Will we still always have Paris?
Sustainability - Mar 29, 2017
The executive order is silent on the Trump administration’s intent vis-à-vis the 2015 Paris Agreement, in which nearly 200 countries agreed to lower greenhouse gas emissions. But it casts a long shadow both on the U.S. ability to meet its Paris goal and the future of U.S. international leadership on climate change.
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Sustainability - Oct 10, 2018
The world’s leading climate scientists have warned there is only a dozen years for global warming to be kept to a maximum of 1.5C, beyond which even half a degree will significantly worsen the risks of drought, floods, extreme heat and poverty for hundreds of millions of people.
We have 12 years to limit climate change catastrophe, warns UN
Urgent changes needed to cut risk of extreme heat, drought, floods and poverty, says IPCC
Sustainability - Apr 20, 2018
There are many, of course. But at the end of last year, China banned its importation of plastic waste. To date, China has banned twenty-four categories of waste as part of a crackdown cleaning up its environment and infamous Beijing haze.
Waste Woes: How Blockchain Could Clean Up The Mess We're In
While on the surface it makes sense to do the right thing for our planet, it’s not making economic cents. So as waste piles up in various countries around the world, could blockchain be the answer?
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