Environment

WHAT'S NEXT:? Our natural environment is under ever-increasing threat. Landscape and ocean adaptation plus stabilizing biodiversity strategies will play an important role in maintaining global food productivity as climate changes. Evidence is mounting that any economic strategy that ignores carbon pollution will impose tremendous costs on the global economy and will result in fewer jobs and less economic growth over the long term. The global market for commercial "Earth observation" data is expected to hit $3.5 billion by 2024. Battles over environmental regulation could become particularly pointed in the coming years.

[New] Better use of data has the potential to help solve wider climate change problems and help the UK meet its net zero 2050 target, but we will also consider government's and businesses' responsibility for the environmental impact of increased data use.
As well as costing the UK tax payer well over £200 billion, the high speed rail project is already causing extensive and irreversible damage to the environment and will be a vast new source of carbon emissions for at least the next 120 years, as well as enabling mass airport expansion.
Increased demand would see the carbon pollution from plastic double to around 3.5 billion tonnes by 2050, despite targets to cut global emissions to zero to avoid the worst impacts of climate change.
Given likely falls in solar module prices of 5-10% over the coming decade, not only will renewable energy soon be the cheapest form of new power generation in Bangladesh, it will also be quick to build while not adding to air pollution or carbon emissions.
The EU Green Deal includes the adoption of several strategies relevant to the preservation of freshwater including the Circular Economy Action Plan, the 'Farm to Fork' strategy, the Biodiversity Strategy for 2030, the EU Strategy for Adaptation to Climate Change and the Zero Pollution Action Plan.
As part of a wider sustainability strategy to reduce its environmental impact, Kingfisher has pledged to plant more forest than it consumes by 2025.
The copper price will likely rise further towards the end of 2020, and that the current environment has strong parallels to the rebound in the copper price after the global financial crisis, thanks to massive stimulus efforts by Beijing.
Beyond 2020, China's gas demand is expected to be driven by the industrial sector and a policy-driven expansion of gas-fired power generation to reduce air pollution.
The problem of solar panel disposal will explode with full force in two or three decades and wreck the environment' because it 'is a huge amount of waste and they are not easy to recycle.
Over the coming decade we will need bold and ambitious spatial plans to reshape the built environment, helping to reduce the need to travel, and maximising the use of walking, cycling, public transport and shared mobility.
With air pollution and climate change being named by the World Health Organisation as one of the top ten threats to global health, an important goal for smart cities is to lower emissions.
Cellular agriculture as well as 3D printing might offer a surprising solution for the future to meet a 28% increase in demand for food production by 2050, as well as to reduce waste and negative impact on the earth.
With growth in coal consumption in Africa over the next two decades projected to be triple what it was in the past two decades, recognizing particulate pollution as a possible growing problem becomes even more important.
Dairy inventory build-up will put downward pressure on prices in the months ahead in an environment of competition for reduced import demand as China, the world's largest dairy import market, is forecasted to reduce imports 15% YOY in 2020.
With air pollution and climate change being named by the World Health Organisation (WHO) as one of the top ten threats to global health, an important goal for smart cities is to lower emissions.
In 2007, the nine nations that surround the sea adopted an Action Plan to achieve a Baltic Sea in good environmental status by 2021, including elimination of eutrophication.
Unless appropriate mechanisms to improve ambient air quality are put in place in India, air pollution will continue to pose serious public health concerns in the coming years.
As other companies expand their health, safety, and environment and environmental, social, and governance (ESG) programs, the number of oil and gas companies investing in the energy transition will likely grow.
Policymakers are facing pressure to reverse or suspend legislation that would address plastic waste and pollution, such as Canada's proposal to ban harmful single-use plastics by 2021.
Beyond direct losses and disruption from damage to buildings and infrastructure, air pollution from wildfires has led to healthcare costs in excess of $100 billion in losses per year in the United States.
Since domestic markets are opening ahead of international markets, and because passengers appear to prefer short haul travel in the current environment, RPKs will recover more slowly, with passenger traffic expected to return to 2019 levels in 2024, one year later than previously forecast.
Policy-makers are facing pressure to reverse or suspend legislation that would address plastic waste and pollution, such as Canada's proposal to ban harmful single-use plastics by 2021.

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Last updated: 19 September 2020