Sustainability

• [New] Increasingly frequent, extreme weather events linked to climate change are causing devastation to toilets, water supplies, waste systems and treatment facilities, threatening the health of some of the poorest people in the world.
• [New] Post-COVID-19 investments in infrastructure, combined with demand to sustain the energy transition, will drive significant growth in the mining and metals sector over the next three to five years.
• [New] The U.S. set up intensive systems to track the safety of COVID-19 vaccines, knowing that side effects too rare to have occurred in studies of thousands of people could pop up once millions rolled up their sleeves.
• [New] The emperor penguin, for example, is considered Near Threatened by the IUCN because is projected to undergo a moderately rapid population decrease as Antarctic sea ice begins to disappear within the next few decades owing to the effects of climate change.
• [New] A focus on SDG 7 can supercharge a Decade of Action and the realization of all SDGs, which the world committed to meet by 2030, while facilitating the implementation of the Paris Agreement ratified by 190 countries to undertake ambitious efforts to combat climate change and adapt to its effects.
• [New] Chinese firms could eventually dominate sectors that Europeans consider to be key to their security, weakening the EU's resilience and its quest for strategic autonomy.
• [New] The slowness of policy actions to take effect meant more rapid, radical change was needed if New Zealand was to cut emissions by around 50% by 2030, in line with the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change's recommendation.
• [New] The work to reduce emissions this decade could create more than 3 million jobs and increase economic output in the U.S. by nearly $500 billion a year by 2030, and $1 trillion by 2050.
• [New] The COVID-19 vaccines that have been approved by Health Canada are safe, effective and will save lives.
• [New] The market for biomass wood pellets for renewable generation in Europe and Asia is expected to grow in the current decade, principally driven by demand in Asia.
• [New] The $10 million project, named the Multi-University Center on Chemical Upcycling of Waste Plastics, will develop scientific and engineering principles to enable the upcycling of plastic wastes into virgin plastic resins using chemical technology.
• [New] India has the opportunity to plan for the combination of rooftop solar with storage - both small-scale batteries and electric vehicles.
• [New] Companies will need to illustrate the role that they intend to play - not only in combating climate change - but in forging a business model that is resilient to, and profitable in, the low carbon, resource-efficient economy of the 21st century.
• [New] The emissions behind electric vehicles do not end with the making of batteries: without major shifts in how China makes its electricity, electric vehicles driven in China will be effectively charged with coal.
• [New] As the global leader in 767 converted freighter dry leasing, ATSG provides dry leasing customers the opportunity to cost effectively grow capacity to meet market demands.
• [New] In adults aged under 50 years where the benefits of protection against COVID-19 are likely to outweigh the risks of the side effect, the AstraZeneca vaccine can be used.
• [New] The Agriculture Department will receive $1.7 billion for forest resilience projects and $400 million for rural electricity companies to help decarbonize their utility grids by 2035.
• [New] An effective restart presents an opportunity to recover the GBP 49 billion worth of UK GDP that has been lost over the last year and to save the 860,000 jobs that are currently at risk.
• [New] Threats such as climate change and populations growing across the world indicate that sustainable and responsible investment approaches that seek to consider environmental good and financial return are in demand.
• [New] Investments in clean energy and efficiency would support a historic energy efficiency and clean electricity standard that would transform the electric sector to be carbon pollution free by 2035 and create good paying union jobs.

Last updated: 17 April 2021