Funding competition The Sustainable Innovation Fund: round 1 (temporary framework) UK registered businesses can apply for a share of up to £55 million for new projects focusing on sustainable economic recovery from COVID-19. Competition opens: Monday 29 June 2020 Competition closes: Wednesday 29 July 2020 11:00am
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Seven United Nations (UN) entities have come together, supported by the World Economic Forum (WEF), and the World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD), to call for an overhaul of the current electronics system, with the aim of supporting international efforts to address e-waste challenges. The entities called for a systematic collaboration with major brands, small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs), the academia, trade unions, civil society and associations in a deliberative process to reorient the system, and reduce yearly waste of resources with a value greater than the gross domestic product (GDP) of most countries.
Sitting at the center of Pyeongchon Central Park in the city of Anyang, Gyeonggi Province, is Daan Roosegaarde’s giant outdoor purifier “Smog Free Tower.” Roosegaarde’s seven-meter tall outdoor air purifier is designed to filter about 30,000 cubic meters of air per hour using little electricity.
If you find yourself prone to temperamental outbursts and excessive anger, the issue may ultimately result from sleep and your lack of it.The research is one…
A Swedish mapmaker stumbled across a trove of well-preserved Bronze Age jewelry last month. Tomas Karlsson was hiking in a forest outside Gothenberg when the gleam from a bronze necklace caught his eye. Archaeologists sent to the site found 50 items in all — including bronze necklaces, rings and armbands — all more than 2,500 years old.
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The agreement is the first step to set a framework for sustainable finance, that will help investors and consumers to identify economic activities that can unambiguously be considered environmentally green.
Milano Unica’s 30th anniversary event took place in Milan earlier this month…