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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.

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Nature’s air sensors are growing on your street

Grist

In 2013, Jovan and her team sampled moss from 346 trees around Portland and tested them for metal pollutants like lead, arsenic, and chromium. And in the middle of that industrial valley are two residential neighborhoods: Georgetown and South Park. “ They face a lot of environmental health concerns , like asthma or heart disease. “We

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The disease after tomorrow

Grist

Many of us have spent the last two-and-a-half years worried about the health risks posed by other people. As the climate warms, more health risks will come not only from other people, but increasingly from the environment around us. The first case of chikungunya in the Western Hemisphere was discovered in 2013 in the Caribbean.

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Nature’s air sensors are growing on your street

Grist

In 2013, Jovan and her team sampled moss from 346 trees around Portland and tested them for metal pollutants like lead, arsenic, and chromium. And in the middle of that industrial valley are two residential neighborhoods: Georgetown and South Park. “ They face a lot of environmental health concerns , like asthma or heart disease. “We

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Meat Industry Climate Claims – Criticisms and Concerns

DeSmogBlog

According to a 2016 study by public health, nutrition and environmental experts, replacing beef with beans in the American diet would free up 42 percent of U.S. The latest protein supply figures from the UN Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) for 2013 recorded average protein consumption of 69.1g cropland and help the U.S.

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How regulations can tear down the barriers faced by the cultivated meat industry

Business Green

In 2013, the first hamburger patty was grown from animal cells. Similarly, chickens in the UK are largely fed on soya which is often imported from South America. The report defines a cultivated meat as one which has been produced using tissue engineering techniques that have been pioneered in regenerative medicine.

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The search for the Dr. Fauci of climate change

Grist

When she died in 2013, no doctors mentioned environmental causes. In the mind of the public, health and climate change represent different and separate realms of knowledge and concern,” laments the latest annual report on health and climate change published by the leading medical journal The Lancet earlier this year.