Google to help cities drastically reduce carbon emissions
Google announced that it will help more than 500 cities and local governments reduce 1 gigaton of carbon emissions per year by 2030. Tech giant Google has made a bold urban promise as part...
Tagged: carbon footprint
Homes of wealthy Americans have 25% higher carbon emissions than lower-income residences
The homes of wealthy Americans generate about 25% more greenhouse gases than residences in lower-income neighborhoods, says the University of Michigan. In the nation’s most affluent suburbs, those emissions can be as much as...
Microsoft announces ambitious plans to be carbon negative by 2030
Tech giant Microsoft has announced that it will be carbon negative by 2030, and by 2050 remove from the environment all the carbon the company has ever emitted since it was founded. Global tech...
Sustainability initiatives lead to increased happiness, study finds
Climate activists who joined in grassroots movements managed to cut their carbon footprints and were still happier than their non-activist peers, new research shows. Nancy Bazilchuk reports from Norway. US President Donald Trump is...
Greening YouTube
YouTube viewers who watch around 1 billion hours of videos per day generate around as much carbon dioxide as the city of Glasgow. University of Bristol scientists said that YouTube could reduce those emissions...
Microsoft taxing itself to reduce carbon
Technology giant Microsoft is imposing big costs on itself for emitting greenhouse gases in an effort to accelerate its sustainability goals. John Dyer reports. Microsoft is nearly doubling its internal carbon tax to $15...
Small Costa Rica thinking big on carbon
The small Central American nation of Costa Rica has launched one of the most ambitious decarbonization plans in the world. John Dyer reports. “We will be an example to the world that it is...
Pine needles from abandoned Christmas trees turned into paint
Christmas trees abandoned after the festivities could be saved from landfill and turned into paint and food sweeteners. The trees have hundreds of thousands of needles, which emit huge quantities of greenhouse gases when...
Recyclable takeaway containers would save the greenhouse gas emissions of 55,000 cars
As a new study highlights that 2025 million takeaway-food containers per year are being used in the European Union (EU) alone, scientists are warning that more should be done to tackle the growing environmental...
Google Maps helps calculate a city’s carbon footprint
A new tool using data from Google Maps can calculate a city’s emissions from transportation and buildings, rooftop solar energy potential and even NASA climate forecasts. Its aim is to help cities identify reduction...
Liverpool wants to be first ‘Climate Positive’ city
Liverpool’s City Council is aiming to be the first city in the UK to become ‘climate positive’ by the end of 2018. Climate positive means that the city will remove more carbon dioxide from...
Carlsberg cuts coal at nine breweries
Danish beer giant Carlsberg is taking concrete steps towards eliminating coal by 2022. Last year it stopped using coal at nine breweries in China and also converted its Falkenberg brewery to 100 per cent...
Improving carbon footprint calculations of agricultural products
Life cycle assessment and product carbon footprints are well established tools which assist the process of improving environmental performance. However, there is room for methodological improvement. New methods tested in a recent study allow...
Pets create 64 million tonnes of CO2 every year
Cats and dogs are responsible for 25 to 30 per cent of the environmental impact of meat consumption in the United States, a new study has found. Pets’ meat-eating creates 64 million tonnes of...
World cities to invest USD 375 billion to fight climate change
The world’s major cities will need to invest around USD 375 billion over the next four years to fight climate change, said Paris mayor Anne Hidalgo. “It is a lot, but there is no...
Wood contributes two thirds of C02 reductions
The use of wood leads to a reduction in CO2 emissions of between two and 3.1 million tonnes per year, a study in Switzerland has revealed. It recommended using wood more widely as a...
Scientists turn CO2 and plants into renewable plastic
Scientists from Stanford University have found a way to use carbon dioxide and plant waste to make plastic. Their discovery could provide a low-carbon alternative to plastic bottles. Many of today’s plastic products are...
Online shopping not as green as thought
Online shopping may not be as green as previously thought, a new study has revealed. Making purchases online increases environmental pollution, with more delivery lorries on the roads, while there has been no decrease...
Low-carbon tourism costs just USD 11 per trip
Travellers could decarbonise their holiday for just USD 11 per trip, according to a new study. That’s the equivalent of a croissant and coffee in Paris or a photo on a camel in Egypt....
New app lets you track your climate impact
A new app developed in Norway motivates people and businesses to reduce their environmental impact by revealing the carbon footprint of their everyday actions. Friends can even compete with each other to see who...
