Sustainable Solutions
14 June 2019
The soil conditioner presented at the 2016 Budapest Water Summit has received a green light in Kenya. The product of Water & Soil Ltd., which offers a 6-20 percent increase in productivity in agriculture without irrigation and a 50 percent water saving in irrigation agriculture has received a distribution licence.
The organic soil conditioning product that increases the soil’s capacity to retain water was presented at the 2016 Budapest Water Summit, and today, it is popular from Morocco to South Africa. Worldwide use could save water sufficient to supply several hundred million people.
said Richárd Vattay, Director of Water & Soil Ltd.
Professional use of the Water Retainer increases the ability of soil to retain water so that it is available for plants significantly. The improved availability of water is maintained throughout the cultivation period, while the damage caused by drought is also reduced, as even in severe drought conditions, plants will be able to survive without significant damage for twice as long. In agriculture without irrigation, this could result in a 6 to 20 percent increase in yields.
The other great advantage of the product is that when used together with an irrigation system, it can reduce the water requirement by about 50 percent. It reduces evaporation and retains water in the top layer of soil, what’s more, soil treated with the product is even able to recover water from the air. On an agricultural area of 100,000 hectares with 30 percent irrigation intensity, the product can save 120 million m3 of water per year, the annual water consumption of 2 million people.
A water industry exhibition entitled “Digital and Nature-Based Sustainable Solutions Expo” will be held alongside the Budapest Water Summit on 15-17 October 2019.
Only a few years after the brutally honest documentary Before the Flood, a new film has been made, featuring Leonardo DiCaprio, about the shocking consequences of global warming. Ice on Fire seeks to find out whether we can still reverse the impact of climate change.
The Central American country has been a paragon of environment-friendly governance for decades. It has set the ambitious goal of phasing out fossil fuels altogether by 2050.
At their meeting in Japan, the environment ministers of G20 countries agreed on a global framework for the introduction and application of measures to tackle the issue of marine plastic waste pollution.
During environmental and climate emergencies, local decision-makers must place an even greater emphasis on the principle of ecological sustainability in their decisions.
Competitors in the 1st Tisza Lake Plastic Cup collected almost three tonnes of waste over the three-day event. As the organisers and the participants emphasised, that is only the tip of the iceberg, as the floods of recent weeks have spread much more waste around the flood plain of the river.
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The town of Kamikatsu in Japan recycles 80 percent of all its waste, and it plans to reach full recycling by 2020.
The country has announced that it will enact a law declaring its commitment to achieving net zero carbon-dioxide emissions by 2050.
During Democratic Design Days, IKEA presented and announced several initiatives towards becoming people and planet positive. These include a new collection using waste plastic recovered from the Mediterranean, a prototype plant-based alternative to the meatball and an urban plant-growing collaboration with designer Tom Dixon.
The cooperation between Adidas and the environmental protection organisation Parley for the Oceans began four years ago. It was in 2015 that they joined forces to create the Parley UltraBOOST running shoes, which have the special feature of being made from plastic waste fished out of the oceans and recycled polyester.
The European Commission has proposed an EU budget of over €168 billion (more than HUF 53.8 trillion) for 2020 for a more competitive European economy, the creation of jobs, combating climate change and for promoting solidarity and security.
