Kategoria: Week’s highlights
Trump administration opens sensitive Arctic areas to oil development
The Trump administration on Thursday released its plan to open environmentally sensitive areas in Arctic Alaska to oil development, overturning some protections that go back…
Brexit brings no benefits, no-deal will hit manufacturing hard: report
An EU-UK no-trade deal would have a big negative effect on British manufacturing, says a report Wednesday, particularly on volume car production, as it tries…
Pandemic recovery the focus for EU’s innovation performance
Europe’s innovation performance continues to improve, surpassing the United States, an EU report said Tuesday, with the focus of research activities being on overcoming the…
Analysis: Are we falling back in love with plastic amid COVID-19?
We have previously spoken about the potential green opportunities presented by this unprecedented crisis. As the world literally closed down earlier this year, global carbon…
Rape conviction rates rise 75% in Sweden after change in the law
Rape conviction rates in Sweden have risen 75% in two years following a major change in the law, spurring calls on Monday for other countries…
Amazon forest fires could increase risk of serious coronavirus infections
An intense season of fires in the Amazon rainforest this year could overwhelm health systems and lead to unnecessary deaths, including of coronavirus, as pollution…
Towards innovative, conflict-sensitive and human rights-based approaches to forest monitoring
The Governments of Myanmar and Finland today launched a trailblazing project designed to allow for monitoring of forests in a manner that is sensitive to…
Germany to contribute 42% more to EU budget: report
The European Commission would like to see €13 billion more per year from Europe’s largest economy. EU leaders, including Angela Merkel, are meeting Friday to…
Systemic racism slows economic growth: Dallas Fed chief Kaplan
Systemic racism and high unemployment levels among black and Hispanic Americans create a drag on the U.S. economy, Dallas Federal Reserve President Robert Kaplan said…
New Climate Atlas report shows how climate change will affect Australian wine regions
A world-first research document about to be released has detailed how Australia’s famous winegrowing regions will be forced to adapt due to climate change. Commissioned…
EU chemicals and waste laws must be harmonised, chemical recycling trade body says
European definitions for when recycled waste is considered a product again must be harmonised, because there is a ”lack of alignment” between EU chemicals and…
Small islands may not disappear under rising seas, researchers find
In recent years, the leaders and inhabitants of many small-island nations like Kiribati and Tuvalu have warned that climate change is an existential threat to…
J&J moves up start of coronavirus vaccine human trials to July
Johnson & Johnson moved up the start of human clinical trials for its experimental vaccine against the highly contagious coronavirus by two months to the…
Act now to avert COVID-19 global food emergency: Guterres
Although the COVID-19 pandemic could push nearly 50 million more people into extreme poverty, this and other dire impacts of the crisis can be avoided…
OECD and UN institutions demand green economic recovery from Covid-19
Influential group of institutions urge governments to ’insert the DNA of a green economy into all recovery efforts’. The growing global consensus on the need to…
The Brief: Consultations begin on EU scheme of minimum wage
The European Commission launched a new consultation with social partners on Wednesday to ensure a minimum wage for all workers which it argues is necessary…
George Floyd death: Obama calls protests against racial injustice ’powerful’ and ’transformative’
Former US President Barack Obama commended young people for ”communicating a sense of urgency” in protests across the nation over the death of George Floyd….
City centres to see ’radical’ redesign amid coronavirus
Grammy award-winner Petula Clark famously sang that the ”lights are much brighter” downtown, but the coronavirus pandemic may change city centres across the world, as…
‘Stronger response’ key, to build a safer and more stable future: Guterres
UN chief António Guterres is calling for greater unity and solidarity to defeat COVID-19 and build a better world in the wake of the global…
First-time young black women protesters say they are ’done being silent’
U.S. law student Brieana Gillyard was a child when Sean Bell, Eric Garner and other unarmed black men were killed at the hands of police,…
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