Sustainability

• [New] The incremental cost of ensuring new water and sanitation assets are climate-resilient is estimated to be between $0.9 billion and $2.3 billion a year, which represents around 1% of baseline infrastructure investment needs and would reduce the risk of damage to new infrastructure by 50%. / IISD
• [New] Ambitious emission reductions could decrease the number of people living in areas with fine particulate matter (PM 2.5) concentrations that exceed the World Health Organisation air quality guidelines from 18 million to 1 million by 2050. / IIASA
• [New] Consumption of meat products has more than doubled since 1961, and an 80% increase in global food GHG emissions is projected from 2009 to 2050 due to population growth and income-related dietary shifts toward more meat. / Wiley Online Library
• [New] To effectively respond to increasingly complex security threats in the world, the UN needs to strengthen its capacity and institution building as well as to further improve its working methods and the effectiveness of its work. / Ecns.cn
• [New] In the United States, SpaceX has pioneered reusable rocket technology which could reduce costs for spaceflight. / East Asia Forum
• [New] The impact of climate change is 'very important' to the insurance space, and that, ultimately, working together with data analytics will be the best way of increasing resilience and ensuring both businesses and communities are prepared for the inevitable. / Insurance Business
• [New] The emissions of international shipping are expected to grow, depending on the world economy and energy markets, by 90-130% from the 2008 levels by 2050 if emissions are not reduced efficiently. / liikenne- ja viestintaministerio
• [New] The electric truck fleet reaches 1.8 million in 2030 in the Stated Policies Scenario and 3.9 million in the Sustainable Development Scenario, hitting 1% and 3% of the total truck stock respectively. / IEA
• [New] In the Sustainable Development Scenario, the global stock of electric two / three-wheelers reaches over 490 million in 2030, around 40% of the total stock for two / three-wheelers. / IEA
• [New] Education for restoration will turn today's children into ecosystem ambassadors, provide skills for sustainable jobs and ensure that the UN Decade's achievements far outlive its timeframe. / UN Decade on Restoration
• [New] NBTs represent a new opportunity to develop input traits that address the growing global challenges of increased yields and climate change, as well as the urgent need for greater sustainability and reduction in agriculture's carbon footprint. / Business Wire
• [New] Global investment manager Invesco has launched a green exchange traded fund in New York at a time of increasing appetite for sustainable investments, with 77% of institutional investors planning to stop investing in non-ESG (Environment Social Governance) products by 2022. / Wealth Management
• [New] Ride-hailing plays a key role in creating accessible and efficient multi-modal transportation systems, reducing both total numbers of vehicles in cities as well as emissions, which is expected to have an oversized impact on real-world pollution globally. / Futurride.com
• [New] With more time we will see a logistics industry that can serve the Filipino public more efficiently in 2021 and in the years to come. / Transportify
• [New] Rio Tinto is tapping an opportunity to extract lithium from waste rocks at its Boron mine in the United States. / International Energy Agency
• [New] The amount of spent EV batteries reaching the end of their first life is expected to surge after 2030, at a time when mineral demand is set to still be growing rapidly. / International Energy Agency
• [New] The impact of IoT-enabled share car applications will be a reduction in the total number of car sales worldwide, significantly reducing the resources needed to build cars. / IoT Business News
• [New] The demand and interest for sustainable investment in China will grown as millennials control an increasingly larger part of social wealth. / sustainalytics.com
• [New] As the global demand on plastics is growing continuously, the trend of plastic emission into open environments is unlikely to reduce until 2030 unless key policies, consumption behaviors and waste management measures regarding plastic products will be radically transformed immediately. / Frontiers
• [New] Against the backdrop of the global spread of the COVID-19 pandemic and the sluggish recovery of the world economy, it will be arduous for China to achieve rapid emission reduction while maintaining sustained and stable economic and social development. / China.org

Last updated: 08 May 2021