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Schneider Electric Moves Forward with Its Sustainability Impact Targets, Mobilizing Support from Employees, Partners and Customers

Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, published today its half-year progress overview on setting up and advancing on its 2021-2025 sustainability impact targets.

From Schneider Electric 30 Jul 2021

Riverrecycle Partners with Clean Planet Energy in Southeast Asia to Turn Thousands of Tonnes of Waste-Plastics from the Environment into Ultra-Clean Energy

Riverrecycle and Clean Planet Energy have today announced that they have entered into a partnership agreement in a bid to support global efforts of removing non-recyclable plastics from rivers and the environment in Southeast Asia, and then re-purposing the waste as new ultra-clean fuels.

From Clean Planet Energy 30 Jul 2021

Advanced Engineering Strategies Enable More Sustainable Biomanufacturing Industry

An international group of researchers led by Monash University is reshaping the industrial biomanufacturing sector by using environmentally destructive by-products such as methane and carbon dioxide to create medicines, consumables and industrial goods.

30 Jul 2021

Microvast and Eversum to Jointly Drive Urban Commercial Vehicle Electrification

Microvast Holdings, Inc. (“Microvast”), a leading global provider of next-generation battery technologies for commercial and specialty vehicles, and eVersum, a high-tech vehicle OEM specializing in the design, development and build of the most purposefully engineered electric commercial vehicles for passenger transport, will join forces to develop state-of-the-art battery solutions to electrify the current and future lines of eVersum’s purpose-built, purely “eBorn,” electric vehicles.

From eVersum 30 Jul 2021

Study Estimates Environmental and Health Impacts of Bottled Water

New research undertaken by scientists from the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), a center supported by the “la Caixa” Foundation, affirms that the better option for individual water consumption considering both environmental and health impacts is tap water.

29 Jul 2021

New Research Projects Aim to Build a Sustainable Future for the Marine Economy

Six new research projects that aim to build a sustainable future for the marine environment and those whose livelihoods depend on it were announced today.

26 Jul 2021

Planting Seeds for Revival of Vital Drylands

Restoration of degraded drylands is urgently needed to mitigate climate change, reverse desertification and secure livelihoods for the two billion people who live there, experts warn in a major new paper in Nature Ecology & Evolution.

23 Jul 2021

Plastic Free Mersey Project Launched Today in Liverpool

Two major rivers trusts are joining forces to work with communities, researchers, and businesses in the plastics supply and waste management chain to identify plastic litter types in the Mersey catchment.

23 Jul 2021

Monash University and West Java Government Partner to Revitalise Polluted Citarum River

Monash University and the Provincial Government of West Java, Indonesia today signed a Letter of Intent to collaborate on developing new solutions to restore the Citarum River – one of the most polluted rivers in t...

22 Jul 2021

Researchers Develop Sustainable One-Pot Process for Plastic Production

Tremendous efforts have been put forth by industries to attain sustainability, but plastics (or polymers) are mostly manufactured with non-renewable fossil fuels. Meanwhile, scientists have now come up with a feasible process to produce biobased acrylate resins.

21 Jul 2021