The Global Green Growth Institute(GGGI) will be hosting a GGGWeek 2021 on 25-27 October. GGGWeek2021 will feature the special theme of “Green Recovery, Green Jobs, and NetZero2050”.

Any interested parties, who would like to present their ideas, showcase progress, and share commitment on the above topics, can submit your propositions by July 31st, 2021.

The European Union (EU) carbon border adjustment mechanism (CBAM) announced on 14 July could change trade patterns in favour of countries where production is relatively carbon efficient but do little to mitigate climate change. The mechanism could help avoid carbon leakage, but its impact on climate change would be limited – only a 0.1% drop in global CO2 emissions – with higher trade costs for developing countries. At the same time, several of the EU’s trading partners exporting goods in carbon-intensive sectors – including cement, steel, aluminium, oil refinery, paper, glass, chemical and fertilizers – have raised concerns that the CBAM could substantially curtail their exports.

Carbon “sinks”, such as forests or the ocean, play a crucial role in absorbing atmospheric CO2 and thereby reducing the damages caused by climate change and the emissions that drive it.

Dr. Wilfried Rickels and Prof. Martin Quaas's findings show that Australia, Indonesia and Cuba contribute the largest blue-carbon net “wealth” to the rest of the world. However, only a handful of countries have enough blue carbon potential to offset their entire carbon footprint.

EURACTIV looks at Europe’s upcoming forest strategy and how it intends to plant “at least 3 billion additional trees in the EU by 2030.

The capacity of forests to act as a “carbon sink” – absorbing more CO2 than they emit – is decreasing and needs to be reversed, the European Commission said in September 2020 when it presented its 2030 climate target plan.

Turning Negatives of Climate Change into Positives

Greenhouse gases are globally agreed as the main causes of climate change. But is it possible to be consuming instead of just emitting nightmarish greenhouse gases? YES IT IS !

Oh, do you know that some products we use can actually be produced from greenhouse gases? And do you know that some products we use can be produced without emitting greenhouse gases?

Let us start giving affirmation to new production pathways that can be created with Circularity in Mind, just like we are aiming to create e-fuels and diamonds from consuming greenhouse gases and emitting no waste.

So much greenhouse gases are generated annually from mining and production of new aluminium but yet everywhere is aluminium waste. Quantitatively, the global aluminium waste per annum is more than the amount of aluminium mined annually.

If we recycle aluminium waste instead of producing new aluminium, then we delete emissions from aluminium mining industry. If we use a process that consumes greenhouse gases to recycle aluminium waste, then we reset the negatives of climate change to positives. Voila!

Explainer: Will global warming ‘stop’ as soon as net-zero emissions are reached?

The treaty is structured around a fundamental right and a fundamental duty. The first article proposes the first ever binding formulation, at a global level, of the right of “every person […] to live in an ecologically sound environment”.

The Pact is a compass defining a direction by means of converging binding principles. Such principles should be used first and foremost as legal parameters to design policies, both domestic and international, that prevent further environmental harm.

Resource Efficient Housing programme is being piloted with Burkina Faso and Sri Lanka as the first 2 selected countries. The programme responds to the urgent need to reduce global greenhouse emissions with a focus on material resource efficiency, given the fact that 50% of the building stock is yet to be built, with most of it to occur in developing countries. The main objective is to support countries building their roadmap towards a resource efficient, low carbon and climate resilient buildings strategy.

Dramatic steps have just been laid out by the EU in the new Fit for 55 package of proposals to achieve 55% reduction of emissions by 2030

Water-Secure, Climate-Resilient Cities