{"id":46743,"date":"2024-12-31T12:00:20","date_gmt":"2024-12-31T11:00:20","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/sustainability-the-good-news-from-2024\/"},"modified":"2025-01-03T19:15:54","modified_gmt":"2025-01-03T18:15:54","slug":"sustainability-the-good-news-from-2024","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/sustainability-the-good-news-from-2024\/","title":{"rendered":"Sustainability. The good news from 2024"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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As the year draws to a close, we’ve decided to take a look back at the best things that happened in 2024 in the area of sustainability. Here’s the good news: <\/strong><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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1.In England, more than 8,300 people with mental health problems were prescribed time spent in nature<\/strong>. Happiness levels increased<\/a> and anxiety levels decreased<\/span><\/p>\n

2. Data published in October revealed that emissions in the European Union fell by 8% in 2023<\/a><\/strong>, meaning that greenhouse gas pollution is now 37% below 1990 levels.<\/span><\/p>\n

3. In August, a historic law<\/a> came into force to reverse the loss of biodiversity in the EU. The law<\/strong><\/span> requires all EU countries to restore and protect wildlife<\/strong> on a fifth of their land and seas by 2030.<\/span><\/p>\n

4. The 2026 European Green City Award goes to Guimar\u00e3es<\/strong> and the 2026 European Green Leaf Award to \u00c1gueda<\/strong>. The cities will receive 600,000 and 200,000 euros respectively to continue improving environmental sustainability. <\/span><\/p>\n

5. More than 80% of the energy<\/strong> generated in Portugal comes from renewable sources<\/a>. The <\/span>target set by the government is 80% by 2026.<\/span><\/p>\n

6. Alandmark decision<\/a> by the European Court of Human Rights ruled in favor of the women’s organization <\/strong>– most of whom are around 70 years old – and ordered Switzerland to change its climate strategy.<\/span><\/p>\n

7. Citieschanging: <\/span><\/strong>Paris<\/a> bets on more green spaces and closes roads to cars. <\/span>London charges 16 dollars for non-low emission cars and creates over 400 km of cycle paths<\/span><\/p>\n

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onservation interventions<\/strong> – including the creation of protected areas and the eradication of invasive species – have increased biodiversity<\/a> or slowed its decline in the majority of cases (66%).<\/span><\/p>\n

9. The Sounds Right<\/a> initiative recognizes nature as a “musician”.<\/strong> They now raise funds from the royalties of songs produced and played on streaming platforms that use nature sounds. <\/span><\/p>\n

10. The global second-hand clothing<\/strong> market is expected to reach 325 billion euros by 2028 and will represent 10% of the global fashion market by 2025. Here<\/a> you can see some of the best Portuguese second-hand clothes stores.<\/span><\/p><\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t

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Marta Cerqueira is from Minho and a vegetarian. Luckily, she lives in Lisbon, where there is more tofu than sarrabulho.\nShe has been a journalist for over 15 years, the last of which writing about food and sustainability. Now, out of the newsroom, she continues to write whenever she can, be it in magazines, journals, post its, or on her Instagram page, which she uses to share a life divided between being a mom-person-foodie-traveler. Still, she created Peggada so she could write about what doesn't fit in a magazine, journal, post it or Instagram: a better world.<\/h2>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t
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You can read more texts from Marta here.<\/a><\/h3>\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t<\/section>\n\t\t
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This article promotes an action that encourages the reduction of waste generation<\/strong> through prevention, reduction, recycling, and reuse.<\/p>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t

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\u27a1\ufe0f To discover more businesses that are aligned with Sustainable Development Goal 12 “Sustainable Production and Consumption” click here<\/a>. <\/p>\n

\u27a1\ufe0f For news, tips and interviews about this topic, click here.<\/a><\/p>\n

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As the year draws to a close, we’ve decided to take a look back at the best things that happened in 2024 in the area of sustainability. Here’s the good news: 1.In England, more than 8,300 people with mental health problems were prescribed time spent in nature. Happiness levels increased and anxiety levels decreased 2. […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":46694,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[540],"tags":[4120,4122,2856,4121,550],"class_list":["post-46743","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-news","tag-2024-en","tag-good-news","tag-marta-cerqueira-en","tag-news","tag-sustainability"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46743","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=46743"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/46743\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/46694"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=46743"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=46743"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/peggada.com\/en\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=46743"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}