Climate change is an emergency
On December 2, New Zealand declared a climate-change emergency and committed to a carbon-neutral government by 2025. A motion tabled in the country’s Parliament recognised ‘the devastating impact that volatile and extreme weather will have on New Zealand and the wellbeing of New
Ideas to make mobility more mobile and less troublesome
Three solutions aimed at solving Bengaluru’s traffic woes were proposed at the Mobility Champions programme, hosted in October by Young Leaders for Active Citizenship (YLAC) in partnership with the #BengaluruMoving campaign, World Resources Institute India (WRI), and Let Me Breathe (LMB). These solutions
China to become carbon-neutral in 40 years
China has pledged to become carbon-neutral by 2060, as per a recorded video message to the UN General Assembly by the country’s leader, Xi Jinping. He also reiterated his previous commitment that the country will aim to halt the rise of its carbon
Plastic plastic everywhere, no water to drink
A new study has found that about 14 million tonnes of microplastic reside on the ocean floor. This conservative estimate was reached by the Commonwealth Scientific and Industrial Research Organization, or C.S.I.R.O., Australia’s national science agency. This estimate ranges from 9.25 million to
The disastrous effects of climate change
A new UN report to mark the International Day for Disaster Risk Reduction was released on 13 October 2020. It confirmed that the doubling of natural disasters in the past 20 years is largely attributable to climate change. The report by the UN
The biggest cities in the world unite for a green cause
On 22nd September, 12 cities pledged to divest from fossil fuel companies and advocate for greater sustainable investment, as part of their commitment to accelerating a green and just recovery from Covid-19. Part of the C40, which is a ‘network of the world’s
The one per cent are occupying the carbon budget
The richest one per cent of the world’s population were responsible for more than twice the amount of carbon dioxide emissions as the poorer half of the world from 1990 to 2015, according to a new report by Oxfam and the Stockholm Environment
Detel: A tree for every customer
Detel Foundation, the CSR wing of Detel, has announced its collaboration with Grow-Trees whereby they will plant saplings on behalf of customers on the sale of each product across categories such as Detel TV, Detel washing machine, and Detel EV. Grow-Trees will provide
Rising sea levels now an inevitability
The Greenland Ice Sheet has melted to a point of no return. In a paper published in Nature, researchers at Ohio State University found that even if global warming were to stop today, the sheet would still disintegrate. Greenland’s ice sheet releases more
Blue Dart: Greening up the Kanha-Pench Corridor
Blue Dart Express Ltd, one of India’s leading express logistics service providers and part of the Deutsche Post DHL Group (DPDHL), has announced that it will plant 111,000 trees on the Kanha-Pench Corridor in CY 2020. This will be done in collaboration with