk on 20 June 2020 has been recognized as a new Arctic temperature record by the World Meteorological Organization (WMO).
The temperature, more...
Better Understanding of Rooftop Solar PV Installation Can Support Increased Deployment
The deployment of rooftop solar photovoltaic (PV) systems has increased significantly in recent years thanks to their rapidly declining costs and supporting policies. Solar PV installations can be arranged in smaller configurations...
5 Reasons Why a Healthy Ocean is Linked to Human Rights
We live on a blue planet, with oceans and seas covering more than 70 percent of the Earth’s surface. Oceans feed us, regulate our climate, and generate most of the oxygen we...
Denmark Commits Millions to Vulnerable Farmers Through IFAD’s Climate Adaptation Fund
In the wake of COP26, which featured a strong call for increased finance to help the world’s poorest countries adapt to the impacts of climate change, Denmark today announced a contribution of...
Has the zombie apocalypse of forest fires begun?
We have all seen the dramatic, terrifying images of wildfires tearing at devastating speed through forested areas all over the world, from the Amazon to California and throughout Northern Africa and Europe. But...
New Secretariat of the World Network of Mountain Biosphere Reserves Announced
The Bureau of UNESCO’s Man and the Biosphere Programme has unanimously approved the nomination of the Research Centre for Eco-Environmental Sciences of the Chinese Academy of Sciences (China) and the Biosphere Reserve...
SunSmart UV App Protects Public Health
At the onset of the southern hemisphere summer, WMO is promoting a new SunSmart Global Ultraviolet Radiation mobile telephone App, which has been developed by leading health, radiation and weather organizations. It...
How Plastic is Infiltrating the World’s Soils
The images are sobering: dead sea birds and choking turtles caught in the plastic that is increasingly flooding into marine ecosystems. In many parts of the world, this type of plastic pollution has...
ABB to equip twelve Himalaya Shipping bulk carriers with shaft generator solutions for maximum efficiency
ABB will deliver an integrated scope of solutions with permanent magnet shaft generators at its core for twelve 210,000 dwt bulk carriers owned by the Bermuda-based Himalaya Shipping.
ABB technology will improve the...
Diy Wind Generator
The flexibility of renewable energy sources RESD facilitates global energy transition. So solar panels are installed on vast roofs of big companies and on small roofs of houses and buildings, while wind...
