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VOCs landmark: Firm marks 20 years of mobile carbon filter rentals

Envirotec Magazine

CPL had been selling carbon filters prior to this date, but 2003 was when they designed a genuinely portable unit and began the transition into a true ‘carbon & service’ business. The first rental filter was a 2m 3 VOCSorber® unit, supplied to a chemicals manufacturing site in West Yorkshire that is still a customer to this day!

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Extreme heat is ramping up all over the world. So are solutions.

Grist

” Christopher Hewitt , director of climate services at the World Meteorological Organization The spotlight No matter where you live in the world, you’ve likely noticed that this summer has been abnormally hot. In 2003, a devastating European heat wave killed at least 15,000 seniors in France. Read more here.

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An Open Letter: The Texas Energy Transition—The Greentown Labs Community Offers Pathways to a Resilient and Sustainable Energy Future

Greentown Labs

Warning signs were dismissed, as they have been elsewhere: consider the Northeast’s heat-triggered cascading grid outages in 2003, grid failures resulting from hurricanes Katrina (2005), Sandy (2012), and Maria (2017), California’s rolling summer blackouts, and countless related incidents.

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Xlinks Revives Desertec’s Dream, With a Few Twists

GreenTechMedia

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. What’s changed in the past decade: Falling renewables costs and rising demand. The company admits the idea is nothing new.

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Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

DeSmogBlog

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. A sixth company has benefited from IFC advisory services but has not received financing. But some projects backed by development banks have drawn serious complaints from their neighbors.

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Mosquitos are moving to higher elevations — and so is malaria

Grist

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. Read more here. But the world faces new threats: U.S.

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COVID-19 and climate change: A healthy dose of reality

Business Green

The Pentagon, for example, started raising concern back in 2003 in an independent study commissioned by the U.S. firms reporting supply-chain disruptions due to virus-related travel and transportation restrictions, and more than eight in 10 believe that their organization will experience some impact because of COVID-19 disruptions.