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A year after the Norilsk disaster, where are Russia’s oil risks and what needs to be done?
Almost everyone in Russia has heard about the Norilsk accident. In May 2020, more than 20 thousand tonnes of diesel fuel seeped into the soil and water on the Taymyr peninsula in...
Taking the Pressure off the Water Industry with Digitalization
Traditional water and wastewater utility systems weren’t built for the dramatically changing stresses of climate change and rapid urbanization. Therefore, the risk that ageing infrastructure brings – both in terms of potential...
The Newspaper Today, Pencil Tomorrow
One film encouraged a married couple from Smederevska Palanka to change their business. It gave them the idea to step out of the hospitality industry into production based on the principles of...
Chernobyl: The Next Phase
At 01:23:40 on 26 April 1986, the failure of a routine test at the Chernobyl Nuclear Power Plant in Ukraine, then part of the Soviet Union, caused reactor 4 to explode, releasing...
EBRD and EU Help Serbia’s Bel-Plast to Become More Energy Efficient
How an investment in modern equipment led to significant savings
Thirty years ago, the Špijunović family started a small home business. Today, the company’s facilities span 4,000 m2. Bel-Plast, in the Serbian city...
ABB Urges Greater Adoption of High-Efficiency Motors and Drives to Combat Climate Change – Global Electricity Consumption to be Reduced by 10 percent
In a new whitepaper published today, ABB reveals potential for significant energy efficiency improvements in industry and infrastructure enabled by the latest and most high-efficiency motors and variable speed drives. ABB calls...
At the Heart of Technological Transformation and Modernization
Spain is one of the European countries most concerned about climate change. The southern areas of this Mediterranean country are characterized by rather harsh climatic conditions, such as high temperatures, droughts, scarce...
Make Charles Darwin Proud: Save the Galapagos From Your Living Room
The Galapagos Islands, off the west coast of Ecuador, are among the most important bastions of nature on our planet. The diversity of life here--hammerhead sharks, Galapagos penguins and blue-footed boobies among...
Designing Safe and Sustainable Products Requires a New Approach for Chemicals
The recent European Union chemicals strategy for sustainability aims to ensure that chemicals make a positive contribution to society without harming the environment and people’s health. A European Environment Agency (EEA) briefing,...
ABB to Power South Korea’s First Domestic Zero-Emissions Ferry
The new ferry represents the first commitment by South Korean authorities to a plan which will see 140 state-owned conventionally powered vessels replaced with those operating on cleaner alternatives by 2030, in...
EBRD, EU and Donors Support SMEs and Green Homes in North Macedonia
The European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD) is providing two loans of €3.5 million combined to ProCredit Bank Skopje in order to support small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) to reach EU standards...
Development of Electromobility in Serbia: Stairway to Heaven or Highway to Hell?
Achieving sustainability in transportation is based on increasing its cost-effectiveness while at the same time increasing the energy efficiency, reducing the negative impact on the environment, preventing (or at least limiting) the...
Here’s Why the Business of Sustainability Has Come of Age
In 2019, impact investing was a $715 billion global market. Looking beyond the pure financial heft of the market, the number accurately reflects the growing reality among corporates and investors who are...
Impact of COVID-19 on People’s Livelihoods, Their Health and Our Food Systems
The COVID-19 pandemic has led to a dramatic loss of human life worldwide and presents an unprecedented challenge to public health, food systems and the world of work. The economic and social...
Oil Spill in Mauritius Calls for More Efforts to Safeguard Coral Reef Ecosystems
On July 25, 2020, a Japanese cargo ship struck a reef on the southeast coast of Mauritius, leaking tons of oil into coral reefs, pristine turquoise water lagoons and unique ecosystems of...
From Farm to Street – Animal Health and Welfare at the Heart of the European Union Policies
We are still getting used to the absence of the purple cow from the packaging of popular chocolates and the faces of Gerda, Muccha and Marisa, wondering if their predecessor went on...
