Mobilising the shift towards a New Plastics Economy
The global plastics economy produces over 300 million tonnes of material each year, a figure that has increased twenty-fold over the past 50 years and is expected to double again by 2050. Transforming this system is a daunting task. However, it may start with a simple mindset change, one where stakeholders across the industry’s value […]
G7 nations pledge to end fossil fuel subsidies by 2025
Leaders of the UK, US, Canada, France, Germany, Italy, Japan and the EU urge all countries to join them in eliminating support for coal, oil and gas in a decade The G7 nations have for the first time set a deadline for the ending most fossil fuel subsidies, saying government support for coal, oil and […]
Circulate on Fridays: Robot Space Geckos, Circular Economy on BBC and More
Every Friday, Circulate rounds up a collection of interesting circular economy related stories and articles. This Friday, Pew Research finds out what people really think of the sharing economy, NASA are using gecko tech and a chance to catch up on circular economy insight on the BBC and iTunes. Anything to report? Photo credit: Janitors via […]
Obama says memory of Hiroshima 'must never fade' | Daily briefing
Donald Trump crosses threshold to claim Republican nomination; another Berkeley student details sexual harassment; antibiotic resistance gene discovered in woman Barack Obama visited Hiroshima on Friday, the first sitting US president to do so. “Seventy one years ago on a bright cloudless morning death fell from the sky and the world’s was changed,” he said, […]
Chicken embryo tests can prevent practice of gassing billions of cockerels
Scientists create sex identification tests that can identify male chicks before they hatch The current practice of gassing billions of male chicks within a day of hatching because they cannot lay eggs could be stopped thanks to a new embryo gender test. Globally some 3.2 billion cockerels are killed within hours of breaking free of […]
ExxonMobil is in its climate change bunker and won’t let reality in
Still stonewalling, the oil giant banned the Guardian from its AGM this week. But even its shareholders are starting to hear the gale-force winds blowing outside When one of the world’s largest pension funds tells the biggest oil company on the planet that it faces an existential threat, there are stormy times ahead. The Guardian […]
Seven deadly poisons – and a law that won't protect you fast enough
Reform to toxic chemical regulation is the first for 40 years. Unfortunately, it won’t do enough to eliminate harmful substances from our lives The US is set for the first legislation to regulate toxic industrial chemicals in 40 years. You might think this would be cause for celebration. However, the bill updating the Toxic Substances […]
Meteorologists are seeing global warming's effect on the weather | Paul Douglas
Weather is becoming more extreme, and meteorologists are taking notice Whatever happened to normal weather? Earth has always experienced epic storms, debilitating drought, and biblical floods. But lately it seems the treadmill of disruptive weather has been set to fast-forward. God’s grandiose Symphony of the Seasons, the natural ebb and flow of the atmosphere, is […]
Swaziland acting as 'puppet' to South Africa in bid to legalise rhino horn trade
Top conservationists criticise the proposal – announced just days after neighbouring South Africa dropped its bid for legal trade – saying it will open the gates for a black market Swaziland has been accused by one of the world’s leading conservationists of being a puppet of South Africa in a bid to open the floodgates […]
Hunt plays the long game on his glaringly obvious emissions trading scheme | Lenore Taylor
Minister keeps up attack on Labor’s ‘carbon tax’ to placate Coalition climate change sceptics, all the while ensuring the machinery is in place for his own ETS For years Greg Hunt has been suggesting different things to different people about his climate policy. This week he was almost caught out. Most people who understand how […]