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What Happens to Wind Turbine Blades at the End of Their Life Cycle?

Union of Concerned Scientists

While today’s carbon fiber and fiberglass require lots of energ y to produce and are hard to recycle , incorporating more bio-materials into their composites and developing new recycling technologies can reduce their footprint. Some strategies include: Ensure an ethical, sustainable supply of balsa wood.

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Frontiers community engagement update – fall 2023 

Frontiers

The team behind the blog has had engaging discussions with each of the women, discovering how their work contributes to the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (UN SDGs). Over 71 million volunteers have collected 325 tons of waste since the first official event in 2018, with numbers growing each year.

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New Associate Editor: Zhiyong “Jason” Ren

Water Research & Technology

We are delighted to announce that Jason Ren (Princeton University, USA) is joining the Associate Editor team for Environmental Science: Water Research & Technology. Jason has been an Editorial Board member of the journal since 2018. Jason is a professor of Civil and Environmental Engineering at Princeton University, USA.

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What next for India and coal?

Physics World

Rhadika Khosla , a researcher at the Oxford India Centre for Sustainable Development, said researchers need to better understand the amount of carbon “locked in” to different development trajectories. Dubash’s work bridges the gap between climate modellers and the policy community by unpacking these assumptions.

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Canada joins historic commitment to end international fossil fuel finance by end of 2022

Enviromental Defense

billion a year 2018-2020, the amount that flowed internationally and therefore is fully covered by this commitment is somewhere between CAD 2 billion to 9 billion a year for 2018-2020. . Instead of continuing to fund oil and gas Canada must fund climate solutions that support developing countries, communities, and workers.” .

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Sounding Green vs Being Green: How to finance sustainability?

HumanNature

The Sustainable Development Goals outlined by the UN Foundation in 2015 not only provide a guideline for an ideal future, but also illustrate the multi-pronged dilemma of emerging economies. “A climate investment trap in developing economies.” Nature Clim Change 8, 161–165 (2018). ” (2021).

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Analysis: Brazil plans to continue investing in coal-fired power despite global shifts

A Greener Life

The programme has ruled out using funds from the National Bank for Economic and Social Development (BNDES), as the lender has been closing its doors to financing coal-fired plants since 2018. This technology is the way out.”. Protestors demonstrate in Glasgow, where COP26 has taken held this November.

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