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Berlin, June 15 (EFE / EPA), (Camera: Clemens Bilan).- Members and supporters of the environmental movement Extinction Rebellion gathered in the streets of Berlin calling for net-zero carbon dioxide emissions in the next five years.FOOTAGE OF THE PROTEST ON MONDAY IN BERLIN.
Madrid, Dec 11 (EFE) .- The Secretary-General of the United Nations, Antonio Guterres, said Tuesday that "we still are in time to make this COP25 very relevant," but that to achieve this, regulation of the carbon markets is essential - Article 6 of the Paris Agreement - and that the most polluting countries must commit to a greater reduction of their emissions.TRANSLATION"The tradition on the COPs is that decisions are made at the end. The first part is a technical part where progress is very limited, but I think we still are in time to make this COP very relevant, and to make it very relevant we have to achieve the guidelines of implementation of Article Six of the Paris Agreement, which is essential for the establishment of carbon markets, and at the same time it would be very important, knowing that it is in 2020, at the Glasgow COP, that countries raise their national contributions, their commitments to ensure a much greater ambition than what we have so far, knowing that the decisive moment will be next year. I think it will be very important that at COP25 here in Madrid, that the states that have a greater influence on climate change, those that generate higher emissions, indicate that they are willing to commit more (to reduce their emissions) "
Swiss startup company Climeworks launched a factory which extracts carbon dioxide from the air, stores it underground, and sells it to paying customers in a bid to tackle climate change and global carbon emissions. The Climeworks plant is the first commercial project that will remove CO2 by drawing ambient carbon dioxide from the air using direct air capture technology.
This creepy crawly insect is called a wax worm and, believe it or not, this little guy may just be the answer to global pollution. Footage provided courtesy of the Spanish National Research Council shows a brilliant new discovery made by researcher Federica Bertocchini. She discovered that wax worms are capable of eating through polyethylene plastic. The researcher demonstrated her discovery at a laboratory in Madrid on Wednesday. Although polyethylene is one of the world's most resistant forms of plastic, the worms can destroy the material by munching their way through it. According to the researcher, 100 worms can biodegrade up to 92 milligrams of polyethylene in just one night. That might not seem like much, but what if we multiply that by a thousand? Or even a million? The discovery is touted as the first all-natural solution to the disposal of the dangerous and wasteful material worldwide. Wax worms are now seen as the best way to biodegrade plastic without causing more harmful effects to nature. Polyethylene plastic, the material used to make plastic bags, is very durable. That's why we use it so often. The problem is that polyethylene is not biodegradable, which means that it stays in the environment for hundreds of years after being thrown away. It can cause all sorts of problems for wild animals and the natural environment in general. That's why this new discovery has the potential to help us clean up our act and restore areas like landfills and other areas polluted with plastic.
The zero-fuel airplane Solar Impulse 2 landed in Abu Dhabi on Tuesday night, completing at 35,000 kilometer trip across all the continents of the earth powered only by sunlight. Mission Control in Monaco cheered as Balloonist Bertrand Piccard piloted the craft back to the same location from which it took off back in March 2015. Although its 236 foot wingspan is wider than a 747 jumbo jet, the Solar Impulse weighs only 2.3 tons.
According to a team of researchers from Duke University and the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies, slashing carbon emissions won’t just reduce global warming, it could also prevent tens of thousands of premature deaths by 2030.
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