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Businesses Taking Lead in Climate Response
Spurred by consumer demand for eco-friendly practices, many businesses across the U.S. are moving aggressively to reduce their carbon footprint, including a major embrace...
Africa’s Answer to Climate and Weather Challenges: The Africa Hydromet Program
Tesfaye, a grain and legume farmer in rural Ethiopia, takes a break from guiding his grazing cattle to analyze the skies in Chanco, north...
Advancing Africa with Renewable Energy Auctions
Driven by a growing interest in renewable energy technologies as a competitive mechanism for price determination auctions have become the fastest growing renewable energy...
Cooler buildings and lower bills in summer thanks to green walls and roofs
A 15% cut in the energy bill with a 40% reduction of the direct solar radiation in dwellings and a lower indoor temperature by...
New Report Looks at Past Disasters to Prepare for the Future
The great disasters of the past – like the eruption of Vesuvius in 79 AD or the hurricane that devastated Santo Domingo in 1930...
Geothermal Energy is on a Hot Path
Geothermal energy development has followed the same storyline for many decades: a low-carbon energy source that can offer reliable and sustainable baseload power, whose...
Where are we on the road to clean energy?
All around the world, sustainable energy transitions are underway. But how far we have progressed? It’s clear that action needs to be accelerated, but...
90 per cent of the planet is breathing in polluted air
Air pollution claims seven million lives a year, UN health experts said on Wednesday, amid new data showing that the problem affects nine out...
In London, a neighbourhood plan with global ambitions
Simon Birkett is on a mission to reduce the toxic levels of air pollution in his beloved London. A former HSBC banker, Simon was inspired to take on the cause full-time...
Innovation and imagination: The keys to a sustainable urban future
What makes a city more resilient? In a world faced with the twin challenges of increasing urbanization and climate change, it is paramount to...