Tag: environmental
Artificial intelligence can help develop climate-friendly solutions, but its own environmental footprint is huge | Foreign countries
Artificial intelligence can help curb climate change by optimizing energy production, transport, industry, heating, even food production in such a way that climate emissions are produced as little as possible.…
The UN environmental meeting was canceled – big questions remain
The meeting dragged on – several delegates left to catch their booked flights home The COP16 UN meeting in Colombia on biodiversity ended without some of the most important issues…
The negotiations on environmental agreements are dragging on
share-arrowShare unsaveSave expand-left full screen Climate and Environment Minister Romina Pourmokhtari. Archive image. Photo: Jakob Åkersten Brodén/TT The negotiations during the UN meeting on biological diversity, COP16, are dragging on.…
This is how you can drive on petrol in Stockholm’s new environmental zone
At New Year, it is introduced for the first time a environmental zone of class 3 in Sweden, specifically in central Stockholm. After December 31, it will not be permitted…
Worry in Botkyrka over new environmental scandal
Peter Swalén lives next door to a rock crusher in Botkyrka where a company handles lots from the subway expansion in Stockholm. The noise from the activities in his garden…
Ban on wood burning and environmental zone throughout the city: how much sense do Utrecht plans make?
The municipality of Utrecht wants to take far-reaching measures to improve air quality. Burning wood-burning stoves and fireplaces will be prohibited, only emission-free mopeds and mopeds are still welcome and…
Utrecht wants an expansion of the environmental zone and a ban on scooters and wood burning
“We are raising the bar to protect the health of Utrecht residents,” said councilor Eva Oosters (Environment and Emission-Free Transport). “Air pollution has a huge impact, from lung problems to…
Environmental services do not meet all quality requirements and staff are not always sufficiently trained
The Netherlands has 28 environmental services. In our province these are the Utrecht Region Environmental Service and the Utrecht Regional Implementation Service (RUD). The municipalities of Amersfoort, Baarn, Bunschoten, Eemnes,…
Total flop for the government’s major environmental investment
At the end of 2022, the government abolished the environmental bonus that was supposed to encourage the purchase of more environmentally friendly cars. Since the abolition of the environmental bonus,…
Sweden’s “garbage queen” dug thousands of tons of toxic waste into the ground – she denies environmental crimes and defends herself | Foreign countries
Fariba Vancor and ten other people are accused of serious environmental crimes or complicity in them in one of the largest environmental criminal trials in Swedish history. The self-titled “trash…