Carbon neutrality

Ljubljana – Environment Minister Andrej Vizjak met President Borut Pahor on Monday ahead of the nearing fifth anniversary of signing of the Paris Agreement. The pair agreed on closer cooperation between the ministry and Pahor’s permanent advisory committee on climate change.

Ljubljana – Gen-I has announced that, as of 2021, it will be able to offer customers electricity produced solely from environmentally friendly and zero-carbon sources, in an effort with which the power producer intends to reduce the carbon footprint of Slovenian households by 1.65 million tonnes of CO2 compared to 2019.

Hundreds of Amazon employees have openly criticized the environmental position of the online retail giant in violation of the company's communications policy.

More than 300 employees have signed a Medium blog post by Amazon Employees for Climate Justice (AECJ) which urges the company to go further in its plan to tackle climate change, which was announced to the public in September.

To be sure, the tasks confronting the European Union are daunting. Even reading the new document is daunting: a seeming welter of plans, consultations, frameworks, laws, budgets and diplomacy, and many interconnected themes, ranging from energy to transport to food to industry.

Denmark and 10 other EU countries have called for the creation of a European strategy for the gradual decommissioning of diesel and petrol cars, including allowing the ban of sales at member state-level by 2030 to combat climate change, Reuters reported. .

Denmark made the proposal on Friday at an European meeting of environment ministers held in Luxembourg, BTA reported.

German Economy Minister Peter Altmaier tries to calm and to address students and pupils who staged a potest as part of the "Fridays for Future", on Jan. 25 in front of the Economy Ministry in Berlin where the coal commission met with the minister. Banner behind reads "meet climate goals".

Athens International Airport recently became carbon neutral after certification by an independent body which attested to the fact that the airport had managed to reduce its CO2 emissions. The airport achieved Level 3+ Neutrality, certified by the independent carbon management program Airport Carbon Accreditation.

Ankara's Esenboğa Airport has sustains its carbon emissions at the optimum level through energy efficiency, its operator said in a written statement on Dec. 19. 

Carbon dioxide is considered bad because it causes global warming, and it’s also a highly political issue, as evidenced by the fact that U.S. democrats want to impose regulations to reduce emissions, while Republicans want to do away with them altogether.