The municipality of Tel Aviv-Jaffa is piloting a new, environmentally friendly system designed to provide shade during the day and serve as a lighting installation once the sun sets in the city’s Atidim Park.
Israel is to follow other developed nations by introducing a carbon tax, the government announced on Monday in a statement approved by the Tax Authority and the Finance, Energy, Environmental Protection and Economy ministries.
Israel Ambassador to the US Gilad Erdan says he just got off the phone with the Biden administration's climate envoy, John Kerry, during which they discussed "the environmental challenges we are facing."
While three-quarters of those surveyed acknowledge the need to act on environmental concerns, only a third take it into account in casting their ballots.
In a dramatic twist to last week's news that the American multinational Chevron Corporation is set to enter the Israeli oil and gas sector by buying out Texas-based Noble Energy, part owner of offshore natural gas fields, activists on Monday used a Knesset committee meeting on climate change to question the company's pollution record.
Energy Minister Yuval Steinitz announced Monday that the target for renewable energy by 2030 was officially being raised from 17 percent to 30%, in a plan set to cost some NIS 80 billion ($22 billion) over the coming decade.
