Environment
🏭 Goldman Sachs will no longer fund new coal projects
Goldman Sachs announces that it will no longer fund new coal projects. They will also not fund any extraction projects in the Arctic.
☢️ A new generation of nuclear reactors is coming. They are safer - and tiny.
Most likely nuclear energy will be an essential part of decarbonizing the world’s electricity. But new plants are expensive and the technology much criticized. Enter the small modular reactor, designed to allow several reactors to be combined into one unit.
🐯 AI could be a gamechanger for the conservation of animals
Automated cameras that snap a picture whenever an animal walks by, have become an indispensable tool for wildlife biologists. But going through and looking at all the pictures is long and tedious work. Now an AI will do that work instead.
🐒 Economic growth does not need to hurt wildlife
A study compared bird and mammal populations in 33 countries and found consistently positive relationships between economic growth, gender-parity in governments, and abundance of wildlife
🐠 A community of women in Kenya has restored a dying coral reef
A group of women on Wasini Island in Kenya, have banded together to restore the coral reef along their coastline. Their successful efforts have played a key role in restoring large swaths of coral reefs, on which 80% of their community rely upon for an income.
♻️ By 2030, IKEA wants to remove more greenhouse gases from the atmosphere than it produces
Last week, IKEA announced their intent to invest $220 million into becoming 'climate positive'. Key areas where these funds will be focused are to be in green energy and reforestation.
🏭 European coal power output in steep decline
The European Union has seen an unprecedented 19% year-on-year decline in coal-fired power generation in the first half of 2019.
🐺 Mexican wolf removed from extinct species list
Thanks to conservation and breeding efforts in Mexico and the United States the Mexican wolf is no longer at risk of being extinct.
⚡ Japan has a monumental plan to reinvent Fukushima as a renewable energy hub
Japan has plans in place to convert the devastated areas of Fukushima into a hub for renewable energy, replacing the former nuclear plant with solar and wind farms.