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“Climate change triggered glacier retreats pose a big threat to sustainability of springs which are beyond the control of local communities to manage,” added Arun Kansal, professor and head, Regional Water Studies, TERI School of Advanced Study, New Delhi.
Ice stupas, a form of glacial grafting in which natural processes can exclusively shape their growth, partnered with support from local indigenous populations in higher altitude regions threatened by global warming, could provide a simple water storage method -- and the opening of an exciting field of holistic, aesthetic and technical inquiry.
The Construction Industry Council (CIC) of Hong Kong just announced its CIC Carbon Assessment Tool (CAT), a means of evaluating carbon emissions prior to construction, has now been integrated into the BEAM Plus New Buildings version 1.1 and version 1.2 (BEAM Plus NB)
In a message pointed to India’s Prime Minister Narendra Modi, UN secretary general António Guterres warned that investing in expansion of fossil fuels industry such as the coal mining sector would mean more deaths and illness and rising healthcare costs.
In a major breakthrough, Aalto University researchers have developed a photovoltaic device with an external quantum efficiency of 132 per cent.
Researchers have discovered a highly effective way of converting carbon dioxide, the most common greenhouse gas in Earth's atmosphere, into ethanol, an important industrial chemical that is used as a solvent in the synthesis of other organic chemicals, and as an additive to automotive gasoline.
A $16 billion project is in the offing to export Asutralian solar power to Singapore and then other cities in Asia through the sea. Experts are questioning the fiscal viability but believe it is possible.
African Development Bank and Other Multilateral Banks Invested $61.6B in Climate Investments in 2019
The 2019 edition of the Joint Report on Multilateral Development Bank's Climate Finance showed a total of $61.6 billion was spent by the this group of powerful "transnational" investment banks during the calendar year 2019.