Environment + Energy Leader

MARCH 8, 2023

As Canada and the United Kingdom ramp up their transition to clean technology, the two nations signed the Critical Minerals Supply Chain Dialogue on Monday. The post Canada and the UK Announce New Critical Minerals Supply Chain Dialogue appeared first on Environment + Energy Leader.

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E2 Law Blog

SEPTEMBER 14, 2021

Never has there been such global consensus on the requirement to reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions. There is rarely a single day without media reports of the current climate consequences being experienced due to global warming.

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Yale E360

MARCH 18, 2021

Greenhouse gas emissions in the United Kingdom have plunged by 51 percent since 1990 and the country is halfway toward slashing its CO2 emissions to zero by 2050, according to the Web site Carbon Brief. Read more on E360 ?.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 11, 2024

Two respected assessments of democracies around the world were released recently and, once again, our democracy in the United States scored poorly. Freedom House lowered the United States’s score by nearly 10 points between 2015 and 2023. Unfortunately, the United States is not currently the bastion of freedom it claims to be.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 20, 2022

The United Kingdom will send millions of dollars to East Africa to fund drought and flood relief efforts. The United Kingdom will send $22.9 An analysis from the BBC found that seven water companies the United Kingdom dumped raw sewage into U.K. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. 3,000 ILLEGAL SEWAGE DISCHARGES.

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Environmental Progress

JANUARY 18, 2024

Key findings of the study include: a) A connection between OSW vessel activity within ocean areas and whale deaths has been an ongoing concern in the United States since the 5-turbine Block Island wind facility was under construction in 2016. Sound from sonar surveys and wind turbine pile driving is recognized as harmful to marine mammals.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 20, 2024

The Food Foundation and Human Nature Places have received permission to proceed with a new development in Lewes, East Sussex, which is expected to be the most sustainable neighborhood in the United Kingdom.

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Circle of Blue

JANUARY 24, 2022

The New York Times reports that a top secret special operations unit in the Defense Department bombed the Tabqa Dam on March 26, 2017. In the United States, the rising cost of water in one major American city is hurting people of color. In the United Kingdom, water companies are again under scrutiny for improperly handling wastewater.

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Environmental News Bits

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

Yesterday, as Greece, Turkey, Bulgaria, and Hong Kong suffered deadly, record-shattering flooding, Hurricane Lee exploded into a ferocious Category 5 storm in the Atlantic, the United Kingdom hit its most extreme September heatwave, and a broiling Texas declared a power emergency, the United States Senate Committee on Banking, Housing, and Urban Affairs (..)

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 19, 2023

By Bob Berwyn For Chloe Brimicombe , a climate researcher at the University of Graz in Austria, the heat and drought statistics in today’s new European State of the Climate Report for 2022 evoked grim memories of the deadly heat waves last summer in Reading, her hometown in the United Kingdom, where people died from heat exposure while waiting for (..)

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 11, 2024

A new study with 100 senior executives who work for fashion brands and retailers in the United States, United Kingdom and Australia claims 88 percent of respondents plan to stop using plastic in packaging altogether, while 8 percent plan to abolish plastic within the next 12 months. Read the full story at Recycling Today.

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Environmental News Bits

JUNE 29, 2023

This series of ten short stand-alone videos from the United Kingdom Lubricants Association (UKLA) Metalworking Fluid Product Stewardship Group (MWFPSG) supports and encourages greater compliance in the safe management of metalworking fluids.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 10, 2022

Wild bison, absent from the United Kingdom for thousands of years, are being reintroduced to a forest near Canterbury, England to help restore the woods to their natural state. Read the full story at e360.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 13, 2022

It’s a joint venture between NASA and the national space agencies of France, Canada, and the United Kingdom. Last week, the United Nations held a special summit to highlight the importance of groundwater, the source for about half of the world’s drinking water. The mission will launch before sunrise on December 15.

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Environmental News Bits

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Scientists in the United Kingdom have assessed the financial viability of a rooftop PV project for Bath Abbey and found that it could become profitable after 13 years. Read the full story at pv magazine. Churches use energy mostly during the day, which makes them ideal buildings to deploy solar panels. Read more →

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AUGUST 3, 2021

Activists in the United Kingdom are asking government officials to create a flash flood warning system as extreme weather events become more frequent. More than half of rainwater harvesting systems in Gurugram, India , that have been checked in the last two weeks are clogged and dysfunctional, an internal report finds. 54 PERCENT.

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Environmental News Bits

MARCH 7, 2024

Sonichem has received a United Kingdom-backed grant to develop and commercialize carbon-neutral resins as an alternative to plastics and foams used in automotive applications. Read the full story at Environment + Energy Leader.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

MARCH 24, 2023

When diplomacy needs backup, countries turn to resolve their disputes at the ICJ, the United Nations’ principal judicial organ, to set the tone for international law. Nations large and small contributed to the current resolution, including Australia, one of the world’s largest fossil fuel exporters, and the United Kingdom.

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 5, 2021

A water utility in the United Kingdom discharged wastewater into a protected river for more than three years. Drought is causing a shortage of feed for cattle in parts of Canada and the northern United States. Wastewater treatment plants in the United States are in a race against time. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN.

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Inhabitant

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

United Kingdom floral company Flying Flowers is trying to raise bee awareness by building the world’s first bee-tirement home. The dollhouse for bees is gimmicky and too cute for words, but the company’s effort makes important points about our reliance on bees.

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Circle of Blue

OCTOBER 14, 2021

The United Kingdom Environment Agency issues a stark warning to world leaders. “It In the weeks leading up to the United nation’s annual climate conference in Glasgow, the British Environment Agency released a report calling on world leaders to take bold action against climate change. ON THE RADAR.

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Arnold Porter

FEBRUARY 22, 2023

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Circle of Blue

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

Not one English river is in a healthy state… People want to see fast and bolder action ministers.” – Luke Pollard, the shadow environment secretary in the United Kingdom. Members of Parliament in the United Kingdom passed an amendment this week aimed at gradually reducing sewage discharges from storm overflows, The Guardian reports.

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Frontiers

OCTOBER 21, 2021

We are proud to announce that Professor Themis Prodromakis , Field Chief Editor of Frontiers in Nanotechnology and Specialty Chief Editor for Nanodevices section , has been awarded the 2021 Blavatnik Awards for Young Scientists in the United Kingdom in the Physical Sciences and Engineering Category.

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Inside Climate News

DECEMBER 11, 2021

Researchers at the University of Exeter in the United Kingdom sought to find out whether reefs in Indonesia. Fish whoop, purr and grunt while shrimp snap. But around parts of the reef where coral has been violently destroyed by dynamite fishing, the waters are silent.

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Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 7, 2021

The United Kingdom prepares for Storm Barra as many homes still recover from another major storm. More than 1,600 homes were still disconnected from heat and hot water on Monday in northeast England after Storm Arwen hit the United Kingdom nearly two weeks ago. YOUR GLOBAL RUNDOWN. 1,600 HOMES.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

AUGUST 15, 2023

Six Western nations–Italy, France, Germany, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, and Japan’s Prime Minister Fumio Kishida, who had survived a murder attempt by a fisherman one month prior, gathered to strengthen their ties. The death was brought by the United States dropping of the bomb …over human beings.”

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Legal Planet

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Research by ecologists and economists in recent years has demonstrated the extremely high costs of replacing many of these services if they were to fail — on the order of many billions of dollars in the United States for pollination alone. The United States has also been active.

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Environmental News Bits

NOVEMBER 9, 2021

From Net Zero Teesside in the United Kingdom to Houston’s Carbon Capture Hub, a new generation of carbon campuses — where carbon dioxide emissions are captured, used in products and stored underground — is coming online. Read the full story at GreenBiz.

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Corp Watch

SEPTEMBER 30, 2023

UK Top Court Allows Mozambique New Trial in “Tuna Bonds” Affair pratap Sat, 09/30/2023 - 20:32 [link] The Supreme Court of the United Kingdom ruled Wednesday that Mozambique may proceed with its case against shipbuilder Privinvest and others in a so-called “tuna bond” corruption scandal, wit Wallabag ID 17370465

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Circle of Blue

AUGUST 2, 2021

In May, the finance minister said the kingdom aims to raise around $38 billion through privatizations over the next four years. —— In the United States, water storage in the country’s second-largest reservoir fell to an all-time low last week, offering yet another example of the drying of the American West.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

JULY 17, 2023

The United States maintains a nuclear weapons arsenal under the assumption this upholds national security. However, the United States, like many other countries with nuclear weapons, routinely chooses to prioritize nukes over human health and community wellbeing even within the country’s borders.

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Arnold Porter

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

This newsletter focuses on key virtual and digital health and telehealth-related developments in the United States, United Kingdom, and European Union in the healthcare, regulatory, privacy, and corporate transactions space. In this issue: US News. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) updates.

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Environmental News Bits

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Nestle SA has begun pilot testing in the United Kingdom for a new sustainable agriculture solution that uses cocoa shells to create a low-carbon fertilizer. Read the full story at Food Business News.

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Union of Concerned Scientists

APRIL 1, 2024

Every Chinese head of state since 1842, when the United Kingdom defeated Imperial China in the Opium War , shared the same concerns. He addresses more general concerns about the combat readiness, ideological orientation, and human qualities of Chinese military officers. Xi did not say anything new, specific, or surprising.

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Inside Climate News

APRIL 16, 2022

Hosts Richard Madeley and Ranvir Singh reported on a shortage of fuel and panic buying in the United Kingdom o.

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Environmental News Bits

AUGUST 9, 2021

The United Kingdom currently has one of the highest rates of open-access publication in the world, with many researchers posting their research papers on websites that make them publicly available for free. Read the full story in Science.

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