DeSmogBlog
APRIL 19, 2024
In all, the investigation identified five factory-scale poultry companies in as many countries that have received financial support from the International Finance Corporation (IFC, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank Group), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), or both since 2003, and that supply chicken to KFC.
GreenTechMedia
DECEMBER 4, 2020
As far back as 2003, an organization called Trans-Mediterranean Renewable Energy Cooperation hatched a plan to produce renewable energy in the Sahara for export to European markets. In essence, Xlinks’ goal is the same as Nur Energie’s: to harness North Africa’s massive renewable energy promise for the U.K.
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Grist
JULY 20, 2023
Researchers have documented the insects making their homes in higher places that are typically too cool for them, from the tropical highlands of South America to the mountainous but populous regions of eastern Africa. A recent Georgetown University study found them moving upward in sub-Saharan Africa at the rate of 21 feet per year.
DeSmogBlog
NOVEMBER 23, 2022
In addition, it has forced women to negotiate access to basic services, housing, and employment; to assume the role of sole parent; and organize to care for and protect our communities. This move has increased gender-based and sexual violence and displacement. Fossil fuels mean shattered hopes for African women and the whole continent.
DeSmogBlog
APRIL 7, 2021
This philosophy led Cole to structure CRPE so that community organizers were in the lead and lawyers would be accountable to the organizers. In 1987, while in law school at Harvard, Cole traveled to South Africa on a Harvard Human Rights Fellowship and volunteered for the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits University.
Grist
MARCH 29, 2020
In developing countries, logging, mining, agriculture, and other forms of intensive resource extraction on previously wild lands increasingly thrust wildlife and people into contact, while shifting cultural norms change the ways that wild animals are consumed — the growth of urban bushmeat markets in Africa , for example. on Mar 29, 2020.
GreenBiz
MARCH 8, 2021
When it comes to those shaping the corporate climate movement — either from within companies or as part of NGOs and policy organizations that recognize the critical role businesses must play in addressing the climate emergency — I’m grateful to say it’s becoming easier to find women with a seat at the decision-making table.
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