GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2019

BBOXX, an Imperial London College spinout launched in 2010, has installed about 200,000 home solar systems across Africa, many of them coffee and vanilla bean farmers living off-grid. Roughly 600 million of Africa’s 1.2 2, 2019 in London, UK.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

A new study appears to reveal rapid degradation in air quality in megacities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East – as well as increases in urban exposure to air pollutants hazardous to health. South Asia – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Chittagong, Dhaka, Hyderabad, Karachi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Surat.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

So conclude researchers at Utrecht University, who have developed a new water quality model they say will better appraise the current and future pollution status of rivers and streams globally. In addition to identifying hotspots of water quality issues, the model can help with attributing the source of pollution to particular sectors.

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Excessive heat and severe flooding has claimed thousands of lives across Europe, Asia, and Africa. It’s a strain on our power grid, agriculture and – most of all – people. It’s not just Texas of course.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

million rural households across eastern Africa. It is about more than just reducing emissions - it's about improving the health and well-being of women, who are the key agents of social and economic development in rural Africa. With around 1.5 Climate finance is just the means to a development end.".

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Projections to 2050 show that much of sub-Saharan Africa will be unsustainable, with 95% population growth projected, currently 738 million people lack adequate food and all but one country facing extreme water stress. · Citizens in three of the four biggest polluting countries have a low level of concern – China, India, and Russia. ·

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

North-West Africa (to meet European demand), and the southern Arabian Peninsula (to meet local demand and parts of south Asia). 90% of the world’s physical goods trade is transported by ships which burn heavy fuel oil and emit toxic pollutants. This accounts for nearly 3% of the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2021

Urgent steps to reduce the risks of water pollution, flooding, and drought are needed right across the world as part of broader measures to increase climate resilience, a major new University of Oxford-led research project has warned.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

These events’ aftermath can bring substantial financial losses – including damage to property and pollution of waters, soils, and ecological systems. Projections suggest this number will continue to rise, particularly in North America, Central Asia, and Africa.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Private jet travel is the most polluting mode of all, consuming lots of fuel yet carrying few passengers. Dubai is surrounded by conflict zones, which block land routes from Europe, Asia and Africa and makes flying there essential.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

More and more water resources are being polluted, overexploited, and dried up by humans, sometimes with irreversible consequences. Certain regions, such as Saharan Africa and the Middle East for example, hold substantial quantities of non-renewable groundwater supplies that can be extracted in order to maintain water security.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

UpEnergy said the emissions reductions were delivered through a new project in sub-Saharan Africa which it launched to replace traditional biomass burning stoves with electric stoves developed by climate tech start-up PowerUP. According to the World Health Organisation, fou million people a year die as a result of indoor air pollution.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. In South Africa, the IFC helped one KFC supplier bolster its operations across the region. The EBRD sold its stake in the company in 2019.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

million people die as a result of air pollution every year, but governments are still spending more supporting fossil fuel projects than they are tackling dirty air. Projects tackling air pollution receive less than one per cent of global aid spending, a new report from Clean Air Fund has revealed.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Husk Power Systems, operator of solar-hybrid microgrids across rural Asia and Africa , will electrify 80 communities in India with $6 million in new debt financing from the EU-funded Electrification Financing Initiative (EDFI ElectriFI). Husk is also present in Nigeria, with plans to further expand in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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The City Fix

APRIL 4, 2024

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

alive without the electric utilities sector moving more quickly away from polluting fossil fuels to renewable energy. However only 26 companies have plans to phase out coal – which significantly hampers international efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 Vicky Sins, Decarbonisation and Energy Transformation Lead, said: “We cannot keep 1.5

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

At the same time, there is a growing need to develop and deploy a broader suite of solutions aimed at reducing pollution. This has moved these issues up the political priority list and bolstered a massive effort to diversify India’s economy away from coal and other polluting technologies and practices.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The study reveals that the regions contributing the most to global N2O emissions are East Asia, South Asia, Africa and South America, with emissions from synthetic fertilisers dominating releases in China, India and the US and emissions from the application of livestock manure dominating in Africa and South Africa.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Worse still, it has now emerged from new undercover reporting that Saudi Arabia is operating a so-called ‘Oil Sustainability Programme’ (OSP) designed to artificially increase demand for oil across Africa and Asia. Now the air pollution from burning fossil fuels alone is estimated to kill more than tobacco smoke.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

Like other intensive farming sectors, aquaculture has been dogged by controversy, and accused of varied ecological and social harms including animal welfare concerns, pollution and highly complex, extractive supply chains, which source the feed that farmed fish rely on. But there’s a hitch with this ‘sustainable protein’ spin.

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The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Insects fared better in the Amazonian region, Africa, Western Australia, and Eastern and Central Europe, while achieving less protected area coverage in North America and South and Southeast Asia. That’s in addition to habitat destruction, deforestation, urbanization, pollution, and other activities attributed to human action.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

These family-owned and often impoverished producers each manage only a few hectares of land, but they provide a third of the world’s food and up to 80 percent of food in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Put simply, they are the bulwark against global hunger, yet they have received just 0.3 percent of climate finance.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

The carbon neutrality goal was achieved by slashing emissions - with scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions reduced by over 50 per cent since 2010 - combined with carbon offset purchases, from four non-profit projects across the US, Africa, Asia and South America, the firm said. "We

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Today, some 380 billion cubic meters (m3 = 1000 litres) of wastewater are produced annually worldwide – five times the amount of water passing over Niagara Falls annually – enough to fill Africa’s Lake Victoria in roughly seven years, Lake Ontario in four, and Lake Geneva in less than three months.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 21, 2020

To mitigate the resulting plastic pollution , the Chinese government is set to enact a plastic ban, phasing out the production and use of several single-use plastic items by 2025, thanks to a detailed policy directive and timeline from the country’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). and North America at 0.9%.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Africa recorded significant wildlife and biodiversity loss at 66%; Asia-Pacific noted a 55% loss. Such a huge loss of wildlife is due to to land and sea use, extraction of fossil resources, pollution and the presence of invasive animal species.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 31, 2021

Recently unveiled by SeaCleaners, the Manta hybrid catamaran is designed to combat the oceans’ plastic pollution in a brand new way. According to the designers, led by the company’s founder Yvan Bourgnon, the first mission of the Manta will take place in Southeast Asia.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 30, 2020

Africa received the majority of these used vehicles. The lack of effective standards and regulation is resulting in the dumping of old, polluting and unsafe vehicles. In addition to the 40% of used vehicles bound for Africa, 24% went to Eastern Europe, 15% to Asia-Pacific, 12% to the Middle East and 9% to Latin America.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The statement also calls for governments to step up efforts to tackle methane pollution, enhance climate adaptation and resilience, and scale up climate finance for developing countries. The COP27 Coalition is a space for Africans to take back control of our collective future. "The

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Announced yesterday, the Global Power System Transformation Consortium (G-PST) comprises national electricity system operators from right across the world, including the UK, Australia, California, Texas, Denmark, and 25 other states and nations spanning Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

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Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

People across Washington suffering worst from pollution — often low-income people, communities of color and linguistically isolated people — pay with their well-being and shortened lives. American Rivers | Asian Pacific Americans for Civic Engagement (APACE) | Asia Pacific Cultural Center.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In Part I of my interview with James Rockall, the CEO of the World LPG Association , we discussed the major global problems associated with indoor air pollution caused predominantly by cooking. What are the logistics of moving LPG into a developing country in central Africa, for example? In Asia, it was just over 6%.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Another 104 cases were recorded across Asia and the Pacific, mostly in Thailand, Cambodia, and the Philippines. Although a global hotspot for SLAPPs, Southeast Asia is also a pioneer for anti-SLAPP legislation. Honduras, Peru, Mexico, and Guatemala were the most affected countries.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The effects will be felt most acutely in sub-Saharan Africa, South and East Asia and the Middle East, with a disproportionate impact on areas that are already fragile and on the people who live in them.". "This can amplify displacement and migration - increasing food and water insecurity - and damage ecosystems.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. Just seven percent are based in Africa. Livestock experts with a focus on the Global South have repeatedly stressed the importance of including a range of perspectives in discussions of livestock pollution.

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