Arnhem, Netherlands, has adopted OpenRemote’s open-source IoT solution to develop an intelligent energy management system.
This new energy management platform will allow city officials to...
Today, the British Prime Minister will commit to protecting 30% of the UK’s natural environment and biodiversity by 2030.
National parks, ‘areas of outstanding natural...
Scientists at Shinshu University, Japan, have developed a method of capturing microplastics from wastewater using specialist acoustic technologies.
Scientists estimate that the amount of plastic...
The European Commission has launched a €1bn call for research projects that respond to issues caused by the current climate crisis. The Commission is looking to fund projects that aim to safeguard Europe's ecosystems and biodiversity.
Applications are now open...
The UK Government have announced the launch of a Green Gas Levy to reduce emissions from the gas grid and prevent 21.6 million tonnes of CO2 entering the atmosphere.
Funded by the new Green Gas Levy, the UK Government is...
The European Commission aims to cut greenhouse gas emissions by at least 55% over the next decade, with €750bn available through the NextGenerationEU recovery fund to invest in Europe’s green transition.
The target, which will position the EU to become...
Will Simonson, Senior Programme Officer for Climate Change and Biodiversity at the UN Environment Programme World Conservation Monitoring Centre (UNEP-WCMC), discusses some of the main points made in The State of the World’s Forests 2020 report.
Published at the close...
According to the United Nations Conference on Trade and Development (UNCTAD) the Earth has been hit by a ‘tidal wave of COVID-19 waste’, including plastic face masks, gloves, hand sanitiser bottles and food packaging.
UNCTAD estimates that coronavirus lockdowns have...
The Chief Executive of the UK’s National Institute of Agricultural Botany (NIAB), Tina Barsby OBE, spoke to The Innovation Platform about the history of the institute and crop innovation.
There are many challenges facing crop innovation in the agriculture sector...
Cittadinanzattiva’s Mariano Votta and Tiziana Toto discuss the SI(e)NERGIA and NUDGE projects in the context of how the behaviour of citizens can play a crucial role in energy efficiency and thus a low-carbon, climate resilient future.
It is not only...
Professor Andy Peters, programme director of the University of Edinburgh’s Supporting Evidence Based Interventions (SEBI) project, discusses livestock health and its relationship with contagious diseases.
Livestock health plays a crucial role in our lives. Livestock provides meat, milk, and eggs...
The mass of plastics in the Atlantic Ocean is approximately 21 million tonnes, according to research conducted by the National Oceanography Centre.
This figure is only for three of the most common types of plastic litter in a limited size...
As climate change threatens global food supplies, innovators look to land-based aquaculture as a solution to increasing nutrition security.
As sea temperatures peak and our soil continues to degrade, land-based aquaculture could ensure global nutrition security. Land-based aquaculture allows fish...
