DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

This report exposes in shocking detail the damage inflicted by the extraction of fish from West Africa, driven by demand from major aquaculture and agriculture corporations around the world,” said Yves Reichling from sustainable food campaign group Feedback EU. “We In all three countries, fisheries regulations are historically under enforced.

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Africa Demand Seafood Agriculture 84

Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Insects fared better in the Amazonian region, Africa, Western Australia, and Eastern and Central Europe, while achieving less protected area coverage in North America and South and Southeast Asia. There are more than 200,000 protected areas around the globe , including marine protected areas.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The study, which is under peer review in the scientific journal Lancet Planetary Health, is based on surveys of 10,000 children and people aged 16-25 in 10 countries across Europe, the Americas, Asia, Africa, and Australasia and was carried out by academics from institutions in Europe and North America.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 22, 2021

ACOBA has recommended a series of conditions be imposed on O’Neill’s FTI work, similar to existing ones that apply to her consultancy, ClaireON Ltd, through which her FTI role, as Senior Advisor for Europe, Middle East and Africa, will be conducted. FTI’s Brussels headquarters is the same as that of the Hydrogen Council.

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Grist

JULY 27, 2023

Read next: A brain-swelling illness spread by ticks is on the rise in Europe] When contracted, the fungus can cause bloodstream, wound, and respiratory infections, and other severe illnesses. there were 2,377 confirmed clinical cases diagnosed last year — an increase of more than 1,200 percent since 2017. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Health Climate change Europe Global warming 91

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 13, 2021

Since at least 2017, the EU, led by Italy, has trained and equipped the Libyan Coast Guard to serve as a proxy maritime force, whose central purpose is to stop migrants from reaching European shores. Rising seas, desertification, famine — all of it will drive the desperate to places like Europe and the U.S.,

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Grist

AUGUST 1, 2023

In early 2022, nearly 200,000 Malawians were displaced after two tropical storms struck the southeastern part of Africa barely a month apart. We have seen that in the greater Horn of Africa.” Read more here. Sixty-four people died. In the US, a fungal disease is spreading fast. A hotter climate could be to blame. Kamadju agrees.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

To tackle its Scope 1 and 2 emissions, the firm said it has established a transition roadmap that will build on the fact all its UK company-owned stores have used 100 per cent renewable electricity since 2017 and its UK roastery also switched to 100 per cent renewable power last year.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Elsewhere, a 2017 paper in the South African Journal on Human Rights identified SLAPPs as an emerging obstacle to public interest environmental litigation in the country. Europe is another problem area. When [people and organizations] are forced to spend money and time in courts, this discourages them from activism,” she says.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The investigation assessed the employment history and affiliations of 565 bank directors from the boards of major retail banks in the UK, US, Canada, Europe, South Africa, China and Japan. In Europe, Deutsche Bank director Paul Achleitner has worked across big names in German agribusiness, car manufacturing and energy.

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Fossil fuels Pollution Carbon-negative Carbon 108

Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 3, 2019

It launched NKG BLOOM in 2017 to connect coffee growers in Uganda with farming inputs, financing and training. ImpactAlpha, October 3 – Global coffee giant Neumann Kaffee Gruppe is working to boost the incomes and resilience of smallholder farmers in its supply chain.

Investment 58

Investment Sustainability Resilience Africa 58

Green Tech Challenge

DECEMBER 6, 2017

Founded by Jessica Buhl-Nielsen (26) and Malena Sigurgeirsdottir (27) in January 2017. She spent a year in East Africa researching the nutritional benefits of eating insects and its impact on livelihoods. . Where do you see yourself/company in 10 years?

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Africa Startups Agriculture Europe 40

Business Green

APRIL 3, 2022

And in Europe, according to Pew Research Center, climate change is seen as an even bigger threat than coronavirus. Matt Brittin is president of Google for the Europe, Middle East and Africa regions. Across the world, people are voting with their feet for sustainable choices.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Headquartered in the outskirts of Paris, the Bolloré Group — under the name of its holding company, Compagnie de l’Odet — sits at 177 on the Fortune 500 Europe list of largest companies for 2023 , with 19.77 A 2017 YouTube video depicts on-the-ground logistics management for “an operation dedicated entirely to Shell” in Port Gentil, Gabon.

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Logistics Fossil fuels Climate change Transportation 118

AGreenLiving

AUGUST 17, 2020

In March, when countries in Europe started imposing lockdown measures, many small vessel fishers were put out of business. Further, the data also shows a significant increase in the amount of time super trawlers have spent in protected waters since 2017.

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Europe Organic Government Africa 28

Business Green

MARCH 28, 2022

Martin Bradley, head of Macquarie Asset Management's real assets team in Europe, the Middle East and Africa, said the consortium's investment would help ensure Britain's gas transmission system plays a "leading role" in preparing the energy system for a net zero emission economy.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 36

Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Under the relentless sun in Africa, the birthplace of humanity, every living thing had to find a way to beat the heat. In 2017, Mora and colleagues found that 30 percent of the world’s population was already exposed to potentially deadly heat for 20 days or more each year.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Coca-Cola's sustainability director for Europe Therese Noordlander talks to BusinessGreen about the drinks giant's mission to drive down emissions and ramp up its recycling efforts. On topics like water scarcity, where we face serious issues in Europe, I'm looking to learn from my colleagues in Africa and Brazil.".

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

By 2017, more than 1 million people had been infected in the Americas. 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. Virgin Islands.

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Health Climate change Soil South America 143

DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 19, 2024

The program aims to transform Italy into “ an energy hub ” distributing fossil fuels extracted from Africa that creates “ a bridge between Europe and Africa.” Campaigners in Italy and across Africa have criticized the plan, saying it will promote fossil fuel exploitation and “false solutions.” from the Paris Agreement.

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Fossil fuels Climate change Global warming Africa 132

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

‘Plant-based diets do not solve the problem of climate change’ The meat industry often dismisses dietary change as a means of tackling climate change and claims that meat production only has a small emissions footprint, quoting a 2017 study by researchers at Virginia Tech’s Department of Animal and Poultry Science and the U.S.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 93

GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 5, 2019

However, over the next five years, the global tracker market is expected to expand significantly, driven by growth in Europe, the Middle East and Africa. After a sharp decline, the global tracker average selling price (ASP) plateaued briefly from 2017 to 2018, largely the result of rising steel prices and U.S.-imposed

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Green Business Bureau

JUNE 2, 2022

For instance, according to a recent survey by the CFA Institute , ESG-linked loans to companies in Europe have more than quadrupled – from €27 billion in 2017 to €102 billion in 2019. Countries included are Australia, China, South Africa, and the United Kingdom.

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Organic Government Sustainability Demand 148

R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 27, 2020

Invinity does have commercial applications of its VFBs installed at more than 40 sites across Europe, North America, Africa, Asia and Australasia. Invinity has produced about 250 modules since 2017, and they are currently building a site, part of the Energy Superhub Oxford in the UK, that will have 162 modules. .

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2023

The Federation of Veterinarians of Europe did not respond to a request for comment. The EU’s ambitious Farm to Fork Strategy – a package of commitments designed to make farming in Europe more sustainable – aims to cut farm antibiotic use by 50 percent from 2018 levels by 2030. A shortage of vets for food animals – in the U.S. ,

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Building Energy Monitoring Medicine Health Agriculture 111

Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

South-Korea's KEPCO, Japan's Marubeni and Indonesia's PLN, which received $600m, $299m, and $65m respectively from the bank between 2017 and September 2019 according to campaign group CoalExit, will soon no longer be eligible for support. BNP Paribas granted €185m to Germany's RWE, €150m to Czechia's ?EZ,

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

for a new fund that focuses on digitization and decarbonization investments in Europe. Meanwhile, Southern California Edison agreed to pay an $80m settlement for the 2017 Thomas fire which burned more than a thousand homes and over 400 square miles. New Funds Verdane , an Oslo, Norway-based investment firm, raised $1.2b

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Energy Monitor Investment Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 111

Business Green

APRIL 28, 2021

Mondi has been working with the International Union of Forest Research Organizations (IUFRO) since 2017, exploring the outlook of climate change and impact on Europe's forests and wood supply. million hectares of natural forestry landholdings in Russia and 254,000 hectares of plantation forestry landholdings in South Africa.

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Climate change Sea level rise Sustainability Logging 36

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 6, 2019

Outside of India, the GFI already has regional offices in Brazil, Asia Pacific (Hong Kong), Israel, and Europe (London and Brussels). Varun Deshpande became the managing director for GFI India in December 2017 which also made him the first GFI India employee. VD: India has the largest vegetarian population of any country in the world.

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Demand Asia Africa Agriculture 52

The Verge: Energy

JANUARY 3, 2024

Image: Global Fishing Watch Data analysis reveals that about 75 percent of the world’s industrial fishing vessels are not publicly tracked, with much of that fishing taking place around Africa and South Asia. Nearly all of the offshore wind development took place off the coasts of northern Europe and China.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Asia Africa 144

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Handbook of Climate Change Mitigation and Adaptation, edited by Wei-Yin Chen, Toshio Suzuki, Maximilian Lackner, 2017 There is a mounting consensus that human behavior is changing the global climate and its consequence could be catastrophic.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

Climate 4.0

OCTOBER 5, 2021

I ran three little polls on my twitter account last week, seeking people's opinion as to what will be the most consequential country 30 years from now – in Sub-Saharan Africa, Europe, and the world. For Africa, I listed four places – Nigeria, the Democratic Republic of the Congo (formerly Zaire), Kenya/Tanzania, and South Africa.

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Africa Sustainability Climate change Europe 78

Business Green

APRIL 28, 2020

It's interesting to discuss SDG17 at the moment," reflects Hans Daems, group public affairs officer at Hitachi Europe. Bilateral ODA (overseas development assistance) to least developed countries fell by three per cent in real terms from 2017, aid to Africa fell by four per cent, and humanitarian aid fell by eight per cent," the UN said.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Sustainability 79

EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Prior to his current role, Babatunde worked as a consultant at the World Bank Group, researching the effects of import duties and VAT on solar products in West Africa. She/Her/Hers) Sustainability Strategist, Futerra London, UK, Europe J. Babatunde possesses a Ph.D. in Energy and Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

He also worked with Nestlé while at McCann Enterprise to develop a low-technology platform for communicating nutrition and health information to low-literate consumers in equatorial Africa. Africa counts more entrepreneurs than any other continent. I think [the COVID-19 crisis] will just help accelerate that," he says.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

She is at the center of the NGO’s working relationship with Walmart , among other retailers and consumer brands, helping it launch in 2017 an expansive strategy to reduce its chemical footprint for consumables by 10 percent by 2022. . She was executive producer of the 2017 documentary "Without a Net: The Digital Divide in America." .

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Sustainability Plastics Organic Retail 546

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The second camp sees a growing role for fossil fuels as the global population expands and hundreds of millions of people seek to join the energy-intensive middle classes, especially in Asia and Africa. One example of a company already leading the charge is Chemport Europe. in 2017. + Camp 1 – No, Oil will not recover.

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