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How using space tech helps humanity move toward a sustainable future today

The Environmental Blog

On October 4, EOS Data Analytics, a global provider of AI-powered satellite imagery analytics, and Greenpeace Global Mapping Hub organized a webinar on applications of satellite remote sensing and imagery analytics in farming, environmental monitoring, and social and environmental initiatives.

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Measurement of persistent organic pollutants: Recent progress profiled

Envirotec Magazine

POPs are ubiquitous in our environment (water systems, soil, air and sediments) and they bioaccumulate, passing from species to species through the trophic chain, ultimately ending up in the human body. While this technique is powerful and effective, it is primarily used to analyze targeted compounds of interest.

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Government’s Net Zero Strategy is a major step forward, says CCC

Envirotec Magazine

The UK was the first major industrialised nation to set Net Zero into law – now we have policy plans to get us there. Ministers have made the big decisions – to decarbonise the power sector by 2035, to phase out petrol and diesel vehicles, to back heat pumps for homes. And they have proposed policies to do it. I applaud their ambition.

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Still in the dark about targets? Observers respond to the UK government’s Environment Bill

Envirotec Magazine

Intended to fill the policy vacuum emerging from the UK’s departure from the EU on 31 January, the Environment Bill has been eagerly anticipated, and seemingly gives government the power to set legally binding targets on all aspects of the environment in future. Soil and biodiversity.

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At COP28, Family Farmers Who Feed the World Went Unheard

DeSmogBlog

Farmers’ associations like La Via Campesina , which lobbies on behalf of smallholders, have been drowned out by the powerful conglomerates which make up ‘Big Ag’. Yes, digital tools like crop monitoring can help farmers become more efficient. Put simply, they are the bulwark against global hunger, yet they have received just 0.3

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'Five times the size of London each year': BNP Paribas tots up the biodiversity footprint of its investments

Business Green

Banking giant takes a stab at caclulating biodiversity impacts of its financing activities for first time, as it looks to meet requirements of new French nature reporting law.

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How to install high-powered EV charging now, without expensive and time consuming electrical service upgrades

Charged

Sponsored by Pioneer Power Solutions. As the deployment of high-powered EV chargers continues to grow across the US, the issue of connecting them into a facility’s existing electrical system becomes a complex problem. How to Instantly Increase Your Facility’s Electrical Service with E-Bloc!