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Refugees are up-cycling their discarded life jackets and dinghies

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Lesvos Solidarity is a non-profit organisation that not only provides medical support and shelter, but also hosts workshops for refugees in which they up-cycle things such as life jackets and dinghies that pile up on the shores of Lesvos and tell the story of their harrowing journeys across the Aegean sea from Turkey. “

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Global CO2 emissions stalled for the third year in a row

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Also in Eurasia emissions grew in Turkey (5%) and Ukraine (8%). CH 4 is mainly generated by agricultural activities, the production of coal and gas, as well as waste treatment and disposal. Since 2015, the EU’s CO 2 emissions have stabilized, representing 9.6% In 2016, the EU’s CO 2 emissions were 20.8% below the levels in 2005.

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Volkswagen Group opts for LNG-fueled car carriers

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Apart from chemicals and waste disposal, the assessment criteria also include emissions of carbon dioxide, nitrogen oxides, particulate emissions and sulfur oxides. Since the end of 2015, material from Turkey for the Autoeuropa plant in Portugal has been shipped from Izmir to Lisbon by sea.

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AI Can Help Make Recycling Better

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billion tonnes of solid waste that the world produces every year gets recycled. Germany, on the high end, captures about 65 percent, while Chile and Turkey barely do anything, recycling a mere 1 percent of their trash, according to a 2015 report by the Organization for Economic Cooperation and Development (OECD).

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Renault 2010 Environment Workshop, Part 1: Combustion Engine Technology and Product Plans

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dCi (type K9K) diesel is the brand’s best-selling engine with almost 900,000 units manufactured in 2009, in Valladolid (Spain) and Bursa (Turkey). Scheduled for launch in 2012, it is expected to account for 85% of Renault’s gasoline engine sales in 2015. New-generation 1.5 dCi engines. The current 1.5

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AFED report: state of water resources in the Arab world is precarious and worsening

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Alarmingly, the 2010 report of the Arab Forum for Environment and Development (AFED) has found that Arabs will face, as early as 2015, the condition of severe water scarcity, at which the annual per capita share will be less than 500 cubic meters. Arabs cannot afford to waste a single drop of water.

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Global investment in renewable power reached $270.2B in 2014, ~17% up from 2013; biofuel investment fell 8% to 10-year low

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Additional highlights of the 9 th annual Global Trends in Renewable Energy Investment 2015 report include: China saw by far the biggest renewable energy investments in 2014—a record $83.3 billion) were all in the top 10 of investing countries while more than $1 billion was invested in Indonesia, Chile, Mexico, Kenya and Turkey.

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