Large sporting events often claim to be carbon neutral. But often this assertion is greenwashing, and it hides the incredible amount of pollution they actually create When the International Federation of Association Football (FIFA), the world’s governing body for soccer, proclaimed that the 2022 World Cup in Qatar would be “a fully carbon-neutral event,” the collective chortle …
No call for fossil fuel cuts, climate cash India on Tuesday told the Cop27 climate summit here in Egypt that it was making an “arduous effort” to battle climate change although “our contribution to the world’s cumulative emissions so far is less than 4 per cent”. The Union minister for environment, forest and climate change, …
AsiaOne has launched EarthOne, a new section dedicated to environmental issues — because we love the planet and we believe science. Find articles like this there. A new joint study by researchers in China and the Netherlands has shown that moving towards plant-based diets could help Europeans fight emerging food shortages and rising food prices caused by …
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SEOUL, South Korea, Nov. 13, 2022 /PRNewswire/ — Hyundai Motor Group (the Group) Executive Chair Euisun Chung, today delivered a keynote speech at the 2022 B20 Summit in Bali, Indonesia on the theme of ‘Energy Poverty and Accelerate a Just and Orderly Sustainable Energy Use.’ The B20 Summit, Nov. 13-14, facilitates a consultative body comprised of private economic groups and businesses …
Ninety percent of tropical deforestation is linked to agriculture, driven largely by palm oil, timber, beef and soy trade. Thus, commodity-driven trade is a significant driver of biodiversity loss for developing countries, as well as the global climate crisis. Because climate agreements and ongoing negotiations in the Convention on Biological Diversity (CBD) focus on nationally …
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