Environmental News Articles and Issues: 24 September 2019
ENVIRONMENTAL ISSUES:
This bug can eat plastic – but can it clean up our mess
https://www.nationalgeographic.com/news/2017/04/wax-worms-eat-plastic-polyethylene-trash-pollution-cleanup/?utm_source=reddit.com
Here’s how 6 countries are stepping up to meet the Paris climate goals
https://www.latimes.com/environment/story/2019-09-22/how-countries-are-meeting-climate-change-goals
Costa Rica receives UN highest environmental honour
https://www.energylivenews.com/2019/09/23/costa-rica-receives-uns-highest-environmental-honour/
Greta Thunberg: “How dare you!”
https://www.commondreams.org/news/2019/09/23/how-dare-you-greta-thunberg-rages-fairytales-eternal-economic-growth-un-climate
Budweiser to stop using plastic on its UK 4-pack beers
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/sep/23/budweiser-to-stop-using-plastic-for-all-its-uk-beer-four-packs-before-2021
Climate change targets need to be five times more ambitious
https://www.euronews.com/2019/09/22/watch-live-scientists-present-new-report-on-climate-change-effects-ahead-of-un-summit
Call for 1m people to join UK’s biggest mass tree-planting campaign
https://www.theguardian.com/environment/2019/sep/23/call-for-1m-people-join-uk-biggest-mass-tree-planting-campaign