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“Abu Dhabi has reduced the use of single-use plastic bags in retail stores by 87 million since the emirate introduced a ban on June 1.
The Environment Agency Abu Dhabi said the reduction is equivalent to half a million bags a day, with the overall use of single-use plastic bags down by more than 90 per cent.
Abu Dhabi banned single-use plastic bags to protect the environment and address the high rate of plastic bag use across the UAE, which is almost four times the global average.
According to figures issued by the World Government Summit in February 2019, 11 billion plastic bags are used in the Emirates each year...
Routine inspections conducted by various governmental organisations revealed that more than 80 per cent of outlets are offering environment-friendly options or charging a fee for reusable plastic shopping bags.
Dr Shaikha Al Dhaheri, secretary general of the agency, said the reduction in the consumption of single-use plastics will also reduce emissions and will help the waste sector divert 80 per cent of municipal solid waste in Abu Dhabi away from landfills.
“The single-use plastic policy in Abu Dhabi addresses the issue of plastic pollutants that leak into the environment and cause damage," she said.
It has also introduced an app called Baadr — named after the Arabic word for "initiate" — that aims to educate, encourage and reward users looking to shift to a more environmentally friendly way of living.
The agency said it is also partnering with 30 private and public entities to develop a recovery system to collect and recover about 8,000 tonnes of plastic bottles over the next five years, which will go directly to the emirate’s recycling sector.
In 2022, more than 30 million plastic bottles were recovered, compared with 7.25 million bottles in 2021, and more than 10 tonnes of plastic is being collected weekly, equal to approximately 850,000 bottles.” -via The National News / UAE, 11/27/22
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Woldingham and Purley are placed on official flood alerts
Flood warning: the official Government website this evening
After one of the wettest Februarys on record, the Government has tonight issued a flood warning for low-lying areas across the whole of south-east London, from the M25 at Caterham, through Kenley, Purley, South Croydon, Carshalton Beeches, all the way to the River Thames at Tower Bridge.
Several of the rivers and bournes which flooded so…
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#Carshalton Beeches#Caterham#Caterham Bourne#Coulsdon Bourne#Croydon#Croydon Council#Environment Agency#Flood warning#London Borough of Croydon#Purley#River Wandle#Surrey County Council#Tandridge#Woldingham
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Walleys Quarry issued with a suspension notice by the Environment Agency
Today (1st March 2024), the Environment Agency has issued a Regulation 37 Suspension Notice to Walleys Quarry Ltd (WQL), which requires the company to take immediate action to remove the risk of serious pollution from fugitive emissions of landfill gas to the air causing significant and widespread offence to human senses due to odour.
The Suspension Notice requires WQL to immediately stop the…
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FOI/EIRs release: information from the Environment Agency's FCRM Engagement metrics database
Post: 31 March 2023
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FOI/EIRs release: information from the Environment Agency's FCRM Engagement metrics database
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The Environment Agency in Abu Dhabi (EAD) has recently presented Eltezam, a new digital system for protecting the environment.
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Parliamentary Ombudsman's plea to MPs to summon the DWP and the Environment Agency for failing to compensate people
Parliamentary Ombudsman’s plea to MPs to summon the DWP and the Environment Agency for failing to compensate people
Amanda Amroliwala chief executive of the PHSO
Rob Behrens, the Parliamentary Ombudsman, has asked the Commons Public Administration and Constitutional Affairs Committee (PACAC) to intervene on his behalf and summon the heads of the Department for Work and Pensions and the Environment Agency to appear before them to explain why they are ignoring his findings and refusing to compensate…
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When the River Nene looks like a lawn...
When the River Nene looks like a lawn…
Is it just me? Lakes and rivers didn’t look like this when we were kids. Summer is here and the blue-green algae is back turning our waterscape into a soggy lawn.
Upstream from the Whitewater Centre
At this time of year I’m cycling along the River Nene and around Delapre Lake a lot, sometimes daily.
There are signs up at Delapre warning people not to swim but there is a huge public yearning…
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When the River Nene looks like a lawn...
When the River Nene looks like a lawn…
Is it just me? Lakes and rivers didn’t look like this when we were kids. Summer is here and the blue-green algae is back turning our waterscape into a soggy lawn.
Upstream from the Whitewater Centre
At this time of year I’m cycling along the River Nene and around Delapre Lake a lot, sometimes daily.
There are signs up at Delapre warning people not to swim but there is a huge public yearning…
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"The prospects of the world staying within the 1.5C limit on global heating have brightened owing to the “staggering” growth of renewable energy and green investment in the past two years, the chief of the world’s energy watchdog has said.
Fatih Birol, the executive director of the International Energy Agency, and the world’s foremost energy economist, said much more needed to be done but that the rapid uptake of solar power and electric vehicles were encouraging.
“Despite the scale of the challenges, I feel more optimistic than I felt two years ago,” he said in an interview. “Solar photovoltaic installations and electric vehicle sales are perfectly in line with what we said they should be, to be on track to reach net zero by 2050, and thus stay within 1.5C. Clean energy investments in the last two years have seen a staggering 40% increase.” ...
The IEA, in a report entitled Net Zero Roadmap, published on Tuesday morning, also called on developed countries with 2050 net zero targets, including the UK, to bring them forward by several years.
The report found “almost all countries must move forward their targeted net zero dates”, which for most developed countries are 2050. Some developed countries have earlier dates, such as Germany with 2045 and Austria and Iceland with 2040 and for many developing countries they are much later, 2060 in the case of China and 2070 for India.
Cop28, the UN climate summit to be held in Dubai this November and December, offered a key opportunity for countries to set out tougher emissions-cutting plans, Birol said.
He wants to see Cop28 agree a tripling of renewable energy by 2030, and a 75% cut in methane from the energy sector by the same date. The latter could be achieved at little cost, because high gas prices mean that plugging leaks from oil and gas wells can be profitable...
He also called for Cop28 to agree a doubling of energy efficiency. “To reduce fossil fuel emissions, we need to reduce demand for fossil fuels. This is a golden condition, if we are to reach our climate goals,” he said.
Birol stopped short of endorsing the call that some countries have made for a full phase-out of fossil fuels by 2050 to be agreed at Cop28, but he said all countries must work on reducing their fossil fuel use."
-via The Guardian, September 26, 2023
#climate change#sustainability#climate anxiety#climate and environment#climate crisis#climate news#climate emergency#global warming#environment#climate action#iea#international politics#international energy agency#cop28#united nations#greenhouse gas emissions#fossil fuels#renewable energy#solar power#electric vehicles#ev#solar panels#climate tech#good news#hope#hope posting#hopepunk
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Licensed to print money: incinerator's five latest breaches
Viridor’s polluting incinerator at Beddington Lane broke the strict terms of its operating licence five times during December, according to data released by the operator.
Smoke stacks: the Beddington incinerator, polluting our air since 2018
Viridor failed to issue its usual two-weekly update during December – at a time when the Environment Agency was considering the profit-hungry multi-billion…
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#Beddington#Beddington incinerator#Beddington Lane#Croydon#Environment Agency#Infant mortality#Kingston#Merton#Pollution#radioactive waste#Scott Roche#SLWP#South London Waste Partnership#Sulphur dioxide#Sutton#Viridor#Volatile Organic Compounds
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Earth Day History
Earth Day, first observed on 22 April 1970, is considered the beginning of the modern environmental movement.
As a response to increasing environmental concerns, like the oil spill in Santa Barbara in 1969, U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson founded Earth Day to raise awareness about how to protect the environment.
Nelson and activist Denis Hayes organized teach-ins on college campuses that included various groups and organizations, drawing inspiration from protest teach-ins of the era.
With this massive mobilization, the U.S. developed key environmental laws and the Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created.
Earth Day 2024 Theme
The theme of Earth Day 2024 is “Planet vs. Plastics.”
This is about fighting the big problem of plastic all over the world. Earth Day organization wants to bring people from different places together.
The goal is to make much less plastic, 60% less by 2040.
We want a future without so much plastic. This is not just about having less trash, but it is also about keeping us and the environment healthy.
#Earth Day#Earth Day 2024#environmental movement#environmental concerns#U.S. Senator Gaylord Nelson#Denis Hayes#Environmental Protection Agency (EPA)#Planet vs. Plastics#environmental laws#environment#save mother earth
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