Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Projections to 2050 show that much of sub-Saharan Africa will be unsustainable, with 95% population growth projected, currently 738 million people lack adequate food and all but one country facing extreme water stress. · Since 2019, the world’s concern over climate change has decreased by 1.5%. Food stress. Nairobi skyline.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 29, 2020

Last July was the hottest month ever recorded and 2019 was the second hottest year on record. The five last years have been the hottest on record, as was the decade from 2010-2019. In Europe the winter of 2019-2020 was the hottest on record. Month after month, year after year temperature records keep being broken.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

hours per worker between 2016 and 2019 as a result of warming. However, with much of Europe and the US also experiencing record heatwaves in recent years, the report warns that labour productivity is being undermined by worsening climate impacts at a global level.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

The wind power industry enjoyed its second biggest growth year in history in 2019, adding 60.4GW of new onshore and offshore capacity amid surging demand for clean energy worldwide, latest data from the Global Wind Energy Council (GWEC) has revealed.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. 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.

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 27, 2021

GW of clean energy in 2020, up from 20.1GW in 2019 and 13.6GW in 2018, according to new research published by BloombergNEF (BNEF). GW in 2019 – the first year-on-year drop since 2016. In Latin America PPA volumes dropped from 2G W in 2019 to 1.5G GW in 2019 to a record 7.2 Corporations purchased a record of 23.7

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 11, 2021

gigawatts – a 19% drop compared to 2019. In the onshore market, this was more than was commissioned by the entire world in 2019. This was 77% more than in 2019 and 2.6 GW in Europe and 863 MW in Africa and the Middle East, while Asia Pacific accounted for 57.3 Developers commissioned 96.3 GW across 14 U.S.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

in comparison to 2019, making up 18% of total retail sales globally. According to a poll of 6,000 customers in North America, Europe, and Asia, 72% of respondents are already actively purchasing more environmentally friendly goods. According to an FAO estimate, a staggering 690 million people experienced hunger in 2019.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 25, 2019

Separately on Wednesday, Norwegian oil giant Equinor revealed a partnership with China Power International Holding to develop offshore wind projects in Europe and China. initially before expanding out to Africa and Southeast Asia. The Eni partnership will focus on the U.K. The fourth round of the U.K.’s

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2021

Corporations purchased a record 23.7GW of clean energy over the course of last year, up from 20.1GW in 2019, and 13.6GW in 2018, the new figures reveal. Further south, Latin America also saw PPA volumes drop, declining from 2GW in 2019 to 1.5GW in 2020, as the region was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and a concomitant economic downturn.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

After slight dip in 2020 after the coronavirus crisis green bonds expected to rebound to reach record levels in 2021 with Europe leading the way. Europe continues to lead the green bond market, accounting for 49 per cent of last year's total with $50.1bn issuances, according to Moody's.

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Business Green

JUNE 30, 2021

Pinsent Masons said its new targets commit to reducing its absolute global greenhouse gas emissions, against a 2019 base year. The SBTi has also approved an additional target for the firm to source 100 per cent renewable electricity across its global estate by 2030, which includes locations in Africa, the Middle East, Asia, and Europe.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The first meeting of the Working Group is scheduled to take place in Nairobi, Kenya, from 27-30 August 2019. A series of regional consultations have already taken place, including for Asia and the Pacific, Western Europe and Others Group and other members of the EU, Africa, Central and Eastern Europe and Latin America and the Caribbean.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

In industrialized regions of North America and Europe, it’s roughly a 2 to 1 ratio of loss to waste. And in particularly poverty-stricken regions like parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, there is an even greater difference. More than half of those in extreme poverty live in Sub-Saharan Africa. This is just the tip of the iceberg.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. Swain echoed this. “I

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 31, 2019

This does not seem to be a temporary fix: the team say OSI will continue to expand production of Impossible Foods’ flagship product throughout 2019 and thereafter. “We At the International Consumer Electronics Show in January 2019, Impossible Foods launched its Impossible Burger 2.0 — the company’s first significant product upgrade.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

It confirms that 2019 was a record year for the sector with 6.1GW of new capacity added, as costs continued to fall sharply. Europe implemented unprecedented measures to counter the health crisis which affected all areas of the economy. But wind remained resilient. Our turbines produced a record amount of electricity.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

AUGUST 12, 2019

Rabobank also predicts that China’s pig herd could halve by the end of 2019. Therefore analysts gave the outlook for Europe’s pork market a ‘mixed’ review amid the epidemic. A virus endemic to sub-Saharan Africa. Outbreaks so far in Western, Northern and Eastern Europe, China and Vietnam. Pork production is down 5.5%

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

At present, however, global emissions are moving in the wrong direction, with global energy emissions in 2019 having ticket up 0.9 Around 18 million additional heat pumps are needed every year in the 2020s, while the use of electricity for industrial heating must increase by over 70 per cent from 2019 levels. alive, the report states.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

Intact tropical forests, in particular, play an outsized role in carbon uptake, to say nothing of their wealth of biodiversity (a single hectare of tropical forest can contain as many plant species as all the native species of western Europe). But why in the Amazon and not in Africa? How is climate change affecting this capacity?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

In 2019, the global energy sector employed around 41 million workers, with an additional 24 million working in related energy end use sectors such as vehicle manufacturing and energy efficiency, taking the total to around 65 million overall, or about two per cent of the total global workforce.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A 2019 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) report concluded that the emissions caused by the global food system will increase by 30 to 40 percent by 2050, without intervention such as dietary change towards more plant-based diets. per capita per day in Africa, 77.57g in Asia, 86.09g in South America, and 102.06g in Europe.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

The world’s total renewable power capacity will grow 50 percent between 2019 and 2024, according to the International Energy Agency. “Greece is the only country in Southeast Europe to have announced a coal phaseout date,” noted advocacy group Europe Beyond Coal in a press statement. China: Solar and wind.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The announcement is the latest in a string of new decarbonisation measures across Asia confirmed since China announced in September that it was aiming to deliver net zero emissions by 2060. UN warns Africa climate impacts escalating. Rockerfeller foundation launches $1bn green recovery funding push.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 26, 2019

pic.twitter.com/n9huwHUSGI — Greta Thunberg (@GretaThunberg) August 25, 2019 Making small changes to one’s daily life is likewise becoming ever more popular, and an ever more accessible way for people all over the world to join in the movement to safeguard the future, and perhaps in this way such a movement can begin to have sway.

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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. While this year has seen an exceptionally large jump, the tracker market will grow on average by 11 percent annually from 2019 through 2024. prices stagnate.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 28, 2020

While six of the ten most costly events took place in Asia, the charity notes that that extreme weather was felt all over the world last year. Meanwhile in East Africa, huge locust swarms linked to unusual rains fuelled by climate change ravaged crops and vegetation across several countries, causing roughly $8.5bn of damages, it calculates.

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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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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). This work is particularly important in the context of Asia and Africa that account for 80% of the world’s population. Image: Varun Deshpande speaking at Good Food Conference 2019.

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Charged

MARCH 1, 2024

The US is learning from some mistakes that have been made in Europe. We have a few in Europe who are classic charge point operators. Another one that I can mention is from the Nordics, and they are also now launching in different places in Europe, from Germany to the UK. This is one of the reasons companies will turn to us.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Dennis Tung, 2019 This book highlights the significance of using sustainable energy to prevent the deterioration of our planet using heat pumps. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea. Design with Nature Now by Frederick R. Venus Lun, S.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

This is considerably higher compared to 2019, when the 4+ year old ice extent stood at 55,000 square kilometers. With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.) The more multi-year ice, the better it is for the Arctic.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

An analysis carried out for the Carbon Brief website that builds on research published last year by Professor Sam Fankhauser and Dr Shaikh Eskander, calculates that climate laws adopted by G7 nations resulted in 1.3Gt of CO2 savings in 2019, delivering a 12 per cent reduction in emissions compared to a business as usual scenario.

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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. For example, on Earth Day 2019, Allbirds committed to carbon neutrality from that year forward through an internal carbon tax. Elsa Wenzel.

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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. In that case, 2019 would go into the books as the peak year: from 2020 it will only decrease with demand.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Many observers now fear hopes that emissions may have peaked in 2019 could prove premature. Article 6 was omitted from a rulebook at the last COP in 2019 in Madrid, after lengthy negotiations ended in deadlock, and there are still big gaps in the final agreement that diplomats are tasked with resolving in Glasgow. Known unknowns.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 11, 2019

Incredible heat blanketed four continents this summer, with records falling across Europe and Asia. Finally, Capetown, South Africa, is essentially out of water due in part to drought — the city nearly shut off all the taps this year, but has held off “Day Zero” through ongoing restrictions and aggressive citizen action.

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