Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 28, 2024

Across the Global South for instance, many cities and regions (especially secondary and tertiary cities) are growing much more rapidly than their citizens can be counted – leading to settlements that are, in reality, much larger than their “official” population counts. Planet SkySat image of devastating floods in Nowshera, Pakistan.

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Business Green

JANUARY 10, 2023

As well as lingering La Niña conditions, Munich Re warned that many of the world's worst weather catastrophes - from Hurricane Ian in North America to floods that left a third of Pakistan under water last year - are entirely in line with the expected consequences of a warming planet.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Ahead of the World Bank's annual meeting, a think tank finds that Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Mongolia, Vietnam and Laos have issued the most in sovereign debt to date in the region.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

The disastrous droughts, heatwaves, and floods seen around the world's major crop-producing regions this summer have slashed harvest forecasts, pushed up food prices, and exacerbated hunger, prompting scientists to this week warn of a looming "multi-breadbasket failure" driven by escalating climate impacts.

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2021

By 2040 half of the world's cotton growing regions are expected to face drastic exposure to high temperatures, changes to water availability, and extreme weather events, with impacts set to escalate further unless global greenhouse gas emissions are rapidly curbed.

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R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 23, 2020

Further, these regions have managed to reduce carbon dioxide emissions while reducing nuclear power. As I pointed out in last week’s article , carbon dioxide emissions in the Asia Pacific region are more than double the combined emissions of the U.S. I believe the answer to that is “No.”. Today the U.S. and the EU.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The combination of high mountain snow peaks and glaciers along with the natural biodiversity of these regions make them an irreplaceable part of the global water cycle. South America: South Chile, South Argentina, Negro, La Puna region, North Chile. billion people.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The combination of high mountain snow peaks and glaciers along with the natural biodiversity of these regions make them an irreplaceable part of the global water cycle. South America: South Chile, South Argentina, Negro, La Puna region, North Chile. billion people.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 13, 2022

From the deadliest floods in Pakistan's history to the worst drought across the continent of Europe in five centuries, 2022 has been another devastating year for climate change events," said Maia Kutner, interim global director, cities, states, and regions at CDP.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In South Africa, the IFC helped one KFC supplier bolster its operations across the region. With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them. Since then, it has extended its geographic reach to include other regions.

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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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R-Squared Energy

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Pakistan — 14.9%. In contrast, Asia Pacific’s, which is the region responsible for most of the world’s carbon emissions, is only dependent on nuclear power for 2.4% Can Asia Pacific region continue to develop with renewables supplying the bulk of the new energy demand? Where is nuclear power growing? China — 16.7%. India — 3.1%.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 27, 2023

The financing of smart grids will vary depending on the specific circumstances of each country or region. In addition, China has funded smart grid projects in BRI participating countries, such as Pakistan and Kazakhstan.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 25, 2020

Emerging solar markets will come of age in the 2020 as countries from Saudi Arabia to Pakistan to Malaysia join the “gigawatt club.” Fast forward to 2019: 16 countries across all major regions installed more than a gigawatt of solar last year. However, new markets will bring new kinds of challenges for solar.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 8, 2022

Other power outages mentioned by IHS Markit in the report include in Pakistan and rolling blackouts in Sri Lanka. Europe’s reliance on gas sourced from Russia and of China on coal sourced from outside the country resulted in increases in power prices in the two regions in 2021 and in power outages.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 26, 2021

The Plan has the prosperity and wellbeing of regional Australia at its core. We have an opportunity to act now to harness existing regional strengths, unlock new areas of growth, and diversify economic activity in regions. We will invest in rural and regional Australia to ensure it succeeds and is protected under the Plan.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 29, 2022

There are other factors too, e.g. Pakistan typically has a daily power outage of roughly 8 hours in urban regions and about 10 hours in rural areas due to load shedding. It is impossible to accurately balance power generation with a whole region. The actual power gap now exceeds 8GW. Data acquisition.

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Grist

AUGUST 1, 2023

The 2022 outbreak showed a different pattern — cholera spread throughout the dry season and by August had moved into Malawi’s northern and central regions. By early February of this year, cases had peaked at 700 per day with a fatality rate of 3.3 percent , three times higher than the typical rate.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

July was the hottest month on record, making it difficult for people in some regions - particularly the vulnerable and the elderly - to make it through the day. In Pakistan, for instance, with our brand Dawlance, our aim for average AC energy consumption is to reduce 19 per cent in the next eight years. Why is this a concern?

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Business Green

JUNE 23, 2021

Today, the first-ever global analysis of climate risks to cotton production - published by the Cotton 2040 initiative, which is convened by Forum for the Future with support from the Laudes Foundation - shows that climate change will affect every element of supply chains in all the world's main cotton growing regions. equivalent to 4.3°C

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

The unseasonal weather will also spark fresh concerns about the impact on food production and wildlife populations, following last year's blistering temperatures which were widely blamed for poor harvests across many key agricultural regions.

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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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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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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Some projects balance vernacular materials with modern construction methods like TECLA, 3D-printed housing built from extruded raw clay in the region of Lombardy in Italy. While some projects work to retrofit existing spaces, such as the range of revamped housing across the U.K.

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Climate 4.0

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Certainly, the Scandinavians enjoy their role in exerting so-called soft leadership, even though the region's four countries have a combined population of about 20 million people. I listed Sweden because of its potential role as an arbiter and exerter of moral leadership.

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Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 16, 2017

Primarily, they are centered in parts of Africa, parts of India, Pakistan and regions in Asia – and most of them are centered in rural areas. Could you imagine living off-grid with no light when you had to read for school or work, cook or socialize? Not really, right? billion people live without access to electric energy.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Exceptionally low natural gas prices during 2020 enabled substantial coal-to-gas switching in power generation across various regions and high markets. They rose by 28% in Egypt and 43% in Pakistan.”. But this started changing towards the end of 2020 as the prices rose. LNG market supply inadequacies.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 16, 2022

The survey of of 23,507 adults in 34 countries found that more than seven in 10 respondents, or 71 per cent, said they expect climate change to have a severe effect in their regions over the next 10 years. Fully 35 per cent of respondents said they expected to be displaced from their homes due to climate change by 2047.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

Pakistan The loss due to energy theft and meter tampering in Pakistan’s power sector is estimated as high as 20% of total electricity generated in the country. Our meters are designed to work seamlessly with AMI system solutions, which means also regional hooking can be detected efficiently.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

A third of Pakistan under water. Entire economic sectors becoming unsustainable and uninsurable, entire regions becoming unlivable, and the strain on the global movement of goods, and the pressure on people to relocate because of the climate crisis, becoming almost unimaginable. The worst flooding in Nigeria in a decade.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 6, 2022

But given the repeated warnings from scientists and the sorts of terrifying weather patterns seen around the world this summer - devastating floods in Pakistan, unprecedented heatwaves in China, drought across much of Europe - the world's current pathway remains hugely concerning. As the report points out, the difference between 1.5C

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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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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 12, 2024

And in some ways, the Secretary General of the United Nations has talked about this – specifically, when he spoke about what happened in Pakistan last year, with the severe flooding where a third of the country was displaced. Now, those are unrealistic, but [a climate shock] is that level of extensive disasters hitting simultaneously.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

In August last year, one third of Pakistan was underwater, with the World Bank estimating that 216 million people could be displaced by 2050," she explains. Wingham stresses that different regions all carry bespoke "special needs", thereby creating an intricate patchwork of physical and socio-economic challenges.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 25, 2021

This issue affected East Asia and the Pacific region the most, with about 30.3% ” The countries most affected by “disaster-driven internal displacements” are Afghanistan , India and Pakistan. million people displaced, India 929,000 and Pakistan 806,000. of all the new displacements. Afghanistan recorded 1.1

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Nine nations (including Kenya, Colombia, and Pakistan) have already signed agreements with P2DNZ that allow the initiative and its partners to advise those countries as they write applications for support from the Green Climate Fund (GCF), a multilateral entity that helps Global South countries finance climate adaptations.

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