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Billions of dollars being used to fund coal power in Africa and Asia

Envirotec Magazine

Research published on 16 September highlights the troubling trend of pockets of funders continuing to finance additional coal-fired generation capacity in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. high-impact countries) to identify those receiving finance for coal-fired power, the sources of this investment, its key drivers and the risks attached.

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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. The TRIR, measuring the number of injuries per million hours worked, fell from 3.28 in 2021 to 2.82 in 2022 (down from 5.52 in 2021 to 1.03 in 2022 (down from 1.98

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More Record Breaking Heat (Winter and Spring 2020)

Green Market Oracle

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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Study: Climate change already having adverse effect on labour markets globally 

Business Green

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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China Three Gorges starts work on 1.7 GW pumped storage station

Renewable Energy World

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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TaniHub Group secures $65.5 million for its agtech platform in Indonesia

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 24 — TaniHub Group launched in 2016 to help smallholder farmers in Indonesia reach more customers and grow their income. “There. The post TaniHub Group secures $65.5 million for its agtech platform in Indonesia appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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KKR invests $45 million in GrowSari to digitalize ‘sari-saris’ in the Philippines

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, January 27 — GrowSari, launched in 2016, helps more than 100,000 Filipino owners of brick-and-mortar retail convenience stores, or “sari-sari” stores, make. The post KKR invests $45 million in GrowSari to digitalize ‘sari-saris’ in the Philippines appeared first on ImpactAlpha.