Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Direct targeting of oil and gas companies, consistently high since 2011, drove a surge in campaigns from 2019 onwards calling for investors to divest initially from coal, followed by ‘dirty' oil and gas like oil sands, then finally all fossil fuels. Charlotte Moore is head of research at the NGO Sigwatch.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 29, 2021

Since 2011, annual global energy transition investment (renewable energy, CCS, electrified transport, hydrogen, electrified heat, energy storage) has almost doubled, from $290b to $501b. China is the leader in emerging market green bond growth, while east Asia and the Pacific region is responsible for 81% of the market.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

International Bio Fuels Marketing (IBFM) has entered into contracts with French energy giant Engie to build four wood pellet plants in Asia with construction starting this year. Wood pellets, pictured below, are used for co-firing with coal at power plants, helping utilities and major end-users meet their carbon targets.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 31, 2019

With investor interest sizzling and demand for these burgers surging nationally after Impossible’s deal with Burger King to provide Impossible Whoppers and its $300 million Series E funding round earlier this year, the race has been on to scale up production to keep up expectations and appetites. . Sizzling Demand. restaurants.

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Mr. Sustainability

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

The demand for lithium-ion batteries is therefore going to 'explode', says Carlsson. The producers of this type of equipment are mainly based in Asia. After years at, among others, Ericsson and NXP, he moved to Palo Alto in 2011 to start working at Tesla. Bloomberg estimates that 80% of global battery production comes from Asia.

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Energy Innovation

MARCH 17, 2020

As the number of global internet users has grown, so too has demand for data center services, giving rise to concerns about growing data center energy use. And new forms of information services such as artificial intelligence (AI), which are particularly computationally-intensive, may accelerate demand growth further. households (U.S.

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Low Impact

JUNE 30, 2021

Malaria was another huge challenge – then still rife in Asia, Africa and Southern Europe. In WWI, demand had been even greater, as they were used in the manufacture of the anaesthetic chloroform and the explosive, cordite. In 1915 nearly 20% of the troops at Gallipoli were evacuated due to sickness (mainly malaria).

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Charged

FEBRUARY 6, 2024

Umicore started developing battery materials in Asia in the mid-1990s. Based on our precious metals recycling, we pioneered industrial-scale battery recycling in 2011 in Belgium. Today it’s one of Belgium’s largest companies, and has a strong presence in e-mobility, including the manufacturing and recycling of EV battery materials.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2021

Part of the reason behind China’s coal expansion is it’s growing demand for power. While China may be rapidly building out renewable energy for power generation , and has made commitments for emissions reductions in the future, the country’s power demand is outpacing its rate of renewable power expansion. China’s Coal Expansion.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 19, 2020

When demand for renewables is low, during the spring and fall, excess electricity can be used to power the electrolysis needed to split hydrogen and oxygen molecules. Across Europe, the Middle East and Asia, more countries and companies are embracing this high-quality fuel. Then the hydrogen can be stored or sent down a pipeline.

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Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

This was certainly true in 2011, when a bitter cold snap impacted four million people and caused losses of 1.5 The price is determined by supply, demand and speculation. Climate change has affected Yunnan’s socio-economic development and people’s living environment.” billion yuan (US$225 million).

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Despite successful counterexamples like Tesla, Nest, Enphase and Silver Spring Networks, those failures, combined with the Great Recession starting in 2008, led to the loss of roughly half of the $25 billion in venture capital invested in the sector from 2006 to 2011, according to Pricewaterhouse Coopers. The Washington D.C.-based

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

These areas are concentrated in the western Amazon basin, central Africa and southeast Asia - all locations prioritised for high-impact REDD+ and the sites of a number of the REDD+ projects Everland represents. However right now, some of these initiatives may be creating new ones.

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Clean Energy Trust

JULY 29, 2019

To date, research in hybrid-electric aviation and electric aviation has, for the most part, been limited to small-scale projects, such as single-passenger quadcopter drones and on-demand flying taxis. The reality is that today, the technology simply isn’t ready. The geographical distribution of flights is changing as well. contrail warming.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The complaint, obtained by DeSmog via a public records request, accused the company of fraud, breach of contract, gross negligence, and willful misconduct, and demanded at least $457 million in damages. Analyses of the water produced with the gas commonly show elevated levels of salinity and radium,” a 2011 U.S.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Gox in 2011. The historical past of hacks, fraud and theft involving bitcoin dates back to a minimum of 2011. This episode of “Bitcoin In Asia” hosted Nigerian author Ahyke Otutubuike to debate the state of cryptocurrency in his home country. Unsurprisingly, Bitcoin’s worth has grown with increased demand.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

As the coronavirus struck the global economy earlier this year, demand for oil dropped by more than a fifth and prices collapsed. Many sources now suggest that oil demand has already passed its peak. He even openly questioned whether oil demand will ever return to pre-pandemic levels. The industry as we once knew it, is gone.

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Low Impact

MAY 31, 2020

I wrote about this in the Asia Times at the time. There’s a forward market, but no physical market, because 30 million barrels per day of demand has disappeared. Then in Teheran in 2011, when the price was over $100, I said that once quantitative easing (QE) stopped, then the price would collapse to $45-50. I don’t think so.

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