Grist

MAY 18, 2023

He did note, however, that tropical countries where the effects of El Niño are most intense — Peru, Ecuador, Indonesia, Bangladesh, and the Philippines — see radical declines in economic growth following an El Niño “comparable in size to financial crises or other disasters.” trillion and $5.7 trillion in 2017 dollars, respectively.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

And yet remarkably few regions, even in wealthy countries, have useful, up-to-date flood maps because of the cost and difficulty of creating them.”. Layers of Landsat information for a selected region and specified timeframe identifies temporary and permanent water bodies while integrating site-specific elevation and land-use data.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 17, 2022

The grid modernisation project is also expected to help improve regional energy trading between India and neighboring countries since West Bengal is strategically located along the corridor to the Northeast and to Southeast Asia. Today, the state’s grid is enabling energy trading between India and Bangladesh.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

The national carbon market was set to launch before the end of 2020 following several regional trials, but the move was delayed as a result of the coronavirus pandemic. Bangladesh axes new coal power projects.

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Grist

DECEMBER 11, 2023

In the summer of 2022, one of the worst monsoons on record turned swaths of Bangladesh, a low-lying country in South Asia, into huge, muddy lakes. When the brunt of the flooding finally eased, at least 141 people had died and millions of others throughout the region had been injured, impoverished, or displaced.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2021

The Prince of Wales has today launched a new initiative geared at fast tracking finance for improving water services in water-stressed regions in Africa and South East Asia. Water Aid-led Resilient Water Accelerator launched as UN-backed Race to Zero campaign urges water utilities around the world to commit to net zero emissions.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

Water access remains at its worst in Sub-Saharan Africa where only 54 per cent of people have access to safe drinking water, falling to just 25 per cent in some regions. And while safely managed sanitation services reached 62 per cent of the world's urban population, the figure is only 44 per cent for rural communities.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 27, 2021

People from Latin America, the Philippines, parts of Africa, Pakistan, and Bangladesh have told the Coalition they are facing obstacles. Our region has been historically underrepresented in the climate talks.”. Economic barriers and restrictions are increasing without consideration of our right to participate.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Moreover, developing economies where larger numbers of people work outdoors are set to be hit the hardest, with workers plying their trade in tropical and subtropical regions - particularly in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Western Pacific - expected to bear the worst impacts, the study predicts.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

The region experienced at least four other serious floods in the years between. That’s what we think is happening in some of the places that we’ve mapped,” she said, naming Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Guwahati, India as two examples. These weren’t isolated events. Sukhomoy Sen/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 6, 2020

” The study also discusses how global warming-related health risks will most affect poor communities in hotter regions of the world. Countries in the tropics, such as Ghana, Bangladesh , Sudan and Pakistan, already face an additional 200 deaths per 100,000 people.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 3, 2023

We received 38 research proposals across the Asia-Pacific and Japan region, each with a unique perspective and different sets of challenges from various industries, but all of them recognized how vital satellite technology is to their respective fields. In fact, “Bangladesh relies heavily on agriculture for food production.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

The region experienced at least four other serious floods in the years between. That’s what we think is happening in some of the places that we’ve mapped,” she said, naming Dhaka, Bangladesh, and Guwahati, India as two examples. These weren’t isolated events. Sukhomoy Sen/NurPhoto via Getty Images.

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 22, 2023

In Bangladesh, women walk up to five hours a day to fetch and transport water. They’ve got their A-game on creating a sense of security and preparedness, hence reducing anxiety levels compared to regions with limited resources. Sadly, this reinforces gender inequality and hinders girls’ education.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 3, 2020

The study has identified some regions that are likely to be affected the most by the continuous rise in sea levels. Among the areas of highest concern include southeastern China, northern Australia and Bangladesh as well as Gujarat and West Bengal in India. In the U.S.,

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Rockall: You’ve got countries like Indonesia, India, Bangladesh, where there have been major programs that we’ve supported with the governments of those countries to switch people to LPG. Then if you drill down further into those regions, you have, for instance, Kenya which grew by 35%. Take Indonesia, for instance.

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Andrew Winston

MAY 4, 2022

But many more places, like Miami, huge parts of Bangladesh, and all low-lying island nations, will flood permanently. The downside risk to those regional economies is not 18%; it’s 100%. Some areas, like Canada or Siberia, may actually see longer growing seasons and economic gains. Some cities will become too hot to live in.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

APRIL 17, 2024

  This will occur within the South Asian Association for Regional Cooperation ( SAARC ), which is comprised of Sri Lanka, India, Afghanistan, Bhutan, Bangladesh, Nepal, Maldives, and Pakistan. billion (USD $17.87 million).

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Energy Innovation

DECEMBER 8, 2021

The analysis compared observations of the heatwave to the simulated climate of the region without elevated levels of greenhouse gases (GHGs). 2017 Bangladesh Floods. Some regions of the world have better monitoring coverage than others. For example, an attribution study by Phillip et al. Event (link to study). 1 in 33 years.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 26, 2021

Bangladesh shelves plans for over 7GW of new coal capacity. The Bangladesh government has decided in principle to scrap nine proposed coal-fired power plant projects that would have delivered over 7.4GW of capacity, according to local media reports.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Given the complexity of treating dye-containing wastewater, one solution would be to shift from the concept of centralised or regional treatment methods, to decentralised and site-specific treatment at source, by compelling industries to remove dyes from the wastewater they create before it reaches public water systems.”

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

Ahead of the Summit, the UK with our partner Italy, will work not just with nations, but also cities, regions, companies, the Multilateral Development Banks, the Development Finance Institutions. And, very importantly, civil society in all its various forms. This was a personal priority for me when I was International Development Secretary.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

Report author Chris Littlecott, an associate director at E3G, said coal power was increasingly becoming economically unviable in many regions of the world, and urged governments to collectively state their intention to move from coal to clean energy ahead of the COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow in November.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2022

But the report also stresses that Russia's invasion of Ukraine remains the single biggest driver of the current global food crisis, noting that the ongoing devastation of war in the key global "breadbasket region" has pushed global food security into a "state of high risk".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

And as you will know, this has been developed by the UK and our friends in Egypt and Bangladesh and Malawi, the Netherlands, St Lucia and the UN, together with our Group of Friends on Adaptation and Resilience in New York. The event will also be open to observers from countries who are not directly participating.

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Grist

JULY 19, 2020

Russians made up for the shortfall by reducing exports, he noted, but “if you lose a third of your production in India or Bangladesh, that could be a huge disaster.”. Drought has plagued the Southwest in recent years and some researchers say it may be a permanent fixture in the region. It has taken a heavy toll on ranching.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

Joining H&M in 1997 in the buying department, Helmersson wound her way through the company, moving from Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Hong Kong to Stockholm. She’s also the first woman, succeeding longtime CEO Karl-Johan Persson one year ago. Nestlé last year released Nespresso pods with 80 percent recycled aluminum.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Adaptation spending is still insufficient to close the gap with resiliency needs, particularly in the most vulnerable regions of the world, but the report is a stepping stone in pointing out solutions policy makers can take to address it.". They broke it, now they have to fix it.".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 11, 2022

The story of how that lower limit became enshrined belongs to a large number of small island countries and vulnerable regions. However, the emergence of the 1.5°C C limit is more recent and intense. And so they fought. And they won. degree Celsius and 350 parts per million of atmospheric greenhouse gas concentrations.”.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

In recent weeks both the Japanese and South Korean governments have announced new net zero targets, while Vietnam and Bangladesh are reportedly considering emulating the Philippines in calling time on new coal projects. Analysts warn Asian net zero pledges could dent Australian fossil fuel exports.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 6, 2020

This placemat helps continue the tradition of hand-weaving that has existed in this region for decades and provides work for those who harvest, dry and weave the plant fibers together. Weavers in organized weaving centers in Bangladesh create these beautiful rugs to grace the floors of homes around the world.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Steiner, Richard Weller, Karen M’Closkey, Billy Fleming, 2019 Named a best book of 2019 by the American Society of Landscape Architect’s The Dirt, Design with Nature Now celebrates the 50th anniversary of Ian McHarg’s seminal book Design with Nature, which set forth a new vision for regional planning using natural systems.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 1, 2023

All eyes were on the Asia-Pacific region as Planet gathered the Earth observation community from key global industries with leading experts, research innovators, and industry disruptors from all parts of the world in Planet On The Road 2023. We take this insight to heart and embrace each opportunity from our regional partners and customers.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2022

The heatwave is also causing power and water shortages across India, Bangladesh and Pakistan. The record-breaking temperatures in the Northwest last summer exacted a serious economic toll , with businesses across the region - many still recovering from coronavirus shutdowns - closing their doors, often to keep employees safe.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

Joining H&M in 1997 in the buying department, Helmersson wound her way through the company, moving from Dhaka, Bangladesh, to Hong Kong to Stockholm. She’s also the first woman, succeeding longtime CEO Karl-Johan Persson one year ago. Nestlé last year released Nespresso pods with 80 percent recycled aluminum.

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Grist

APRIL 29, 2020

It was late one night in January 2009, and Jonathan Epstein was standing on the roof of an abandoned storage depot near Khulna, Bangladesh, with the writer and journalist David Quammen along with a small team of veterinarians. The group was in Bangladesh on a strange errand: They were catching bats.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2022

At last year's COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow the Scottish government became the first regional government to offer loss and damage funding with a £1m pledge. Denmark's development minister Flemming Møller Mortensen said: "I saw for myself in Bangladesh this spring that the consequences of climate change need increased focus.

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