Food waste is a major issue in Romania. According to UNEP data for 2021, Romanians discard roughly 74 kgs of food per capita each year. Every day, around 6,000 tons of food or approximately 10% of the total sold is disposed of in landfills.
A two-day ‘Environmental & Sustainability Summit’ was recently organized on the 28th and 29th of September 2022 by the Business Review Magazine at The Marmorosch Bucharest, Autograph Collection, Bucharest.
Like any other major city, Budapest uses a lot of decorative lighting to beautify the city, especially the statues and monuments of cultural value. Such beautification is enjoyed both by the residents as well as the tourists.
The Global Climate Strike, organized by Greta Thunberg’s ‘Fridays for Future’ movement was held across the world and in Budapest as well on the 23rd of September 2022.
Ahead of COP27, Cairo attempts to shed the tag as one of the world’s most polluted cities. As Egypt prepares to host the COP27 climate change conference city of Sharm El Sheikh in November, its capital Cairo is likely to be in the limelight as well.
In collaboration with the United Nations Development Program (UNDP), the Cairo International Center for Conflict Resolution, Peacekeeping, and Peacebuilding (CCCPA), an Egyptian public agency, hosted the first preparatory meeting to go over the components of a new initiative on climate change and the sustainability of peace.
Fundația9, an NGO in Bucharest recently launched ‘One Minute Older’, a campaign to raise awareness of the impact plastic has on our lives, through art. One minute older is the winner of a grant from the ‘Climate of Change’ program, a European program run by a consortium that brings together 23 countries and 26 partner organizations and financed by the European Commission's Development Education and Awareness Program (DEAR).
Throughout history, Egyptian monarchs, citizens, and tourists have been drawn to Alexandria's beautiful Qaitbay Citadel, but rising sea levels threaten to flood it and cause it to vanish by the year 2100.
Following a comment made by British Prime Minister Boris Johnson while attending the COP26 in Glasgow, Scotland, a feeling of unease pervaded Egypt. He said, “When the temperature rises only 4 degrees, we will say goodbye to entire cities, which are Miami, Alexandria, and Shanghai, they will all sink underwater.”
In a world projected to be devastated due to climate change if we do not do enough about it, cycling has found renewed importance. Studies have shown that switching from car in cities to cycling even just one day a week can reduce your carbon footprint by about half a ton of CO₂ over a year.
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Technology is a useful servant, but a dangerous master, it was rightly said. Electronic devices have grown into an inevitable part of our daily lives.