[APRIL 8-12] Top 5 climate change and sustainability news of the week
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Check out the top 5 climate change and sustainability news stories of the week!
The week of April 8-12 brought important news on climate change and sustainability issues, such as the launching ceremony of the COP 25 Climate Change Summit, a prototype of a floating city in New York, a new model of tolling polluting vehicles in London and a ranking of universities that contribute to the Sustainable Development Goals:
News summary:
Definitive: COP 25 climate change summit to be held at Parque Bicentenario Cerrillos
On Thursday 11, the President of the Republic of Chile, Sebastián Piñera, inaugurated the Summit on Climate Change COP 25. The Cerrillos Bicentennial Park has been the place confirmed by the organizers due to its «great connectivity, its green areas and easy access for citizens». This summit will be held between December 2 and 13, and some 20 thousand people are expected to attend. Source: La tercera. See note.
New York to deploy prototype floating wooden city to ‘circumvent’ climate change
Faced with a possible rise in sea levels due to climate change, a UN-backed association is developing a prototype of an ecologically sustainable floating city. The floating platforms - which would be made of wood and bamboo - would each have a surface area of 18,200 square meters and could house 300 people. As the sea level rises, the platforms would rise, being able to withstand hurricanes. From an urban planning point of view, six platforms would form a hexagon-shaped village, while six villages would form a city of more than 10,000 inhabitants. Source: RT. See note.
A traffic toll on the most polluting vehicles starts to be applied in London
Transport for London (TFL), the company that manages transport in the capital, began applying a new traffic toll to the most polluting vehicles in London on Monday. The aim is to reduce the number of vehicles in the city and it is estimated that approximately 40,000 cars will be affected daily. Drivers of the oldest and most polluting cars will have to pay from today a surcharge of 12.50 pounds (14.50 euros) if they want to drive through the center of the capital. Source: EFE Green. See note.
Universities that contribute the most to the Sustainable Development Goals
If you are considering which university to study at and it is important to you that it is an institution that generates a positive impact on society, you will be interested to know that the British magazine Times Higher Education (THE) has launched a new ranking in which it classifies the universities that have contributed the most to the achievement of the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Source: Educaweb. See note.
Plastic soccer field built out of Russian World Cup garbage
Around 50 thousand glasses used during the last World Cup in Russia were used to create the ‘Budweiser ReCup Arena’. Budweiser, official sponsor of the 2018 FIFA World Cup Russia, and the company behind the stadium, estimated that more than 3.2 million cups were used during last year's tournament. It used 50,000 of these to build the new stadium, the first to be made entirely from recycled plastic. Source: El Espectador. See note.
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