DMD ECO WORLD is the winner of the online voting, which took place on the ESGnews.bg website in the period May 15 - June 15. This year the theme was recycling and 75.88% of the site's readers voted for the company, which produces compostable alternatives to plastics. DMD ECO WORLD products are 100% climate neutral, and during…
When diversity, equality and inclusion are discussed, men are often absent from the conversation. In a survey on the topic, 68% of men said they did not recognize themselves in the topic. Some of them have indicated that they believe that they themselves are contributing to the problem. 64% indicated that they lack the confidence to talk about the topic with colleagues...
Parts of southern Europe are facing scorching heatwaves as summer sets in - while others are suffering from record rainfall. These extreme weather events are becoming more violent and more frequent as a result of climate change, and at least for Western nations, this is a frightening look into the future, reports Euronews. The record-breaking days showed how badly…
Residents of the German city of Limburg an der Lahn, in the western German province of Hesse, voted to destroy their population of 700 pigeons, reports Euronews. The referendum was held on the same day as the European Parliament elections in the country - June 9, after the decision of the city council from November 2023 that the birds be...
The reconstruction of Gaza after the bombing by Israel will lead to environmental costs of the equivalent of 60 million tons of CO2, reports Euronews. Israel's unprecedented assault on Gaza since the October 7 Hamas attack that killed an estimated 1200 Israelis has caused widespread death, displacement and destruction of infrastructure in the Palestinian territory. The first four months of…
International efforts to protect the ozone layer have been a "huge global success", scientists have said, after revealing that harmful gases in the atmosphere are declining faster than expected. The Montreal Protocol, signed in 1987, aimed to phase out ozone-depleting substances found primarily in refrigerators, air conditioners and aerosol sprays. A new study found that atmospheric levels…
Life in the beautiful hustle and bustle of Paris, one of the noisiest cities in Europe, comes at a high price for the human body, writes Euronews. Around 80% of people in the Ile-de-France region are affected by both sound and air pollution levels that exceed World Health Organization (WHO) recommendations, according to a joint analysis by…
Temporary tariffs on Chinese-made electric vehicles (EVs) announced by the European Commission are too low to protect the European auto industry from state-subsidized car exports from Beijing. This was stated to Euractiv by the former General Counsel of the Office of the United States Trade Representatives (USTR), Greta Paesch. According to her, the duties, which range from…
With just five months to go until this year's COP29 UN climate summit, countries can't agree on the amount of global funding to help the developing world tackle climate change - let alone how to divide it up. Reuters. The decision will dominate negotiations for…
Provoked by proposed new rules for electrical transformers, representatives of the European energy sector have approached the European Commission to outline their wider concerns with the EU's approach to regulation. The European Commission has been working hard over the last five years to develop rules to facilitate the decarbonisation of the EU economy. The idea was to make every sector more efficient...
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