Top Stories of the Week: February 14-18

                                       A roundup of this week's top stories:

• How close is the UK to its climate goals?

  Many nations across the globe have set goals to reduce active greenhouse gas emissions by 100% over the coming decades and strides towards sustainability have seen greater investment and support since the start of the millennium...

• BioNTech has created a mobile vaccine factory for rollout in Africa

  BioNTech, the German biotech firm that co-developed the first Western Covid-19 shot, has unveiled a mobile vaccine factory to aid the vaccine rollout across regions with limited access to supplies...

• Volkswagen CEO expects semiconductor shortage to ease later this year

  The CEO of German automaker Volkswagen has said that he expects the semiconductor shortage to continue throughout 2022, but that the company should be able to ramp up production in the second half of the year...

• ABB tech could monitor the Earth's climate from orbit

  ABB tech could be used to monitor the Earth's climate from orbit, as it secures a $30 million contract with Canada's EarthDaily for imaging systems that will be placed in 10 satellites around the planet's orbit...

• This smart textile could turn your curtains into a TV

  A new "smart" textile with inbuilt sensors that could turn your curtains, carpet or sheets into TVs has been developed by an international team of researchers headed up by the University of Cambridge...

• "Trash into treasure": Carolina chemists make recycled plastics stronger

  A group of chemists at the University of North Carolina (UNC) at Chapel Hill claim to have developed a way to break down plastic waste and turn it into stronger and more valuable products...

• Rolls-Royce & Luxaviation to develop eVTOL vertiports

  Rolls-Royce is teaming up with luxury jet and helicopter provider Luxaviation to develop vertiports for the nascent eVTOL sector...