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Clime Capital blends finance to raise $127 million for Asia-focused green fund

Impact Alpha

24 – Clime Capital launched in 2020 to de-risk early stage clean energy ventures in southeast Asia. The post Clime Capital blends finance to raise $127 million for Asia-focused green fund appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, Jan. The Singapore-based firm has.

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Canadian LNG Will Stall Asia’s Shift to Renewables, Energy Experts in Asia Say

DeSmogBlog

But an impending flood of liquefied natural gas exports from western Canada to Asia could make it harder for countries there to achieve their national climate targets and contribute to tens of thousands of additional deaths due to air pollution. Oil and gas companies have for years marketed fracked gas from B.C. government last year.

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Deforestation for palm oil reduced ten-fold in Southeast Asia, data reveals

Business Green

New deforestation data has revealed impressive progress in combating forest clearances across Southeast Asia throughout 2020, with just 93,800 acres of deforestation associated with palm oil plantations recorded over the course of the year. If sustained over the next decade, the palm oil industry will have avoided 1.8

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Report: Tesla consumed more lithium than next four EV makers combined in 2020

Charged

In 2020, Tesla deployed 18,700 tons of lithium carbonate equivalent (LCE) in the batteries of its new EVs, more than the next four EV makers (BYD, VW, Renault and Audi) combined, according to the report EV Battery Capacity and Battery Metals Tracker by Adamas Intelligence.

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Asia is too often overlooked in the alt protein conversation. It’s time to change that

AFN Sustainable Protein

In the rest of the world (ROW), Asia particularly, it’s an entirely different story. This is not the case in Asia. The future is Asia. ” Well, Asia is where the action is, folks. See: Beyond Meat’s terrible year.). And almost no one is telling it. Beyond the ‘happy cow’ myth.

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More Record Breaking Heat (Winter and Spring 2020)

Green Market Oracle

January 2020 was the warmest on record with global land and ocean surface temperatures averaging1.14°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. In Europe the winter of 2019-2020 was the hottest on record.

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Global corporate clean energy purchasing up 18% in 2020

Renewable Energy World

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). in 2020, down from 14.1 GW in 2020. Corporations also purchased record clean energy volumes in the Asia Pacific (APAC) region, announcing contracts for 2.9 Companies announced 11.9

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