Consume less meat and dairy products in the world’s richest countries would help reduce by more than 60% polluting emissions during agricultural production, in addition to improving the health of the population, indicates an investigation published in the scientific journal “Nature Foods”. “If we reduce meat consumption, it also ‘frees up’ land to grow other […]
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2021, the year that reactivated environmental ambition
The year that is now ending has allowed us to recover the initiative to formalize new environmental agreements, most of them crystallized in the COP26 that was held in Glasgow during the month of November, after a 2020 at half gas due to the restrictions generated by COVID-19. In fact, the climate summit was delayed […]
What to watch for in climate finance next year
The green finance industry continued to grow rapidly this year. After circumventing the COVID-19 and have been the center of attention in the COP26, it seems unlikely that the trend will slow down in 2022. But what can finance, whether public or private, do about it? climate change? To what extent can they drive action, […]
Pure air or coal? The thorny dilemma facing India
Thick gray dust floats over the Singrauli open pit coal mine in India, where gigantic excavators carry the fuel that contributes to economic growth, but also to the country’s environmental pollution. Singrauli’s open pit mines illustrate the dilemma facing the world’s second most populous country and explain its resistance to the phase-out of coal, proposed […]
Investor group warns that livestock industry must do more to reduce methane emissions
A group of investors He said the global push to reduce methane emissions and end deforestation runs the risk of being held back by weak efforts by companies in the livestock sector. More than 100 countries pledged to reduce methane emissions by 30% and to halt and reverse deforestation by 2030 in last month’s climate […]
Bolivia chairs forum of gas exporting countries to define strategies
Bolivia on Tuesday presided over the virtual ministerial meeting of the main producers of gas of the world in which eleven countries participated in order to share experiences on exploration and production and define strategies for the development of the hydrocarbon industry. This is the 23rd Ministerial Meeting of the Gas Exporting Countries Forum (GECF), […]
Bloomberg Editorial: COP26 Achieved Less Than The World Needs
The United Nations COP26 summit, billed as the “last and greatest hopeTo keep the ambitious climate goals alive, it made progress on many fronts, despite ending on a note of disappointment. The commitment of “phase out“Subsidies on coal and fossil fuels were changed in the final moments to a promise of”phase out“Coal and rid the […]
Maritime decarbonization plan targets goods and minerals
Shipping routes for the transport of iron ore from Australia to Japan and containerized goods from East Asia to Europe are at the center of plans to reduce maritime carbon emissions by 2030. At least six of those corridors should be established by the middle of this decade, according to the Clydebank Declaration on Green […]
COP26: summit approves agreement that keeps the objective of limiting global warming alive
Updated on 11/13/2021 03:52 pm The climate summit of the HIM-HER-IT, better known as the COP26, has approved this Saturday a decisive agreement to keep alive the goal of limiting global warming by 1.5 degrees by 2100 with respect to pre-industrial levels. In a dramatic finale, the conference president, Alok Sharma, announced that the Glasgow […]
India defends at COP26 the “right” of developing countries to fossil fuels
Updated on 11/13/2021 12:20 pm Developing countries also have the “right” to emit greenhouse gases. greenhouse effect and they cannot be asked to give up coal and hydrocarbons, defended on Saturday the representative of India in the COP26 making clear the lack of agreement. Indian Environment Minister Bhupender Yadav argued that less industrialized nations, with […]