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How Food Waste is Degrading the Environment

The Environmental Blog

Homes generate approximately 61% of this waste, 26% by food service, and 13% by retail. All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming.

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'Half measures won't halve emissions': The green economy reacts to IPCC's climate solutions report

Business Green

And so today's report's conclusion that while the scale of the challenge is monumental - the world must peak emissions by 2025, before halving them by 2030 - it also encouragingly makes clear that the world already has all of the tools it needs to achieve these aims, in order to keep the chances of limiting global warming to 1.5C

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SDG15: The fight for life on land

Business Green

Progress on protecting life on land has been agonisingly slow, as deforestation and habitat loss has accelerated, but hopes remain that a step change in global land management can yet be engineered. Meanwhile, product innovation in everything from packaging to proteins is helping to curb land use impacts. SDG 15 to the rescue?

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Global Briefing: US Senate backs plan to make daylight saving time permanent

Business Green

Campaigners maintain the move could improve health, boost economic activity, and lead to lower energy demand and carbon emissions. European governments continued to ramp up their clean energy plans in response to the Kremlin's threat to EU energy supplies, with the Dutch government announcing it is to double its 2030 wind offshore targets.

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How can the world kick its oil habit?

Mr. Sustainability

The dark, often viscous liquid is the single biggest contributor to the world’s energy mix, at 34 per cent of consumption, followed by coal at 27 per cent and natural gas at 24 per cent. Our usage has jumped 62 per cent over the course of a few decades — up from 61.6 And can any drop in oil usage happen quickly enough? (5)

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How 4 Top US Utilities Are Grappling With the Energy Transition (or Not)

GreenTechMedia

The past decade has been a wild ride for America's massive electricity sector. Utilities will be front and center in America's efforts to combat global warming, from drastically cutting their own carbon emissions to assisting other sectors, like transportation, in cutting theirs. Today, no U.S. Today, no U.S.

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? Methane monitoring goes stratospheric #185

Climate Tech VC

Responsible for nearly a third of global warming and a quarter of global energy, methane matters. Methane tracking takes off  Global methane tracker (Source: IEA ) Climate tech has methane on the brain these days, and for good reason. On the ground. Made to measure. The IRS just called. Super duper emitters.