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4 Inspiring Climate Action Projects to Brighten up Your Day
While the search is on for this year’s UN ‘Lighthouse Activities’ – the world’s best and brightest climate projects – we take a look back at some of the game-changing projects that made it on to the 2015 list. Each year Momentum for Change, an initiative led by the UN’s climate change office, showcases some...
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Got an Amazing Climate Project? The UN Wants to Help You With PR
https://vimeo.com/78705262 Are you part of a women-led climate action start-up? Or are you successfully financing climate innovations, or maybe you’ve developed an ICT solution that’s helping tackle climate change? The UN wants to help you with publicity. Momentum for Change is an initiative spearheaded by the UN’s climate change office, and shines a light on...
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Success of Europe’s Clean Air Policies Reveals Full Extent of Arctic Warming
As investors increasingly pull out of coal and shift towards renewable energy, new research shows how the drastic improvement in air quality over the previous decades has also revealed the true extent of the rise of Arctic temperatures since the 1980s. Researchers from Stockholm University and the Norwegian Meteorological Institute say that their surprising finding...
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Ontario Injects $100 Million in Cleantech Jobs
The Canadian province of Ontario has announced it will invest nearly 100 million Canadian dollars into new greenhouse gas emission reducing projects. The investment is aimed at boosting energy efficiency, and jobs in Ontario’s innovation sector. Provincial premier Kathleen Wynne was at Morgan Solar‘s solar panel plant in Ontario to announce the cash injection, which...
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How to trigger a cascade of tipping points to accelerate the net zero transition
The world is heading towards a series of climatic tipping points that risk causing irreversible damage to our planetary life-support systems. Despite political and business commitments, the world remains off-track for meeting our climate targets, with global temperatures already 1.2°C above pre-industrial levels and raising doubts about our ability to limit the temperature increase to...
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How can technology-driven solutions change the way Africa addresses the climate crisis
Africa’s share of global emissions accounts for about 2 per cent of the world’s total. Yet it is one of the regions most negatively affected by climate change. Climate resilience and the ability of the people to live through the climate crisis are at the heart of the climate tech efforts. But the solutions must...
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A just transformation for Rugeley, as the power station comes down
As carbon-intensive facilities wind down, systems innovators are looking for opportunities to put these assets to a different use, including as test beds for low-carbon living At 10:00 a.m. on 13 February, a central section of the Rugeley Power Station came crumbling to the ground. Yet, this was no accident. Rather, it was, to use...
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Spacious 500-acre park provides green backdrop to inspiring climate change art
“Indicators: Artists on Climate Change” is an environmental series from over a dozen artists. The exhibition opened in May and is being shown at the Storm King Art Center—a 500-acre sculpture park in New York’s Hudson Valley. Consisting of both indoor and outdoor installations, the series explores the impacts of climate change and incorporates scientific,...
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This week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories – 7 June
Could this pioneering ‘liquid air’ project can help store excess electricity? Who is transforming air pollution into talk-provoking art? And, how can buildings go net-zero emissions by 2030? This, and more, in the week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories. 1. ‘Outperforming’: Green economy market cap now matches fossil fuel industry There is a growing body...
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This week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories – 31 May
Could eating algae help reduce food emissions? Could coding help countries become more climate resilient? And, what will the EU’s future targets for renewables This, and more, in the week’s ten biggest climate innovation stories. New tech could turn algae into the climate’s slimy saviour The new hope for algae is that they could rebalance...
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