Your electronics could soon be powered by an ultra cheap sea salt battery. ‘Significant breakthrough’: This new sea salt battery has 4 times the capacity of lithium to encourage our trading partners to de-carbonise their industry', explains MEP Mohammed Chahim from the Socialists and Democrats Party. This CBAM scheme 'will be a crucial pillar of European climate policies. Known as the 'Carbon Border Adjustment Mechanism' (CBAM), the agreement will cover industrial imports from the bloc's 27 member states, targeting the highest polluting products first. The European Union has announced a deal to impose a carbon dioxide tariff on imports of polluting goods such as steel and cement. EU to impose world-first ‘carbon tariff’ on environmentally damaging imports The community believes in the sanctity of all life, shunning meat and avoiding felling living trees. Members of the Hindu sect - which has more than 1.5 million devotees - have been fighting to protect the environment for more than 500 years. The Bishnoi community are India’s original eco-warriors. India’s original eco-warriors: Meet the Bishnoi community who won’t cut down living trees This (literal) green energy could enable the development of future sustainable technologies, researchers hope. Plant power: Scientists generate electricity from a shrub in renewables breakthroughĬould we one day harness plants - as well as wind and solar - to generate clean power? It might seem like the stuff of sci-fi, but scientists have successfully used a succulent plant to create a living ‘bio-solar cell’ that runs on photosynthesis. The company's founders have just won the Earthshot Prize in the ‘Build a Waste-Free World’ category, receiving £1 million (€1.2 million) to continue their efforts. It's totally natural, completely biodegradable and can be used to make a range of packaging from bubbles to hold liquid to linings for food containers. London-based start-up Notpla believes it has an answer to our plastic waste problem: a plastic alternative made from seaweed and plants. This start-up has just won £1m for its seaweed-based plastic alternative These calculations show how a renewable energy transition would save everyone moneyĭecarbonising the energy system is a crucial way to reduce emissions and stem climate change.īut it’s also going to save us a lot of money.Īccording to Oxford University researchers, ending fossil fuel use by 2050 will save the world at least $12 trillion (€11.3 trillion). The UN biodiversity conference - known as COP15 - has been considered the “last chance” for nature's recovery. It is the most significant effort yet to protect the world’s land and oceans and provide finance to prevent biodiversity loss in the developing world.

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