DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

In the report – which surveyed village officials, tourism workers, fishmeal factory employees, and local fish workers, among others – researchers documented that since the arrival of the factories in 2016, fish had jumped in price, fish-smokers and dryers had lost work, and widespread pollution was damaging local ecology and tourism.

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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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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 7, 2022

By the end of 2016 (the most recent data released), CTG’s consolidated installed capacity had reached about 70 GW and total installed capacity — including capacities commissioned, under construction and on a minority-equity basis — had reached 118 GW.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 29, 2020

This surpassed the record set in January 2016 by 0.02°C. The average global land and ocean surface temperature for February 2020 was 1.17 °C above the 20th-century average and the second-highest on record behind 2016. April 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest April on record worldwide. C above the 20th-century average.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 13, 2022

ImpactAlpha, January 13 – Abidjan-based ANKA is trying to help Africa’s retailers reach more customers. The company launched in 2016 as Afrikrea, an. The post VestedWorld backs e-commerce venture ANKA in Côte D’Ivoire appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Charged

AUGUST 16, 2022

As CNN reports, the truck was designed by former Formula One engineer Gordon Murray in 2016, commissioned by a non-profit called the Global Vehicle Trust. Sub-Saharan Africa has few paved roads, and this means the expense of getting products to market can be prohibitive for small farmers.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 4, 2020

In 2016, the rising cost of new nuclear in the U.K. Meanwhile, the Dii re-emerged this year in connection with plans to develop hydrogen in North Africa, an idea that has met with a lukewarm reception from observers. That didn’t put others off trying to follow suit, though. And now there’s Xlinks.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

Researchers have documented the insects making their homes in higher places that are typically too cool for them, from the tropical highlands of South America to the mountainous but populous regions of eastern Africa. A recent Georgetown University study found them moving upward in sub-Saharan Africa at the rate of 21 feet per year.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

hours per worker between 2016 and 2019 as a result of warming. Authors of the report, Elizabeth Robinson and Shouro Dasgupta, estimate that there has been a loss of around 158.4

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Planet Pulse

JULY 25, 2023

A high-pressure system called an anticyclone reached the region from Africa and created a heat dome , thrusting the sizzling peninsula into peril with both atmospheric and land surface temperatures (LST) routinely exceeding 40°C (104°F) across the region. A rolling average from the previous 14 days is shown in magenta.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 7, 2020

But Kocher, an Engie veteran who took the CEO job in 2016, has not exactly been sitting on her hands when it comes to the energy transition. Engie is also actively building a customer base in Africa’s off-grid market.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 30, 2020

With that in mind, we acquired Saft , a major battery maker, in 2016, primarily to develop energy storage to support the growth of intermittent renewable energies such as solar and wind. “In 2015, Total set an ambition to become the responsible energy major," said Total CEO Patrick Pouyanné in a statement.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 5, 2020

People buy it just like they buy cocoa from West Africa: It has that special profile that they're looking for. A Thomson Reuters Foundation investigation in 2016 found children "dying in crumbling, illegal mica mines … but their deaths were covered up." It's one of the highest quality, if not the highest quality, in the world.".

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Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

According to the study, the most severe event of the last two decades was the extreme rain that hit sub-Saharan Africa beginning in 2020. The most severe drought took place in northeastern South America from 2015 to 2016, followed by the ongoing drought in the Cerrado region of Brazil.

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AGreenLiving

JULY 31, 2020

Created for ADS (Africa Development Solutions) Cabo Verde, the Floating Music Hub builds on NLÉ’s objective to shape architecture in developing cities and communities. NLÉ first debuted its Makoko Floating System in 2012 with the Makoko Floating School in Lagos; the project collapsed after being adversely affected by heavy rains in 2016.

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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. In December 2016 a total of 0.6% British electrification.

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Grist

AUGUST 30, 2023

In April 2016, a wildfire burned 2,000 acres of Minnewaska State Park, a nature preserve in New York’s Hudson Valley. New growth in Sam’s Point after the record-breaking 2016 wildfire in Minnewaska State Park. Zoya Teirstein A pitch pine shows signs of life after a wildfire in Minnewaska State Park 2016.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

They pledged to invest more than US$10 billion in developing crude oil production in East Africa, in addition to the estimated $3.5-$5 Barclays bank, which between 2016 and 2020 provided $2.85 5 billion cost of the pipeline. . Among them are the African Development Bank and UK’s Export Credit Agency.

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

Both goals were established in 2016 with a target date of 2021. Bank of America has become the latest corporate to hit carbon neutrality, with the firm announcing yesterday it has met the target a year ahead of schedule. At the same time, the US investment giant achieved a linked target of using 100 per cent renewable electricity, it said.

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Impact Alpha

JULY 21, 2020

ImpactAlpha, July 21 – Lagos-based TradeDepot launched in 2016 with a mobile app and Whatsapp service that helps the mostly women owners of small kiosks and corner shops source inventory from companies like Unilever and Danone. With $10 million in funding from Partech, International Finance Corp.,

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

Total acquired energy storage manufacturer Saft in 2016. ” Total has 3 gigawatts of renewables in operation so far, with solar projects spread around the globe including in Chile, South Africa and Japan. It bought a 60 percent stake in SunPower in 2011 and plans to retain a share of the manufacturing spinoff company Maxeon.

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Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

According to the study, the most severe event of the last two decades was the extreme rain that hit sub-Saharan Africa beginning in 2020. The most severe drought took place in northeastern South America from 2015 to 2016, followed by the ongoing drought in the Cerrado region of Brazil.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Anglo American has partnered with Engie to develop the world’s largest hydrogen-powered mine haul truck, which is expected to begin testing this year at a metals mine in South Africa. Anglo American has also installed an 84-kilowatt floating solar array at its tailings pond at Los Bronces, a first for the industry, Martinez said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

"We expect the depletion of our coal resource base in Colombia, and to a lesser extent South Africa and Australia to contribute," the firm added. We are on track to achieve a near doubling our first GHG reduction target of reducing emissions intensity by at least five per cent by 2020 compared to a 2016 base line," the report stated.

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Business Green

JULY 27, 2020

The firm hopes to double its staff team over the coming year while focusing on deploying its products within emerging markets such as Sub Sarahan Africa and Latin America, as well as more developed markets across the UK, Europe, and the newer US and Indian markets.

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Business Green

APRIL 16, 2020

According to the the report, nearly 10 per cent of the UK's carbon footprint is incurred in the EU, more than seven per cent in China, and more than five per cent in Africa and the Middle East. The UK's carbon footprint is shrinking, but not as drastically as some figures suggest, a new report has warned.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 30, 2024

and innogy since its formation in 2016 as an in-house investment adviso r and subsequently transitioning to an independent venture capital company, and regards this new fund as “the next step on our journey”. With the fund, E.ON Future Energy Ventures has been active in the energy tech ecosystem for E.ON

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Shine is an associate of the Institute for European Environment Policy, a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, and has worked as a legal adviser to the World Bank, European Union, the Council of Europe, and a number of governments in Africa. She was also the Financial Times' theatre critic in France from 2001-2011. "As

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 12, 2022

Key milestones the utility records were the adoption of Google Glasses in 2014 and Microsoft’s HoloLens technology in 2016. DEWA asserts being one of the first government entities in Dubai to complete the smart transformation of all its services in 2014. Sign up to our newsletter and stay informed.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2020

million square kilometres of forest were lost between 1990 and 2016, an area bigger than South Africa. Recent decades have seen deforestation become a major global driver of climate change and biodiversity loss, particularly in tropical regions. World Bank statistics suggest 1.3

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 27, 2020

Harry has long been active in conservation work in Africa, having visited since his teens. Soon after Markle met him in 2016, Harry invited her to camp in the Botswana wilderness. Botswana featured prominently in the royal love story between Markle and Harry.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

More than 70 per cent of large-scale farmers in the US, France, China, Brazil, India and across much of Africa harbour significant concerns about the impact of climate change on their crops and business over the next five years, the findings of a major new Ipsos Mori poll have shown. warming trajectory.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

These illnesses will “continue to tax our public health and medical care systems for years to come,” experts from the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention, or CDC, wrote in a 2016 analysis. between 2016 and 2020. rose by 32 percent between 2016 and 2018 , according to the CDC. as the environment changes. Virgin Islands.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

The microinverter maker reached “substantial doubt about our ability to continue as a going concern” territory in 2016 as it struggled against rising competition from rival SolarEdge and other inverter makers. But it has since slashed costs, rebuilt its competitive posture, and regained market share.

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Business Green

JULY 5, 2021

Water access remains at its worst in Sub-Saharan Africa where only 54 per cent of people have access to safe drinking water, falling to just 25 per cent in some regions. Between 2016 and 2020, the global population with safely managed drinking water at home increased from 70 per cent to 74 per cent.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 22, 2020

Shine is an associate of the Institute for European Environment Policy, a member of the IUCN Commission on Environmental Law, and has worked as a legal adviser to the World Bank, European Union, the Council of Europe, and a number of governments in Africa. She was also the Financial Times' theatre critic in France from 2001-2011. "As

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 25, 2021

2020 was, along with 2016, the joint hottest year on record ever — closing out the warmest decade on record ever. Launched in 2018 with the Canadian and UK Governments, GPAP is now helping countries across ASEAN and West Africa to tackle ocean plastic waste. The state of the planet. Global average temperatures are now about 1.2

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