A dutch teenager had a dream to clean up the world's oceans. 11 years on and the dream is coming true. The Ocean Cleanup is on track to cut the plastic garbage patch by 90%. The Great Pacific Garbage Patch is one of the most visible damage humans continue to wreak on the planet.

It's official: France bans short haul domestic flights in favour of train travel. The European Commission has approved the move which will abolish flights between cities that are linked by a train journey of less than 2.5 hours. Which countries are next? https://t.co/2RlJMcyuTl

Dirty river in, clean river out. This is how to close the plastic tap. 18 billion pounds of plastic ends up in the ocean each year. A few major rivers play an important role in bringing plastic waste to the ocean and we need to stop this. It's time we stop making a mess.

#Dutch tech universities are the top in Europe: 'startups are an important job creator here'. The 4 technical universities generate €12.7 billion a year for the Netherlands. Every euro invested in the universities has a return on investment of 900%. https://t.co/ogAoxIIKtD

These are the world’s 10 greenest (big) cities. It is great to see #Amsterdam (for now) in 2nd place. To create net-zero cities, we need to focus on making old buildings energy efficient and future-proof. Around 80% of the buildings we have today will exist in 2050.

Europe is insanely warm right now. It has never been this warm so late in the year for some. Can't believe it is only 43 days until Christmas.

A Swedish #startup designed this fully electric passenger plane! This plane can carry 30 people over a distance of 200 km. We need to scale this up and ensure that the flight distance and capacity of new electric planes increases. This could be the start of electric aviation.

Hungry for change! #Interceptor007 is unleashed in Los Angeles and is cleaning up 30-50 tonnes of plastic a year in one of it's most polluted waterways. 3 years ago, the first interceptor was launched to catch plastic in rivers before it reaches the sea. https://t.co/PIbU7QD3lc

These 'seabins' clean up plastic from the ocean. There are 860 bins now, each cleaning up 90,000 plastic bags a year. A brilliant solution, we need to scale-up a combination of solutions like this to clean up the 18 billion tonnes of plastic that enters the ocean every year.

#Dutch students have built this electric car that captures carbon. It uses 2 filters that suck in up to 2KG of CO2 over 30.000 km of driving. To meet sustainable energy goals, we need 230 million electric cars on the road by 2030. There are now 10 million electric car.

Epic! This renewable energy system turns ocean waves into electricity.💧⚡️ The system use magnets to connect plates that generate electricity through waves. The device can be made from recycled plastic. A brilliant solution to scale-up the renewable energy capacity worldwide.

Soccer legend Lionel Messi plans to get into tech investing via a new Silicon Valley holding company https://t.co/HHWoOmh34b by @mikebutcher

Frisian bio-tech startup Paques Biomaterials invests 58 million euros in a new factory in Emmen! At the factory, Paques will produce the biopolymer PHA from biological waste streams. This is a natural alternative to plastic. Proud of these BeStart alumni! https://t.co/e9s2T9oLbH

8.3 billion tonnes of plastic have been produced by humans. Only 9% has ever been recycled. Conventional plastic can take hunderds of years to break down and it is a hard material to recycle. It is time to ban this type of plastic and switch to materials that are recyclable.

6,500 migrant workers died to host the #FIFAWorldCup in #Qatar. In one month we will all turn on the TV to watch the matches as if nothing has happened. But is this the price we are willing to pay for a tournament? It is shameless that we all look away. https://t.co/Jwq52rPTkX

Lightrock, the London-based private equity firm, has closed a €860 million ($835 million) climate impact fund, its first investment pool for companies working to reduce carbon emissions

Amsterdam-based Crisp, an app-only supermarket focused on ultra-fresh food, has raised an investment of €75 million. Crisp has doubled the number of orders over the past year and this month also announced the acquisition of local supplier Eetfabriek. https://t.co/fgUR7sv5FA

This National Geographic cover from 2018 was definitely one for the ages: planet or plastic for the next generation? 18 billion pounds of plastic ends up in the ocean each year and that's just the tip of the iceberg. After all these years it's time we stop making a mess.

Epic! The Netherlands ranks fifth in the Global Innovation Index 2022. The Global Innovation Index by WIPO (World Intellectual Property Organisation) is the list of most innovative countries in the world 1. Switzerland🇨🇭 2. U.S.🇺🇸 3. Sweden🇸🇪 4. U.K.🇬🇧 5. Netherlands 🇳🇱

Every 90 minutes, enough sunlight strikes the Earth to meet our energy needs for a year. ☀️🌍 Thereby, solar is the quickest energy source to deploy and the cost of solar panels has fallen 89% over the past decade. We need and can increase solar power generation.