Energy Progress Report: SDG7 is not to be reached by 2030
Despite accelerated progress over the past decade, the world will fall short of ensuring universal access to affordable, reliable, sustainable, and modern energy by 2030 unless efforts are scaled up significantly, Tracking SDG 7: The Energy Progress Report reveals. It was released today by the International Energy Agency (IEA), the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA), […]
Interdependence of human well-being and biodiversity
How much do we know about benefits that biodiversity provides us day-to-day? Or do we only think of it when facing extraordinary circumstances? Don’t we enjoy the recently rejuvenated rivers and seas, the fresh air, striving greenery and enhanced hearing of birds’ songs in urban silence? Biodiversity is the ingredient of all of our life […]
GGF celebrates 10 years of green impact with renewables portfolio of over 1 GW
The Green for Growth Fund has so far supported the development of over 1 GW in renewable energy capacity. Southeastern Europe accounts for two thirds of the portfolio that GGF built until its tenth anniversary at the end of 2019, matched by the share of primary energy savings. The Green for Growth Fund said it […]
Three major environmental challenges clim@ 2020 finalists address
We are only two weeks away from the clim@ 2020 pitching event to select the winner of this year’s competition. Fifteen finalists from the whole world will pitch their innovative projects and business ideas to provide solutions for some of the most pressing environmental and climate challenges: waste disposal and pollution, global warming and emissions, […]
Our health depends on nature’s health – on May 22 world marks its biodiversity day
The slogan for the International Day for Biological Diversity 2020 is “Our solutions are in nature” and it will be marked only online. The emphasis is on human health and how much it depends on biodiversity, with increasing evidence that imbalances in ecosystems increase the risk of diseases like the one caused by the coronavirus. […]
Households in UK are earning money by consuming green electricity
The rise in the share of renewables in the system requires more flexibility to keep the grid in balance. This spring the energy system in the UK was occasionally challenged by the fall in consumption due to COVID-19 and increased production in solar and wind power plants. In order to help overcome the issue, supply […]
Preventing illegal wildlife trade helps avoid zoonotic diseases
COVID-19 is a deadly zoonotic disease and there is an urgent need to reduce the risk of similar outbreaks. Preventing illegal wildlife trade is a good place to start. “Illegal wildlife trade contributes to habitat destruction, which removes necessary buffer zones between humans and wild fauna, making it more likely that animal pathogens come into […]
Finance in Motion releases impact investment report Road to Impact
In 2019 Finance in Motion advised funds which had facilitated over 70,000 new loans to small businesses and households and were helping prevent the emission of more than 870,000 tons of CO2 every year, according to its annual impact investment report Road to Impact. The asset manager said that by the end of last year […]
