Alicia BullerSeptember 15, 2018
The first international Rhine Clean Up was organised on Saturday 15 September to coincide with World Clean Up Day. Over 6,000 volunteers came together in towns and cities along the length of the Rhine to remove mounting litter that infests the river. Rhine Clean Up Day, a mega-scale cleaning campaign, is designed to create awareness of …
Alicia BullerSeptember 14, 2018
Impact4All speaks to Nick Beglinger, co-founder and CEO of C21, about Hack4Climate – the world’s first hackathon initiative for saving the planet Innovation in technology is critical to the quest to curb climate change. Hack4Climate (H4C), a climate-driven hackathon, aims to pit the wits of the world’s best coders against some of the planet’s most pressing …
Content Editor - Impact4allSeptember 12, 2018
New funding of more than £100m ($140 m) to develop e-mobility vehicles has been announced by UK PM British prime minister Theresa May told the Zero Emission Vehicle Summit in Birmingham on Tuesday she wanted Britain to be ‘a leader in green technology’. The £106m funding boost will also cover research and development for new …
Alicia BullerSeptember 11, 2018
A supply ship, dubbed Ocean Cleanup, has set sail in San Francisco in an attempt to clean up the ocean. The ambitious project aims to clean up 50 per cent of the 80, 000 tonnes of plastic located in the infamous Great Pacific Garbage Patch within five years. Every year, at least eight million tonnes …
Kanav DuggalSeptember 11, 2018
The future of concentrated solar power (CSP) in the MENA region looks very bright indeed, writes Kanav Duggal from the Middle East Solar Industry Association While the global solar industry has been on a rapid growth trajectory over the past decade, more recently, the emergence and cost competitiveness of CSP technologies has been quite notable, …
Alicia BullerSeptember 10, 2018
Global fairtrade cosmetics entrepreneur Mark Constantine has been a pioneer in transforming the UK’s ethical retail market.
Alicia BullerSeptember 6, 2018
The CEO of REC Solar, one of Europe’s largest solar energy companies, has called for radically higher government renewable energy targets. “The EU’s new target of 32 per cent renewables by 2030 is a really nice improvement, which requires a doubling of current solar implementation in Europe,” Steve O’Neil told Impact4All. “But our research says …
Content Editor - Impact4allSeptember 5, 2018
Frankfurt must ban high-pollution older diesel vehicles from parts of the city from next February as part of a plan to improve air quality, the German administrative court ruled on Wednesday. The decision by the court in Wiesbaden on a case brought by environmental group Deutsche Umwelthilfe (DUH) came after a landmark ruling by Germany’ …
Content Editor - Impact4allSeptember 4, 2018
After 85 years of production, Lego has announced plans to make new pieces from plant-based plastic instead In a bid to turn more eco-friendly, the Danish toymaker has begun production on 25 various brick shapes that will resemble leaves, bushes and trees. Other sustainable shapes will include the brushes in the car washes, street sweepers …
Content Editor - Impact4allSeptember 3, 2018
Trump’s arbitrary foreign policy has resulted in a renewables-peak for industrial offtakers in Africa, says expert
