Sustainability News Update

With sustainability at the forefront of many people’s minds, it is a wonder why we don’t hear much about it in the news any more. Companies are enforcing travel policies to help prevent further damage to our environment, but if you don’t follow the right platform, or have the right connections, how are you to know what your efforts are doing to contribute to a more sustainable world.

That’s where I come in… As Sustainability Champion at Meon Valley Travel, I think it’s important to communicate progress, no matter how small, or how global, we need to celebrate it all.

Hannah - Sustainability

Hannah Leggett – Sustainability Champion 

2024 News

January 2024

Ryanair signs SAF agreement with Enilive.

January 2024

Poland’s new government has announced a halt to planned logging in what it says are some of the country’s most valuable forests.

January 2024

Three Norwegian oil and gas field permits invalidated on environmental grounds.

January 2024

The combination of wild flowers and solar energy facilities increases insect numbers. 

January 2024

The Environmental Protection Authority in New Zealand has banned the use of PFAS, also known as forever chemicals, from cosmetics.

February 2024

The European Commission recommended that the EU slash net greenhouse gas emissions by 90% by 2040.

February 2024

New record for nuclear fusion brings dream of clean energy closer.

February 2024

English North Sea and Scottish waters to ban sandeel fishing.

March 2024

Kenya’s Black Rhinos make unimaginable comeback as numbers reach 1,000 milestone.

March 2024

MethaneSAT was launched to track methane emissions and their sources worldwide.

March 2024

The EU now class ‘ecocide’ as a criminal offence.

March 2024

The World’s biggest clean energy plant is being built in India, 5 times the size of Paris.

April 2024

France and Brazil join forces to protect the Amazon Rainforest with $1.1b investment programme.

April 2024

No-fishing zones announced in Antarctica, covering an area equivalent to eight times the size of Wales

April 2024

Second-hand clothing marketing in the U.S. grew seven times faster than brand-new clothing sales.

April 2024

Greece becomes first European country to ban bottom trawling in marine protected areas.

May 2024

Game developers are helping people learn about climate change by incorporating causes, impacts and solutions into their games.

May 2024

Thousands of animals saved in Southern Thailand from illegal trafficking.

June 2024

Cambridge University have found a way to make concrete using little to no emissions.

June 2024

Australian scientists have developed an AI system on satellites that can detect bushfires 500 times faster than traditional methods.

June 2024

Two teenagers invented a device that can filter microplastics from water.

A Recap of Interesting Stuff from 2023

March 2023

The Global Ocean Treaty was signed.

March 2023

Investors in Solar Power overtook Oil Investors for the first time.

April 2023

The University of Sydney discovered a plastic eating fungus which could significantly reduce plastic pollution. 

May 2023

The Ozone layer is back on track to heal by 2040

July 2023

Brazil pledged to end deforestation in the Brazilian Amazon by 2030.

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