Offshore wind farms could help capture carbon from air and store it long-term, saving money – a geophysicist explains how

At least 99 low- and middle-income countries had used $104 billion of their emergency reserves since August, but $400 billion of the total went to advanced economies that did not need them, given the current IMF quota system, the groups said. To address continuing fiscal needs, the groups urged issuance of another $2.5 trillion in SDRs, as well as steps to decouple the allocation from existing quotas and ensure that developing countries received a bigger share of the reserves.  Sixteen civil society groups on Tuesday urged the International Monetary Fund to issue $2.5 trillion in additional emergency reserves to help developing countries still struggling to overcome the COVID-19 pandemic and its economic impact.

This summer, local youths ranging from ages five through 13 will have the opportunity to participate in summer day camps, which are focused on connecting children to nature. They will take place at the Lackawanna College Environmental Education Center in Covington Township, Lackawanna County.  Each weeklong camp takes place at LCEEC’s beautiful 211-acre property and LEED Gold Certified facility.
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UK-based Berry bpi will break ground on a recycling facility in Leamington next month, which will produce certified FDA post-consumer recycled polypropylene for use in packaging. The new facility will not only recycle used plastics, but it will also wash, sort, and sift them to produce food-grade materials with a target purity standard of 99.9 per cent. CleanStream, Berry’s proprietary process, is a closed-loop system to mechanically process domestically recovered household waste PP back into consumer packaging. The company claims that the facility will pave the way for the future of rPP packaging using automated sorting processes, integrating online sensor technologies and machine learning algorithms to separate PP containers, tubs and trays.