France approves ban on short domestic flights
French lawmakers voted late on Saturday to abolish domestic flights on routes than can be covered by train in under two-and-a-half hours,...
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Indonesia reduced the rate of deforestation by 75% in 2020
Indonesia, with the world’s third biggest rainforest area, reduced the rate of deforestation by 75% last year by controlling forest fires...
General Motors sets goal of 100% electric by 2035
GM announced that it plans to become carbon neutral in its global products and operations by 2040 and has committed to setting...
Elon Musk to offer $100 million prize for 'best' carbon capture technology
Tesla Inc chief and billionaire entrepreneur Elon Musk on Thursday took to Twitter to promise a $100 million prize for development of the...
The world’s biggest diesel engine factory switches to electric motors
From less than 10% of output in 2020, electric motor production at Tremery will double to around 180,000 in 2021, and is planned to reach...
Paris to turn Champs Élysées into 'extraordinary garden' after 2024 summer olympics
The Champs-Élysées, a 1.9km-long avenue in central Paris, will undergo a major €250m makeover following the 2024 Summer Olympics. The...
Norway becomes first country to sell more electric cars than petrol vehicles
Electric cars comprised 54% of all new vehicle sales in Norway for 2019. This makes Norway the first country to have sold more electric...
On Monday 44% of Germany's electricity came from wind power
data available at https://windeurope.org/about-wind/daily-wind
Japan aims to eliminate gasoline vehicles by 2035
Japan aims to eliminate gasoline-powered vehicles in the next 15 years, the government announced on the 25th, last week in a plan to...
Tesco confirms it removed 1 billion pieces of plastic in 2020
Tesco announces that it has removed one billion pieces of plastic from its UK business in just one year. In 2020, by working with its...
Dogger Bank Wind Farm to power 6 million UK homes
Dogger Bank Wind Farm and GE Renewable Energy have confirmed GE as preferred turbine supplier for Dogger Bank C, announcing at the same...
Drip irrigation system developed to solve rice paddy problem
An Israeli company has developed a drip irrigation system for growing rice to replace the flooded paddies that have supplied the world...
Iceland to cut greenhouse emissions by 55% by 2030
Iceland aims to reduce the country's greenhouse emissions by 55% by 2030, compared with levels in 1990, the government said on Thursday....
Denmark agrees deal to have 775,000 electric cars by 2030, 30% of current cars on road
Denmark on Friday agreed on a deal with parliament to put at least 775,000 electric or hybrid cars on Danish roads by 2030 in its latest...
UK gets £175 million more for cycling and walking as research shows 80% public support
Survey reveals 8 out of 10 people support measures to reduce road traffic and two-thirds support reallocating road space for active...
136 Million Trips Taken on Shared Bikes and Scooters Across the U.S. in 2019
What started in 2010 as a nascent concept, untested in North American cities, closed out the decade as a fast-growing and increasingly...
Renewables will account for almost 90% of the increase in total power capacity worldwide this year
Record levels of new renewable energy capacity are set to come on stream this year and next, while fossil fuel capacity will fall due to...
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