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Seeking clarity

Envirotec Magazine

Late August saw the release of “Air Quality and Health In Cities”, the latest edition of The State of Global Air report, produced annually by the US Health Effects Institute. It attempts a snapshot of air pollution exposure in over 7000 cities worldwide, and its impact on health. in Asia is brick kilns.

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Fatalities and accidents decline in offshore wind, as safety organisation reviews progress

Envirotec Magazine

For the tenth year in a row, there were no fatalities recorded across G+ member sites in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. G+ members – comprising most of the biggest offshore wind operators in the world – have reported a record 44.6 million hours were worked in 2022, an increase of 38% on the previous year. in 2021 to 2.82

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The pollution paradox: How cleaning up smog drives ocean warming

Grist

The Blob first formed in 2013 and spread across an area of the northeast Pacific the size of Canada. Emissions of the tiny particles that cause smogs, collectively known as aerosols, are in decline across most of the world — apart from South Asia and Africa. million tons in 2013 to 2.4 million tons in 2022.

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Earth is getting extra salty, an ‘existential threat’ to freshwater supplies

Grist

Salt is even getting kicked up into the air: In arid regions, “lakes are drying up and sending plumes of saline dust into the atmosphere,” such as the Aral Sea in Central Asia, the study says. Road salt made up 44 percent of the country’s salt consumption from 2013 to 2017, the study says.

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

DeSmogBlog

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. In 2013, the bank loaned Country Bird Holdings $25 million to expand existing operations in South Africa, Botswana, and Zambia. as clients.

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UKEF support for sustainable projects doubles to £2.4bn in 2020

Business Green

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. Free and open trade, backed by global rules, offers the lowest income countries a better deal," he said.

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IPCC report: The 10 key conclusions

Business Green

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 by the 2100.