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Coca-Cola carries out tests to manufacture bottle caps from CO2 emissions

Coca-Cola has revealed plans to make bottle caps using carbon dioxide (CO2) taken from the atmosphere. The company – one of the world's biggest users of plastic – is funding a three-year trial at Swansea University in the UK as part of its goal of net zero emissions by 2040.

➡️ A survey carried out in the United Kingdom warns that governments need to create more resilient food systems, capable of recovering from shocks caused by the worsening climate crisis, under penalty of possible shortages generating riots, insecurity and violence.

➡️ An investigation revealed that Migrants have been working in dangerously high temperatures to prepare facilities for the 2023 United Nations Climate Change Conference (COP28), which will take place in November this year, in Dubai, in the United Arab Emirates.

➡️ Researchers at Chalmers University of Technology, in Sweden, have developed a recycling method that allows the recovery of 100% of aluminum and 98% of lithium from electric car batteries. Know more!

➡️ Prolonged exposure to air pollution during and after pregnancy increases a woman's chances of experiencing postpartum depression, suggests a study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association.

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Countries from the Global South lead efforts to improve air quality, reveals ranking

Countries in the global south are leading global efforts to improve air quality as part of their national climate plans, according to a ranking that gives the highest scores to Colombia and Mali and places the United Arab Emirates, which will host the next UN Climate Conference (COP28), among the worst placed.

➡️ DeepMind, the artificial intelligence (AI) laboratory at Google, has used AI to tackle problems related to global warming.

What was news in Brazil

➡️ In a new survey, the MapBiomas network found that, between 1985 and 2022, there was a 15% reduction in the area occupied by natural forests in the country, increasing from 581,6 million hectares to 494,1 million hectares.

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London Marathon will charge foreign participants a climate fee to offset emissions

The organizers of the London Marathon have announced an initiative in which they will literally be running for carbon neutrality. The sporting event will charge a climate tax to international participants for their emissions during travel. The amount raised will be used to pay for removing carbon from the air.

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