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 are aimed at decongestion, first- and last-mile connectivity, and non-motorised transport (NMT)…
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 emissions by 2030, which was made as part of the Paris Agreement….
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 15.87 million tons of microplastics or 8.4 to 14.4 million tonnes. Microplastics…
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 Office for Disaster Risk Reduction (UNDRR) stated that 7,348 major disaster events…
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 megacities committed to addressing climate change,’ this declaration represents over 36 million…
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 Institute. In fact, while carbon emissions rose by 60 per cent over…
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 a token of appreciation to customers with a personalised certificate highlighting how…
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 than 280 billion metric tons of melting ice into the ocean each…
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 Grow-Trees. The 111,000 trees are expected to offset 2,222,000 kg of carbon…
A memorandum of understanding (MoU) has been signed between Hindalco Industries Ltd, one of the global leaders in aluminium and copper, and UltraTech Cement Ltd, India’s largest manufacturer of cement, as per which Hindalco will deliver 1.2 million metric tonnes of red mud (also known as bauxite residue) annually to UltraTech’s 14 plants located across…
