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Almost nowhere on Earth safe from PM2.5, says Melbourne study

Envirotec Magazine

Calcutta, India: In southern Asia and eastern Asia, more than 90% of days had daily PM 2.5 concentrations at a high spatial resolution of approximately 10km ×10km for global grid cells in 2000-2019, focusing on areas above 15 μg/m³ which is considered the safe limit by WHO (The threshold is still arguable),” he said.

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Counting the microns

Envirotec Magazine

exposure, for which the upper limit is 500 µg/m 3 – which adds perspective to New Delhi’s lung-rupturing 900 µg/m3 levels recorded in late 2019. The report also said 7% of cities in Europe met the WHO PM2.5 levels but remains the most polluted country in Europe, with an annual average concentration of 27.5

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Global e-waste has risen 21% in five years, says UN

Envirotec Magazine

million tonnes (Mt) of e-waste was produced globally in 2019, the weight of 350 cruise ships the size of the Queen Mary 2; $57 billion in gold and other components discarded – mostly dumped or burned. per cent of 2019’s e-waste was collected and recycled. Mt) and Europe (12 Mt), while Africa and Oceania generated 2.9

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What Other Countries Can Learn From Australia’s Roaring Rooftop Solar Market

GreenTechMedia

A RenewEconomy analysis of International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) figures for 2019 shows Australia’s per-capita deployment rate was also four times higher than fast-developing renewable markets such as China, Europe, Japan and the U.S. But it added 6.2 gigawatts of capacity last year, growing more than 18 percent.

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Building the Digital Energy Retailer: Lessons From IDC’s Worldwide Utilities 2020 Predictions

Bidgely

For IDC Energy Insights, this effort rests on an analyst team that stretches from Europe to Asia, Oceania and North America. While poor CX is a global utility phenomenon, it has deeper ramifications in those regions where the energy market has been liberalised, including Europe. out of 5 respectively.

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Keeping 1.5C alive: Is COP26 on track to deliver on its goals?

Business Green

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.