DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

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. In South Africa, the IFC helped one KFC supplier bolster its operations across the region. The EBRD sold its stake in the company in 2019.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

UN Conference on Trade and Development fears that slowdown in foreign investment could impact flows of climate-related finance. Investment in projects that tackle climate change is expected to decline in 2022 as global foreign direct investment flows drop, according to a report published by the UN Conference on Trade and Development.

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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. · 23 of the 27 are in sub-Saharan Africa and MENA. billion by 2050, representing 49% of the world’s population.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 24, 2024

growth of 2022, attributing this to declines in advanced countries due to the lacklustre macroeconomic environment and high inflation. Significant extra demand also is expected from outside these economies, in particular in China, India and countries in Southeast Asia. The update finds that world demand for electricity grew by 2.2%

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

Narendra Modi’s clarion call for becoming ‘AatmaNirbhar’ in energy sector, DISTRIBUTECH India 2022, together with POWERGEN India and Indian Utility Week, India’s leading Energy Business Platforms, will be organised from 12th-14th October 2022 in New Delhi, India. Have you read?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The group has set a target of unlocking $100bn in public and private capital to improve access to clean power across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. It said the investment would help reach one billion people with reliable, renewable energy, avoid four billion tons of carbon emissions, and create, enable, or improve 150 million jobs.

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Grist

MAY 30, 2024

If this is a biological response, imagine what’s happening in places like India and Africa where the heat can get to an unbearable 130 degrees Fahrenheit,” Basu remembers thinking. percent in South Asia. She wondered if there could be a biological mechanism at work. That notion had troubling implications. “If

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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. The 2022 outbreak showed a different pattern — cholera spread throughout the dry season and by August had moved into Malawi’s northern and central regions. Read more here.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

Samsung’s smart home vision, new light on nano-level electrical circuitry, satellite observations for energy development in Africa and a proposed inflatable moon base are on this week’s technology radar. Satellite data to catalyse energy investment in Africa. Samsung eyes “ultimate sustainable home”. Inflatable moon base.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Worryingly, a 2022 study concluded that the world has already crossed the planetary boundary where chemicals threaten the very ecosystems—including the marine environment—upon which humans and most other species depend. Failure to address marine chemical pollution in a systematic manner risks inflicting irreparable harm on the ocean.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

As senior government ministers hymn the need for investment in net zero, UK’s export finance agency urges British renewables business to export their expertise overseas. The announcements come just day after a group of UK and Nordic pension funds announced they would raise $130bn for clean energy and climate investments by 2030.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

of warming if national emissions goals for 2030 are met, global emissions rose again last year and further uptick of around one per cent expected in 2022. Governments have promised to ramp up clean energy investment and energy efficiency programmes, securing plaudits from green businesses and climate campaigners.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

The UK-based firm revealed later last week it is investing £40m in the project, which is situated at Tiln Farm near Retford and once completed is expected to generate enough electricity to power the needs of over 14,200 homes. million tonnes of CO2 throughout their lifetime compared to fossil fuel generated power, the firm said.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

A group of over 500 global investment managers with more than $39tr in assets under management have this week issued a new statement urging governments around the world to raise their climate ambitions in line with the goal of limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C ahead of the upcoming COP27 Climate Summit.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

The funding, which forms part of the government's Biodiverse Landscapes Fund, is to be shared across six landscapes which are each home to rare and endangered species, including across the southern belt of Africa, Madagascar, East Asia and South and Central America, it said.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

What happened with COVID doesn’t raise my confidence level that people are ready to make the kinds of investments we need,” he said. “I This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Dengue, Lyme, and cholera: how climate change is spurring disease on Mar 3, 2022. I think COVID is a warning. We don’t have this.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

Take the case of July 2022 UK extreme heatwave and spread this sigma (magnitude) in a much huger area, encompassing about 15 countries. The latest heatwave came as the UK Met Office released provisional figures suggesting 2022 was the warmest year on record for the UK.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

So we are over the $100bn for the year 2022, not just 23. Separately, CDC, the UK's development finance institution, will today announce plans today to join a group of donors in committing to substantially increase investments in climate adaptation and resilience to support vulnerable developing and emerging countries.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As pressure on the industry grows to phase out dirty energy and take responsibility for the climate crisis, buying goodwill may be a better marketing investment than ever. In Italy, Eni sponsored the 2022 edition of Sanremo, a nationwide Italian music festival broadcast every February to millions of viewers.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2020

Catastrophic flood events have been reported in Asia, Africa and North America during the pandemic; governments and societies need to recognise the importance and urgency of taking a holistic approach to resilience and increase their level of preparedness to manage compound risks.

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Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2023

“For more than a decade, we’ve understood that investing in portfolio companies requires more than a check. Prior to that, Avra was a Director at National Grid Partners, a corporate venture capital firm investing in a digitized, cleaner energy future.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

They include the North American Meat Institute (NAMI), a powerful group representing large meat producers in the US, which in 2022 was still questioning on its website whether climate change was caused by humans. Just seven percent are based in Africa. Scoones explains that this can lead to unhelpful discussions.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

After a 10 month, three-phase rollout, the grid went online on 30th September 2022. The transformative potential and power of mini-grids in Rwanda, across Africa, and emerging markets more widely, is hugely exciting. "As The Asia and the Pacific Water Resilience Initiative, also known as RUWR: ARe yoU Water Resilient ?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

million in 2021, with another six percentage point growth on the cards by the end of 2022. That trend can be seen in North America, Europe, China, India, Latin America, and Asia Pacific. Only the Middle East, Africa, and Eurasia still employ more people in fossil fuels than in clean energy.

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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2022

BloombergNEF reveals clean energy investment rose 27 per cent last year, but warns further rapid growth is needed to deliver on global climate goals. Investment in renewable energy continued to dominate the market, with a record of $366bn committed in 2021, up 6.5 per cent from the year prior.

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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. Reports: EU to deny gas plants green investment label.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. Though policy choices could reduce this figure, and I would add that it includes investments with long term benefits. An explanation for this was set out clearly in a letter last week from Larry Fink, to the Chief Executives of companies in which Blackrock invests.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

More than a year in the making, the so-called Just Energy Transition Partnership (JETP) aims to mobilise $20bn of investment over the next three to five years to help accelerate Indonesia's transition away from unabated coal power and towards cleaner, renewable sources of electricity, the governments confirmed this morning.

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T Rex Group

JANUARY 26, 2022

T-REX, with its advanced support for private credit and ESG-driven investments, will become part of Riverstone’s Decarbonization Growth Equity platform. “We are more excited than ever about T-REX’s impact as both a strategic investment and a valuable tool for our businesses.”

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T Rex Group

JANUARY 26, 2022

T-REX, with its advanced support for private credit and ESG-driven investments, will become part of Riverstone’s Decarbonization Growth Equity platform. “We are more excited than ever about T-REX’s impact as both a strategic investment and a valuable tool for our businesses.”

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Grist

MARCH 7, 2022

The hotspots for migration, according to the new report, are in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and South America , though small island nations are disproportionately impacted due to the effects of sea-level rise. on Mar 7, 2022. In a climate-disrupted world, more people are going to need to be more mobile.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Flanders moves to ban gas boilers, GFANZ launches new Asia-Pacific network, and New Zealand steps up efforts to tackle agricultural emissions. GFANZ launches new Asia-Pacific Network. Similarly, the global financial system cannot do its fair share without the leadership of the Asia-Pacific financial institutions.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

The first analysis, BloombergNEF's latest biannual report on clean energy procurement, highlights how public institution and corporate procurement of clean energy was up 18 per cent in 2022 from 2021 levels, reaching a record 36.7GW.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Renewables' share of Greece's power mix rose from 42 per cent to 46 per cent over the eight months to August 2022, according to Greek environmental think tank The Green Tank. China needs $17tr cumulative investment to meet its 2060 net zero emissions target, according to an assessment by the World Bank Group this week.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 18, 2022

Getting three big holdouts from a previous deforestation commitment in 2014 — Brazil, Russia and China — was a big win, although India, Saudi Arabia and South Africa are still absent. According to the 2022 Forest Declaration Assessment , deforestation won't end by 2030 unless dramatic changes are taken.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

The company also snagged a partnership with Shopify, which has agreed to purchase all the negative emissions produced from Planetary Hydrogen’s pilot plant, set to come online in 2022. Serving as a United States Marine in the Asia Pacific region, Briana Buckles often witnessed extreme poverty. Myisha Majumder. Stacia Betley, 29.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

More than $400bn in new finance and investment to increase renewables, access to electricity and clean cooking technologies were announced today by governments and businesses around the world at a crucial energy summit at the sidelines of the UN General Assembly in New York City today.

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