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ISRAEL AT WAR - DAY 365

carbon emissions

View of the Orot Rabin power plant at Sdot Yam beach, central Israel, April 11, 2023. (Yossi Aloni/Flash90)
July 21, 2024, 7:20 pm
Just 25% of planned steps to cut emissions completed by ministries – report
Environmental Protection Ministry’s annual update on implementation of 241 policy measures is latest in string of reports slamming government’s inaction on climate change
By Sue Surkes
Iran-backed Houthis in Yemen publish a video showing how the group hijacked an Israeli-linked shipping vessel in the Red Sea on November 20, 2023. (Screen capture/X)
April 24, 2024, 3:06 pm
Carbon emissions from shipping rise as freight vessels steer clear of Houthis
Pollution from ships sailing from Far East to Mediterranean up 63% in Q1, up 23% for vessels journeying from Far East to Europe, new index shows
By Sue Surkes
A wildfire burning through the night. (Cathy Withers-Clarke, iStock/Getty Images)
August 3, 2023, 4:22 pm
‘Oppenheimer’ offers a timely warning on the dangers of the climate crisis
Scientists thought the chances of an A-bomb destroying Earth were ‘near zero.’ We know now that climate change could obliterate humanity, but we continue along our destructive path
By Sue Surkes
Enlight Renewable Energy's Genesis Wind project on the Golan Heights in northern Israel, June 2023. (Yehuda Weinberg)
June 14, 2023, 1:34 am
Renewable energy company starts testing first of 39 wind turbines on Golan Heights
Genesis Wind, due to become operational in September, will be country’s biggest renewable energy provider, supplying sufficient green energy to power 70,000 homes a year
By Sue Surkes
The Tarbin Tribe of Bedouins lives next to the Dudaim dump site, the largest landfill in Israel, near the city of Rahat in southern Israel, seen on August 10, 2016. (Yaniv Nadav/ Flash90/ File)
May 1, 2023, 10:36 pm
Israel falling far behind its own global warming emissions targets
Annual review predicts 12% cut in emissions by 2030, despite pledge of 27% to UN; just 19% of energy from renewable sources expected by that date, compared to target of 30%
By Sue Surkes
Envoy Technologies has created an on-demand EV sharing service charging drivers by the hour or by the day by using a mobile app. (Courtesy)
April 27, 2023, 4:34 pm
Israeli-founded EV sharing startup Envoy bought by Blink Charging in $34m deal
Startup’s electric car sharing platform is used at apartment buildings, hotels and workplaces; deal comes as tech startups struggle to raise funds
By Sharon Wrobel
Corn seedlings treated with Grace Breeding's NFT biofertlizer, Londrina University, Brazil, November 5, 2022. (Assaf Dotan)
February 13, 2023, 11:13 pm
Israeli company touts nature-based alternative to toxic fertilizers for crops
Grace Breeding says combining its plant-based ‘bioactivator’ with soil bacteria slashes need for harmful synthetic nitrogen, cuts carbon emissions, water use and farmers’ costs
By Sue Surkes
Human-generated refuse (mbaysan by iStock by Getty Images)
February 1, 2023, 8:09 pm
To fill vacuum, NGO seeks to create local, regional carbon trading scheme
Former PMO official coordinating initiative for new nonprofit that aims to build system that will reliably measure the ability of projects to offset emissions
By Sue Surkes
Construction using concrete together with GreenVibe technology, October 2022 (courtesy GreenVibe)
November 25, 2022, 5:50 am
A concrete challenge: Tel Aviv tech startup uses sensors to ensure better building
GreenVibe says its hardware and software system can provide real-time insights about on-site construction material and offer data-driven predictions about quality and readiness
By Danielle Nagler
The former fishpond at Kfar Ruppin in northern Israel that is undergoing rewilding. (Omri salner, Society for the Protection of Nature in Israel)
November 17, 2022, 2:33 pm
Company tries to offset carbon footprint of Israeli COP27 delegates
Through online questionnaire, Terrra will work out, and offer way to offset, emissions in bid to raise awareness among 1,000-plus Israeli contingent at UN confab in Egypt
By Sue Surkes
A mother pushes a stroller in front of the Scholven coal-fired power station, owned by Uniper, in Gelsenkirchen, Germany, March 28, 2022 (AP Photo/Martin Meissner, File)
November 11, 2022, 1:07 pm
Scientists predict CO2 fossil fuel emissions to reach record high in 2022
Pollution from oil will likely rise more than 2% compared to last year, while emissions from coal to hit a new peak, amid pandemic recovery and energy crisis caused by Ukraine war
By Marlowe HOOD
Egyptian President Abdel Fattah el-Sissi (L), Israeli President Isaac Herzog (C), and UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres at the UN COP 27 in conference, November 7, 2022 (Haim Zach/GPO)
November 7, 2022, 10:29 am
Herzog arrives at COP27, touting vision of regional cooperation on climate change
President meets world leaders, opens first-ever Israeli pavilion at UN environment confab, though he arrives without government backing for net zero carbon emissions by 2050
By ToI Staff
Yoram Gill, founder and chairman of Shoresh/Source sandals, welcomes Energy Ministry Karine Elharrar and dignitaries at the production plant in Tirat Carmel in northern Israel, September 22, 2022. (Liron Cohen Aviv, for Shoresh/Source)
November 3, 2022, 8:39 am
Walking on sunshine: Shoresh sandals factory converts to 100% solar energy
Company says it created its own mini-grid with solar panels everywhere and switched its fleet to all-electric, as other firms also eye ways to go net zero on carbon emissions
By Sue Surkes
US Sen. Joe Manchin, a West Virginia Democrat, and Competitive Power Ventures CEO Gary Lambert, right, speak at a news conference Friday, September 16, 2022, in Charleston, West Virginia. CPV plans to build a natural gas power plant designed to capture climate-changing carbon in West Virginia. (AP Photo/John Raby)
September 17, 2022, 2:25 am
Subsidiary of Israeli company to build US gas power plant designed to capture carbon
Competitive Power Ventures of Silver Spring, Maryland, will construct 1,800-megawatt plant in West Virginia
By John Raby
Construction materials at a Netanya supply site, August 2022 (Danielle Nagler)
September 16, 2022, 5:49 am
Israel belatedly looks to green construction for concrete fix to polluting buildings
Reducing carbon emissions is a national priority, but that means reinventing the way structures are built and occupied; several Israeli companies are innovating new solutions
By Danielle Nagler
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