DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

On the southern coast of Africa, local community groups and environmental activists have been celebrating a significant legal victory over a major oil player. In 2009 the company paid out $15.5 Then, in 2021, the license was acquired by Shell in partnership with Impact Africa. By Joe Walsh, Earth Island Journal.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

Shell bailed in 2009, selling its stake to Saint-Gobain. Tenesol had two sites, with capacities of 50 MW (in South Africa) and 17 MW in France; it was acquired by SunPower in early 2012 — a few months after Total took its 60 percent stake in Sunpower. Avancis developed a copper-indium-selenide solar panel.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

When Raju joined the renewable energy sector in 2009, the amount of solar installed on the grid in India was roughly 3 megawatts. Communities in India share traits with communities across Southeast Asia and Africa, which means that solutions developed in one market could benefit another. Today, it’s around 36,000 megawatts.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 16, 2021

One of the major talking points at Cop26 will be the failure by developed countries to live up to their 2009 promise of providing $100 billion per year in funding to poor countries by 2020. “Developed countries are currently not pulling their weight or keeping their promises on their obligations to provide climate finance. .

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

He added that wealthy countries had a "moral responsibility to support a target of at least $60bn of international finance for nature annually in Asia, Africa, Latin America, as a part of a necessary comprehensive resource mobilisation strategy".

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 10, 2019

Engie’s acquisition of Mobisol this month and a $50 million investment in BBOXX in August have highlighted the massive potential of Africa’s off-grid power market. But rural electrification is also a significant opportunity in Latin America. For these families, solar is an important source of energy, she said.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2022

We can see the need in countries such as South Africa, where you have clear governmental commitments and public funding on the table but a need for further transition finance that could be met by pension funds investment in such economies.".

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Edelman, the world’s largest independent public relations agency, had five fossil fuel contracts, including with French major TotalEnergies, which is building a controversial oil pipeline in east Africa.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 11, 2022

At COP26 an $8.5bn agreement just transition deal was brokered between South Africa and a host of industrialised economy governments. Richer nations have collectively failed to meet their promise - chalked up in 2009 - to mobilise $100bn a year in support of poorer countries.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

Cole’s journey was tragically cut short in 2009 before he could see the full impact of his life’s work unfold. 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. A Tragic Accident.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Climate funding has been committed … The Paris Agreement committed wealthier nations to provide US$100bn in climate finance funding every year until 2025, extending commitments from 2009. These commitments were an integral part of a worldwide effort to keep global temperature increases to below 1.5C It's not too late for optimism.

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Mr. Sustainability

AUGUST 20, 2020

About Oxy Low Carbon Ventures: Oxy Low Carbon Ventures, LLC (OLCV) is a subsidiary of Occidental, an international energy company with operations in the United States, Middle East, Africa and Latin America. Visit oxylowcarbon.com for more information.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2021

However, Mohamed Adow, director of Nairobi-based think tank Power Shift Africa and a veteran observer of UN climate talks, slammed the announcement as "utterly shameful".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 13, 2021

Mohamed Adow of Power Shift Africa similarly condemned the proposed text, arguing that "vulnerable countries can't afford to leave with this current version of the text on loss and damage".

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Grist

DECEMBER 16, 2019

Flegal and Odigie studied ash samples from Santa Barbara’s 2009 Jesusita Fire, which burned nearly 9,000 acres, and they confirmed in their 2011 study that small amounts of lead sequestered in vegetation had been remobilized into the environment.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

For her work at Sunrun, Jurich was named on Fortune Magazine’s list of top 10 Most Powerful Women Entrepreneurs in December 2009, and, with her co-founder Edward Fenster, Jurich earned a 2010 Ernst & Yung Entrepreneurs of the year. Currently, Jurich serves on the Sierra Club Foundation Board of Directors.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

But from 2009 to 2013 droughts occurred in Yunnan every winter, bringing water shortages and turning farmland barren for millions of residents. Coffee has been grown in Yunnan for more than a century, but the scale was small until Nestle began to buy beans from the province in the 1980s.

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

Many of Masdar's biggest projects have been in solar across the Middle East and Africa region, but it is now looking to significantly expand its offshore wind efforts going forward, led via its recently-opened office in the UK. "We

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Climate Tech VC

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The summit also sought to highlight Africa as a destination for climate investments, rather than viewing the continent as predominantly a victim of droughts, famines, and floods. More domestic refining and processing of the raw materials for batteries and other critical mineral deposits located in Africa.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

APAC, starting with China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand as the first region; India, the Russian sub-continent as the second region; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as the third region, and then North and South America as the fourth region. and chair of World Energy Storage Day. from Walchand College of Engineering, India.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

Steingraber has been in touch and worked with people in Ireland, Argentina, Mexico, South Africa, and Scotland, among other places. But after 2009, after which the fracking boom really took off, the Pennsylvania sample saw a sharp increase in heart attacks and heart failure. “It It was a really clear trend.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2020

utility-scale PV plunging over the last decade, from $355 per megawatt-hour in 2009 to $51 per megawatt-hour last year. CSP is also part of the energy mix in South Africa and, increasingly, Middle Eastern and North African markets such as Dubai and Morocco. But the biggest challenge facing CSP, not just in the U.S.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

mid-west, parts of China, India and South-East Asia, Africa and South America will experience such severe temperatures that existing crops will in the very least be significantly impacted and yield reduced. Several vital food growing regions in the world, including the U.S. And yeah sure, I am not a climate scientist.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Gordon Brown and David Cameron attended the 2009 and 2015 summits, but otherwise it's left to ministers and officials. Some regions are more affected than others - for example in West Africa, wheat yields could fall by up to 25 per cent if temperatures rise 1.5C. Is all that about to change? per cent, maize by 7.4

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Better Ventures

SEPTEMBER 20, 2019

I was working at Good Capital, a pioneer impact investing firm that I joined out of business school, and I met Rick at one of our monthly networking events we were hosting back in 2009 (Rick likes to say he met both of his significant others?—?his his wife and me?—?at

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

A sign on a farm trailer reading “Food grows where water flows,” hangs over dry, cracked mud on a farm near Buttonwillow, California in 2009. To the south, the Horn of Africa has been ravaged by a series of droughts over the last decade, causing successive crop failures and threatening millions with severe hunger and starvation.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

The landmark $8bn-plus agreement with South Africa to support a just transition away from coal power also provides an exciting template for how emerging economies can be provided with support as they attempt to move onto cleaner development pathways. "I The pursuit of net zero finance could reshape markets.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 26, 2021

Wealthy countries promised in 2009 to contribute $100 billion a year by 2020 to help developing nations, a goal that has not been reached. Other developing nations such as Indonesia, Malaysia, South Africa and Mexico are important. The U.S. ,

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 23, 2023

The Conservative Party Foundation Limited was founded in 2009 with the purpose of raising and managing “legacy funds to support the long term finance of the Conservative Party”. Lord Spencer holds shares worth more than £50,000 in fossil fuel companies Cluff Energy Africa, Deltic Energy, the National Grid, Pantheon Resources, and Petrofac.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

In 2009 richer nations collectively promised to mobilise $100bn a year in climate finance for developing nations, but have consistently failed to meet this goal.

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Grist

MARCH 29, 2022

People have gotten so excited about taking on climate change by planting trees everywhere — with plans underway to grow a forest across the whole width of Africa , cover a third of India in forests, and plant 1 trillion trees around the world by 2030 — that the world is approaching a seed shortage.

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Green Market Oracle

MAY 2, 2020

That is five times the rate of decline we saw in the great recession of 2009. In South Africa lions can be seen sleeping on roads once frequented by safari-goers. In China , Europe and the US carbon emissions are expected to decline by at least 5 percent this year. Hundreds if not thousands of oil companies are going bankrupt.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

In the short term, blue hydrogen can play a role in regions that are most economically dependent on fossil gas, he acknowledged, but in regions such as Africa, there is significant potential to move straight towards reaping the benefits of green hydrogen. "So So we think in the end hydrogen will be mainly green," La Camera told journalists.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 31, 2023

Much later, the unit would be embroiled in the manufactured “ ClimateGate ” scandal, after an unknown hacker published a cache of emails from its scientists in November, 2009. Shell explained at the time that it wanted to prepare itself to deal as “effectively as possible” with seasonal fluctuations in demand for oil.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

In a 1982 memo, Fisher also outlined plans for think tanks in Argentina, India, South Africa, and Sri Lanka, noting in each place a local businessman or politician that wanted to start an institute. As for oil majors undertaking massive new projects in Africa? He went on to co-found all of them, and all are still operating today.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Twitter and Square CEO Jack Dorsey and rapper Jay Z have created an endowment to fund bitcoin growth initially in Africa and India, Dorsey mentioned on Friday. The first wallet program, simply named Bitcoin, and generally known as the Satoshi shopper, was launched in 2009 by Satoshi Nakamoto as open-source software. In version zero.5

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2020

Since September alone, China has pledged to reach carbon neutrality by 2060, and Japan, South Korea, South Africa, and Canada have also set their sights on net zero by 2050. China's 2060 pledge appeared to trigger a tipping point that saw Japan, South Korea, South Africa, and others follow in the space of just weeks, he explains.

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