Year: 2024

The United Kingdom is Among Top Email Carbon Emitters with 2,751 Tons Daily: 2024 Study Reveals

Stuart Mitchell

Zero Bounce conducted research to identify the countries sending out the most emails daily, resulting in the most amount of CO2 emissions. The study used the most recent reports of population numbers from the World Population Review. The information about the percentage of email users was retrieved from the reports by Statista. The reports about the number of emails sent out per country were taken from the Talos Intelligence website. It is globally recognized that on average one email transaction emits 0.3 grams of CO2. The carbon footprint was calculated according…

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Better Cotton to Advance Gender Equality and Climate Resilience in India with New Impact Fund

Stuart Mitchell

Better Cotton, the world’s largest cotton sustainability initiative, and impact investment firm, FS Impact Finance, have signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) to jointly develop and launch a fund directed at smallholder farmers in the cotton sector. The fund, initially piloted in India, will help incentivise cotton farming communities to invest in field-level work related to women’s empowerment and climate resilience by eliminating traditional financing barriers. Smallholders, who make up more than 90% of the world’s cotton farmers, often struggle to access adequate financial support due to their Farmer Producer…

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Water Conservation Solutions From High School and University Teams Take Top Prize in 2024 Xylem Global Student Innovation Challenge

Stuart Mitchell

Global water technology leader Xylem recently announced that teams from the Philippines and Algeria were the grand prize winners of its 2024 Xylem Global Student Innovation Challenge. The annual program invites high school and university students worldwide to develop solutions to the world’s biggest water challenges. More than 4,400 students from 150 countries participated in this year’s challenge, which asked young innovators to tackle three critical water problems: reducing ocean plastic waste, raising awareness about sustainability and water conservation, and lowering indirect greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions with enhanced water purification…

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Explore Worldwide the first to offer SAF

Stuart Mitchell

New research shows that whilst people’s understanding of SAF and their environmental benefits is low (58% said they do not understand how a biofuel works), demand for sustainable solutions is high. The key findings include:   50% want to reduce the environmental impact of their travel 51% think the industry and consumers should both contribute financially to minimise the environmental impact of travel 45% agree the travel industry needs to develop aviation fuels that reduce carbon emissions With just weeks to go until the 100-day countdown to COP29 begins, Explore Worldwide,…

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Ryanair, Delta, Lufthansa, Easyjet among 71 airlines warned over potential greenwashing

Stuart Mitchell

Environmental groups have warned 71 airlines operating out of Schiphol airport that they must respect the greenwashing limits clarified by the legal precedent-setting Dutch Court ruling against KLM in March this year. ClientEarth, Fossielvrij and Reclame Fossielvrij have sent a legal letter warning that airlines should not promote common industry claims about ‘sustainable aviation fuels’, ‘offsetting’ and ‘net zero by 2050’ as they are likely to be unlawful. In March this year advertising by KLM promoting similar statements was found by the District Court of Amsterdam to have broken EU consumer…

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