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Central solar SunPower Total, Prieska (Foto: ZYLBERMAN LAURENT - GRAPHIX IMAGES - TOTAL)

BID vai financiar usina solar da Atlas Renewable Energy na Bahia

O BID Invest, braço de investimentos do Banco Interamericano de Desenvolvimento (BID), vai destinar US$ 67 milhões para financiar a construção da usina solar fotovoltaica Jacarandá, da Atlas Renewable Energy, no município de Juazeiro, na Bahia. Esta é a primeira vez que um projeto solar nacional é totalmente financiado em dólares. A usina vai gerar […]

Greenpeace’s flagship, the Rainbow Warrior, has been surrounded by giant single-use plastic items in Mediterranean waters. The action seeks to make visible the invisible, and to denounce the problem of plastic pollution in the oceans, especially in the Mediterranean Sea.

Activists placed ten giant objects representing some of the most frequently found items on beaches: two bottles of 12 meters, two glasses of 6 meters and giant straws and bottle caps. A banner of 60 m2, reads #NoPlastic.

Approximately 40% of the demand of plastic in Europe is for plastic packaging, most of it single-use. Also plastic packaging is the most common waste littered in the environment round the world. This action is part of the international campaign “Less plastic, more Mediterranean” in which the flagship of Greenpeace, Rainbow Warrior, is touring the Mediterranean to denounce the huge presence of plastic in the sea and to demand governments in the region to take urgent measures to stop this serious problem.

Indústria petroquímica lança fundo de US$ 1,5 bilhão para combater poluição com plástico

Iniciativa inclui grandes petroleiras como Chevron, ExxonMobil, Shell e Total