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Pedestrian bridge to be made from old wind turbine blades

18th January 2021

Cork Institute of Technology, Efficiency & Environment, Environment, Everun, Ireland, Technology, Top Stories, wind energy, wind turbine blade

Pedestrian bridge to be made from old wind turbine blades: County Cork in Ireland will be a home very soon to a pedestrian bridge built out of old wind turbine blades. Researchers at Cork Institute of Technology (CIT), have begun a project that aspires to discover the capability of repurposing useless wind turbine blades in…

COP26 President: 2021 to be a big year for climate & UK

18th January 2021

Heather Trudeau

Alok Sharma, BEIS, climate change, COP26, Efficiency & Environment, Environment, glasgow, net-zero, Policy, Top Stories

COP26 President: 2021 to be a big year for climate & UK: Alok Sharma, COP26 President announced that 2021 will bring a ‘golden thread’ of climate action driven by the UK. Talking at the Business, Energy and Industrial Strategy Committee early today, he stated: “2021 will be a very big year for the climate, it…

Human based activity may boost atmospheric CO2 in 2021

11th January 2021

Heather Trudeau

carbon dioxide, climate change, Efficiency & Environment, Environment, global warming, Met Office, Top Stories

Human based activity may boost atmospheric CO2 in 2021: Carbon dioxide in the atmosphere will rise to levels 50% greater in 2021 than before the industrial revolution, because of human induced emissions. That’s as reported by a new paper by the Met Office, that expects CO2 levels will surpass 417 parts per million (ppm) for…

Government sees resistance from approval of pesticide

10th January 2021

Heather Trudeau

bees, chemical pesticides, Defra, Efficiency & Environment, Environment, Policy, pollution, Top Stories

Government sees resistance from approval of pesticide: The government came under criticism following its conclusion to approve usage of what is supposedly a ‘bee-killing’ pesticide. The disapproval from environmental groups & Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg crops up after the Department for Environment, Food and Rural Affairs (Defra) approved a product that contains neonicotinoid to…

UK has the highest decarbonisation rate in the world so far

UK has the highest decarbonisation rate in the world so far: The UK has the highest overall decline in greenhouse gas production in the world throughout the course of the 21st century. That’s according to one of the findings of current research by the accounting firm PwC, that suggests the UK’s carbon dioxide emissions dropped…

Brits bin nearly 42% of the food they purchase each year

Brits bin nearly 42% of the food they purchase each year: Brits throw out around 42% of the food they purchase, with an approximate £2,675 of items ending up in the bin each year. That’s as reported by current research by Samsung, that discovered that the major cause of food waste is that people don’t…

IMechE speaks on CCC’s 6th Carbon Budget for Gov

The organisation states it hopes the nation will embrace the CCC’s advice as an opportunity for growing engineering skills and economic renewal across the whole of the UK

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Wood pellets burned linked to forest degradation

2nd December 2020

Heather Trudeau

biomass, carbon, Climate, deforestation, Drax Group, Environment, eu, Europe, Renewable energy, solar power, Sustainability, UK, wildlife, wind power

biomass, carbon, Climate, deforestation, drax group, Environment, eu, Europe, Renewable energy, solar power, Sustainability, UK, wildlife, windpower, yorkshire

Wood pellets burned linked to forest degradation : Wood pellet use by Drax Plc in Yorkshire, together with bioenergy demand from other countries in Europe, is driving intensive clearcutting in protected forests in Estonia and Latvia, a new report reveals. Hidden inside a wood pellet: intensive logging impacts in Estonian and Latvian forests,[1] published by…