Paris votes to pedestrianize 500 streets, cutting cars and adding green spaces. Despite 66% approval, turnout was just 4%, sparking debate. Get all the details on today's "What's Right with the World".
What's right: China's Great Green wall completed
China's 46-year "Great Green Wall" transforms desert landscapes, inspiring global efforts like Africa's Great Green Wall to fight desertification and boost climate resilience.
What's right: indigenous representation in nature conservation
The Cop 16 biodiversity conference delegates have made the historic decision to establish a new body that will include Indigenous representatives in nature conservation decisions - a major acknowledgement of the critical role Indigenous communities play in protecting the environment and addressing climate change.
What's right: Fighting the global lack of drinking water
Engineers at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT) have developed a new method to generate drinking water. The solar-powered desalination system adapts its energy consumption based on sunlight availability. Get all the details on today's "What's right with the world".
What's right: Sweden cutting emissions by 70% while doubling economy
Sweden has found the most wanted recipe: The Scandinavian country has managed to cut 80% of its net greenhouse gas emissions since 1990 while doubling its economy. For comparison, on average, the EU countries only cut 30% of the greenhouse gases at the same time.
Get all the details on today's "What's right with the world".
What's right: Groundwater levels recover despite droughts
Despite increasing droughts, groundwater levels in Southern Europe are not dropping as drastically as expected; in some areas, they are even rising. Get all the details on today's "What's right with the world".
Local Matters: Happy Earth Overshoot Day
On 1 August, we reached earth overshoot day. According to Greenpeace Luxembourg, the Grand Duchy could make a major impact to improve the situation worldwide. To get all the details, listen to this week's Local Matters.
What's right: ‘Digital twin’ of Earth to predict future of climate change
The complex computer model, DestinE(arth), takes into account weather and climate systems as well as our impact on the planet and will be used to help Europe respond to natural disasters more effectively, adapt to climate change, and assess the potential socioeconomic and policy impacts of such events.
What's right: Is the rare grey whale back?
Scientists have spotted the rare grey whale that has been thought to be extinct for 200 years. The grey whale, which can weigh up to 27.215 kilograms showed up in the Atlantic Ocean, even though its natural habitat is the Pacific Ocean.
What's right: bisons aid in the fight against climate change.
It's the combination of grazing grasslands, recycling nutrients which fertilises the soil and dispersing seeds that compacts the soil to prevent carbon from being released.
What's right: Climate protection is a human right, ECHR rules
The more than 2000 Swiss women, called KlimaSeniorinnen, won a climate case in the European Court of Human Rights. The court ruled that Switzerland has failed to comply with its duties under the convention concerning climate change and violated the right to respect for private and family life.
EcoTalks: What's the difference between 'climate change' and 'global warming'?
‘Climate change’, ‘global warming’, ‘climate crisis’, ‘climate emergency’—terms to describe the current state of the planet are swarming on the news. But do they all mean the same thing? When do you use which one? And why is the term global warming sometimes undermining itself?
That’s what we’ll define in this episode of EcoTalks.
Climate crisis: Traces of the drought
As the world’s climate activists rise up and chose more disruptive means to recall the urgency, in Luxembourg anyone disrupts the functioning of society - although drought and heatwaves leave traces in nature as Claudine Feltgen from the Asbl natur&emwelt explains. Local Matters this week focuses on climate change and climate activism.
Local Matters: The impact of the drought on nature
Claudine Felten, forest engineer for the nature protection foundation natur&emwelt, about the impact of the drought on nature.
Local Matters: The challenges for the rescue service CGDIS
On Local Matters, Tom Barnig, director of operations at the national rescue service CGDIS, told us about the challenges provoked by the drought.
Local Matters: The impact of the drought on vineyards
In our interview on Local Matters, Marc Weyer, president of the Luxembourg's association of winegrowers, tells about the impact of the drought on the vineyards.
Getting to the Root of Climate Education!
Friday’s For Future took form out of the actions of our young people, the very ones whose future and existence is at risk. Now, our young people, are thinking about their young people, and what it will take to create a sustainable future from the ground-up.
The winds of change have blown a number of times, but what does it take to make that change sustainable? Education! That’s why, the International Team on Climate Education and Teach The Future UK activists are organising an online action to take place this week. It is expect that activists will speak out about the need for climate education in schools, the group has also promised to give a heads up to its April action targeting the European Heads of states.
The group demands that climate education be available for everyone, regardless of ethnicity, age, sex and social status and must be provided at every level of education. Equally, they expect climate education to be integrated into the core values of every curriculum and thus be taught in every subject and discipline. They insist students must learn about the scientific, social and ethical aspects of the climate crisis. They demand that educational institutions provide the tools and support to help students and teachers cope with climate anxiety and mental health issues. Education and understanding starts at the top, and therefore, according to the activists, all teachers must be trained in climate education and be provided with lesson schemes and teaching materials. Educational institutions should be far more engaged in developing responsibility for nature and society as well as engage students to practice active citizenship and they set all this against a target of all educational institutions being NET 0 by 2030, plus all newly built schools must be emissions-free.
Educate for the Future
The Climate Education Project, is a group of 80 activists from 35 countries and a part of a worldwide movement Fridays for Future. Through cooperating with climate specialists and advisors they are working on achieving one specific goal: to implement general climate education in schools. Without education there will no change and the public will be no wiser about issues the modern world faces. They demand that the climate crisis be taken seriously.