The European Parliament has approved the Taxonomy Regulation that will determine which financial investments can be labelled environmentally sustainable.

In a new report WWF says that the environmental factors driving the emergence of zoonotic diseases are the trade and consumption of high-risk wildlife, land-use change leading to deforestation and conversion, expansion of agriculture and unsustainable intensification and animal production.

As a result of a “failure” to prevent or immediately contain the outbreak in Beijing, several local officials were removed from office. China has now deployed 100,000 responders in the city to support the response activities.

Extreme poverty could rise to over 1 billion people globally as a result of the crisis.

The European Union Aviation Safety Agency announced the certification of an electric airplane, the Pipistrel Velis Electro, the first type certification world-wide of a fully electric aircraft.

Analysis identifies 23 US states and Puerto Rico with increasing COVID-19 incidence over the past 2 weeks, including 5 states with more than double the daily incidence compared to 2 weeks ago.

Temperate insects might be just as vulnerable to climate change as tropical species, according to a recent study. Earlier models failed to take into account the fact that insects in temperate habitats are inactive for much of the year.

Social distancing and other interventions may have prevented 62 million confirmed COVID-19 cases worldwide, which corresponds to an estimated 530 million total SARS-CoV-2 infections.

Kazakhstan has documented 215 cases of COVID-19, a disease caused by the novel coronavirus.

Falling demand and rising investment risk is likely to slash the value of oil, gas and coal reserves by nearly two thirds.