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May 12, 2022
The Conference of the Parties to the UN Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD) is being held in Abidjan (Ivory Coast) from May 9 to 20. The theme of the meeting is "Earth. Life. Legacy: from Scarcity to Prosperity." The conference is about a call to action aimed at reviving and preserving terrestrial ecosystems, such as agricultural lands, meadows, forests, wetlands and peat lands for future generations.
May 12, 2022
Environmental Education Day in Russia Date in the current year: May 12, 2022. Environmental Education Day is observed on May 12 in Russia and other CIS countries. This annual ecological observance was established in 1991 to emphasize the importance of environmental knowledge in all sciences and fields of human activity.
April 28, 2022
The Russian authorities are assuming to postpone the plan of saving the planet from global warming due to Western sanctions. The Ministry of Energy of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Energy of Russia) proposed to postpone the implementation of the national strategy to combat harmful greenhouse gas emissions for an indefinite period.
March 25, 2022
"Responding to challenges - by overcoming limits." The Moscow State University named after M.V. Lomonosov arranged a presentation of the preprint of the report to the Rome Club. On March 23, the Moscow State University Fundamental Library hosted a presentation of the preprint of the report to the Rome Club "Overcoming Limits", timed to coincide with the fiftieth anniversary of the first report of the club "The Limits to Growth".
March 22, 2022
World Water Day, held on 22 March every year since 1993, focuses on the importance of freshwater. World Water Day celebrates water and raises awareness of the 2.2 billion people living without access to safe water. It is about taking action to tackle the global water crisis. A core focus of World Water Day is to support the achievement of Sustainable Development Goal 6: water and sanitation for all by 2030. This 2022, the focus is groundwater, an invisible resource with an impact visible everywhere.
March 22, 2022
Ukraine war threatens global heating goals, warns UN chief. António Guterres says countries seeking alternatives to Russian energy may increase use of fossil fuels
The war in Ukraine risks putting global targets on the climate out of reach, the UN secretary general has warned, if countries respond to Russia’s aggression by increasing their use of fossil fuels.
March 14, 2022
6 Big Findings from the IPCC 2022 Report on Climate Impacts, Adaptation and Vulnerability. The newest report from the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) paints a troubling picture: Climate change is already impacting every corner of the world, and much more severe impacts are in store if we fail to halve greenhouse gas emissions this decade and immediately scale up adaptation.
March 13, 2022
Europe has started returning to the "dirtiest" fuel. While Europe is attempting to reduce dependence on Russian gas, the region is increasingly beginning to switch to coal power generation, Bloomberg writes. Although the prices of the dirtiest fossil fuel - coal are rising in the same way as for most other raw materials, in any case it turns out to be cheaper to return to coal than using gas.
March 3, 2022
Russian scientists have created an environmentally friendly substance, which is also safe for marine life, and dissolves the plugs that are formed from time to time in wells during gas production in the waters. This was reported by the press service of the Ministry of Science and Higher Education of the Russian Federation (Ministry of Education and Science of Russia).
February 28, 2022
Capitalism’s Latest Bright Idea: Privatise the Moon. The billionaire space race of the twenty-first century is in full swing.