AGreenLiving

AUGUST 14, 2020

When National Geographic filmmaker Shannon Wild moved to Africa in 2013 to make wildlife documentaries, she found herself in the hospital after a near-death experience in Masai Mara. Wild in Africa Images via Wild in Africa. Read the original post: Wild in Africa jewelry supports wildlife conservation charities.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Investments in off-grid power in Africa and Asia have skyrocketed in the last five years. Thirty times more money went into the sector in 2018 compared with 2013. Ben has spent years immersed in the world of solar home systems and off grid renewables in the Middle East and Africa.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

European energy giant inks three year partnership with leading distributed solar charity to help boost clean energy access across Africa. The company's donations will be used to increase access to solar light and power across Africa, with a particular focus on critical rural health clinics. Together we can end the darkness.".

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The minigrid funding commitment from international donor organizations is “in the billions,” says Daniel Kitwa, energy access finance advisor at the Africa Minigrid Developers Association (AMDA). billion allocated to sub-Saharan Africa. This requires skills that would command a premium anywhere, and even more so in Africa.

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Business Green

AUGUST 28, 2020

Direct loan from UK Export Finance aimed at supporting Aqua Africa project that will provide clean drinking water to rural communities in Ghana. That is why we welcome wholeheartedly the investment in the Aqua Africa Project.". The project is now set to begin next month with community engagement exercises and a ground delivery plan.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Scatec believes that targeting the sub 25-megawatt segment with a lease model in emerging markets will allow it to steal market share from diesel, which is used for more than 250 gigawatts of power generation in Africa alone. In Africa, for example, the default rate is only about 3.5 Re-deployable systems.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

That may sound fanciful — and, for some, less than appetizing — but insect consumption is hardly a novel concept, according to a 2013 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2022

One of the toughest and most stressful decisions of my life was in 2013 when the then CEO of Husk walked away literally overnight. Manoj has played an instrumental role in the technological and economic advancement of mini-grids as a rural energy solution in Asia and Africa. WHAT’S THE BIGGEST RISK YOU’VE EVER TAKEN?

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Smart Energy International

JUNE 8, 2022

Keith Buddon, head of business development at Cenex – an independent non-profit research and consultancy – responded to this quandary during the Smart Mobility Africa Fleet Summit , taking place during Enlit Africa 2022.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Honeywell invests in Sparkmeter SparkMeter, a provider of grid management services, equipment and software solutions across Africa, Asia and the Americas, has secured a strategic $5 million investment and global partnership with Honeywell Smart Energy, a utility digital solution provider.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

The carbon neutrality goal was achieved by slashing emissions - with scope 1 and 2 greenhouse gas emissions reduced by over 50 per cent since 2010 - combined with carbon offset purchases, from four non-profit projects across the US, Africa, Asia and South America, the firm said. "We

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

UKEF confirmed it now had representatives in Africa, South America, the Middle East, and Asia helping it identify projects with long-term and sustainable growth potential, adding it planned to "significantly increase" this network in 2021.

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

The report today - the IPCC's first of its kind since 2013 - may not make for joyful reading on the state of the only habitable home humans have, but coming just weeks before the crucial COP26 Climate Summit its core conclusions could not be more essential to every business on the planet. And today the IPCC concluded the 1.5C

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Grist

MARCH 16, 2024

Caribou walk in the foreground of a glacier on July 12, 2013 in Kangerlussuaq, Greenland. It happened again in the winters of 2013-2014 and in 2020-2021, when tens of thousands of reindeer died on Siberia’s Yamal Peninsula. Read Next Can the ‘sand motor’ save West Africa’s eroding coast?

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 29, 2021

Between 2006 and 2013, China’s global share of production of PV cells, the solar industry’s core technology, surged from 14 percent to 66 percent. Prior to founding and leading Ignite, Yariv was President of Camco Clean Energy , a global renewable energy developer with a focus on Africa.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

Silver Spring took on just over $373 million in backing, went public in 2013 , and rose to hold a significant share of the North American utility smart meter networking market, before it was bought by rival Itron in 2017 for $830 million.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

A BBC Newsnight investigation in January found the agency had financed £6bn of fossil fuel projects around the world since 2010, and separate statistics published by Parliament's Environmental Audit Committee show that between 2013 and 2018, 96 per cent of UKEF's support of global energy projects went to fossil fuel ventures.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

Research laboratories quickly mobilized to review historical specimens and found the fungus, called Candida auris , had been present in the country since at least 2013. In 2016, hospitals in New York identified a rare and dangerous fungal infection never before found in the United States. auris infections. In the U.S.,

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Better Ventures

FEBRUARY 25, 2016

We are thrilled with the tremendous progress the SunFunder team has made since we first backed the company in their seed round in early 2013. To date, SunFunder has enabled access to affordable, clean energy for over 550,000 people in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2021

The many scientific advances since the last comprehensive IPCC report in 2013 mean better projections for specific regions of the world. of heating, heavy rain and flooding are projected to intensify in Europe, North America and most regions of Africa and Asia. “We It finds nowhere is safe. For example, even at 1.5C

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Business Green

AUGUST 14, 2020

That may sound fanciful - and, for some, less than appetizing - but insect consumption is hardly a novel concept, according to a 2013 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organisation report.

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Better Ventures

APRIL 8, 2013

We believe people would lend to businesses if they could, so we’ve created a crowdfunding platform to connect anyone anywhere in the world with vetted, high-impact solar projects in off-grid communities around the world, but for now with a focus on East Africa and Asia. Our sixth project is currently funding on our website.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 28, 2020

The facility started in 2013 with 13 megawatts of First Solar panels and is working its way up to a targeted 5 gigawatts by 2030. Tenders in the Middle East and North Africa region usually see the state take majority ownership of the project. In November, Abu Dhabi’s neighboring emirate Dubai claimed the title with a 1.7

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

The global offshore market has now grown on average by 24 per cent each year since 2013. Over the coming decade we will see emerging offshore markets like Japan, Korea, and Vietnam move to full deployment, and see the first offshore turbines installed in a number of new countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa.".

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

M.P.H. – Co-Founder and executive director of WE CARE Solar Dr. Laura Stachel’s story of how she went from unknown OB/GYN to one of CNN’s Top 10 Heros of 2013 , starts in Northern Nigeria in 2008. Stachel , M.D., Stachel is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist with fourteen years of clinical experience, holding an M.D.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

The first case of chikungunya in the Western Hemisphere was discovered in 2013 in the Caribbean. Historical range: Chikungunya fever was first identified in Tanzania in the 1950s, remained relatively rare for half a century, and then exploded into more than 60 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas after 2004.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 10, 2020

That may sound fanciful — and, for some, less than appetizing — but insect consumption is hardly a novel concept, according to a 2013 United Nations Food and Agriculture Organization report.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 19, 2019

2013: Kuli Kuli raises $53,000 in most popular food crowdfunding campaign in Indiegogo’s history. Snapshot: Kuli Kuli’s history. 2011: Lisa Curtis returns from Peace Corps Niger and recruits her childhood friend Jordan Moncharmont out of Stanford, Facebook and Telsa to test out moringa products.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 19, 2021

The company hopes that providing 100 percent of households with solar will give the project the scale it needs to cover its operating expenses, establishing a sustainable business model to roll-out clean energy across all of super-rural Africa. Long-term supporters of the charity, the Trust funded a similar pilot in 2013.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

The latest protein supply figures from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for 2013 recorded average protein consumption of 69.1g per capita per day in Africa, 77.57g in Asia, 86.09g in South America, and 102.06g in Europe.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

MARCH 20, 2024

A paper by Jesse Nyokabi , Johnson Kilangi, Louise Mathu, Sharon Mwakugu, and Kombuso Joshua Nyoni looks into the mechanism of Private-Public Partnerships (PPPs) and how these can be used to mobilize project financing for geothermal projects in Africa. Other countries in East Africa are still in the surface exploration phase of development.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

The previous goal on the other hand - to reduce the carbon emissions of every bottle of drink by 25 per cent by 2020 compared to a 2013 baseline - was relative to the amount of drinks being churned out by the company. Do I feel pressure? I feel very positive pressure. But it works both ways.

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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

The firm was also part of the four-strong consortium behind the 630MW London Array offshore wind farm, which was the world's largest when it was completed in 2013.

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Renewable Energy World

APRIL 30, 2021

Other notable climbers are NextEra Energy, whose subsidiary Florida Power and Light has commissioned several large projects in its home state; and France’s Engie with new plants in Europe, the Americas and Africa. The new plant is some 15km west of the Longyangxia project, also developed by SPIC.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

That led, in turn, to a major drawback from big VC firms, with early-stage funding for climate tech companies falling to about $418 million in 2013. Clean Energy Ventures’ investment in Spark Meter last year takes on a similar challenge in emerging economies in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, Goldman said. The Washington D.C.-based

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2021

For example, on public finance WRI's Joe Thwaites points out Biden's commitment to doubling its public climate finance by 2024 compared to a 2013-2016 baseline is not particularly ambitious. Indonesia and South Africa both said they could go faster in their shift towards clean energy if they received financial support.

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