Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

Data from International Renewable Energy Association points to slight slowdown in capacity growth last year, but clean energy sector still outpaced fossil fuels. per cent in 2019, with solar and wind making up 90 per cent of new additions, and Asia again dominating the market with 54 per cent of global capacity growth last year.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Last year closed with record high spot prices for gas in Europe and Asia, as the natural gas supply remained constricted. Gas prices and fossil fuels reach record highs in Europe – report Avenues for growth within the energy and environment industry. Have you read? Price squeeze in the global gas market.

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Smart Energy International

AUGUST 24, 2022

Part of the world’s largest series of energy sector events spread across North America, Europe, Australia, Africa & South East Asia, this even brings together over 200 exhibitors and 8000 qualified professionals from the entire value chain of the global power generation, transmission and distribution under one roof.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Kareen Boutonnat, CEO of Lightsource BP for the Europe, Middle East, Africa and Asia-Pacific regions, said developing homegrown sources of solar power was critical to helping combat the energy crisis, which has seen bills soar over the past year thanks to rising fossil fuel prices.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Editor’s Note: This is part of a regular column, Gaslit , which navigates society’s dysfunctional relationship with fossil fuel disinformation. Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. Now the world seems wake up when Europe now hit with 42?C

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

“This means less of a need for reserve power plants that mostly use fossil fuels to produce electricity, which then leads to less carbon dioxide emissions.” At present, ACWA Power has 75 assets in various stages of development and in operation, in geographies including the Middle East, Africa, Central Asia and Southeast Asia.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Salmon is fed on other fish — small, oily, and nutritious pelagic species — which are harvested by the tonne off the West African coastline and pulverized into fishmeal and fish oil for export to Europe and Asia. Last year, we mapped Canada’s hydrogen lobby and revealed how fossil fuel interests are pushing for blue hydrogen in Canada.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The boom was supported by post-Covid stimulus investment packages, especially in Europe, and loose financing conditions for international project finance worldwide," the report said. Europe accounts for more than half of the renewables' projects, with more than 700 in the first three quarters of 2022. This momentum is now at risk.".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 2022

Fossil fuels - oil, gas, and coal - are still very much the backbone of the global energy system, and these industries employ tens of millions of workers around the world. Clean energy employs more people worldwide than fossil fuels. Fossil fuel employment is struggling to recover from the pandemic.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

At the same time, Brussels signaled that it will also encourage the development of "blue" hydrogen produced from fossil fuels paired with carbon capture, at least for the time being. Europe's gas sector strikes upbeat tone. The next-largest proposal, by BP, would use Australian wind and solar to export ammonia to Asia.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The announcement, led by 40 members of the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA), marks the biggest global net zero commitment from the carbon-intensive sector to date, and brings together firms from North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Announced yesterday, the Global Power System Transformation Consortium (G-PST) comprises national electricity system operators from right across the world, including the UK, Australia, California, Texas, Denmark, and 25 other states and nations spanning Europe, Africa, Latin America, and Asia.

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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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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 7, 2022

Part of the world’s largest series of energy events organised across USA, Europe, Africa, SE Asia, Africa & India, the co-located events will bring an unprecedented opportunity, with insights shared by the most forward-thinking policy makers, regulators, industry titans, thought leaders and experts.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

Regionally, Asia-Pacific (APAC) will lead the storage build on a megawatt basis by 2030, but the Americas will build more on a megawatt-hour basis, because storage plants in the U.S. Growth in the region could accelerate as renewables penetration surges, more fossil-fuel generators exit and the battery supply chain becomes more localized.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

Nowhere is a smarter approach needed than one of the last frontiers for coal expansion — Southeast Asia. Export credit agencies alone have been financing $31 billion in fossil fuels every year, with a significant amount of that supporting fossil fuels in Asia, according to Oil Change International.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

The strategy - aimed at tackling and adapting to climate change and halting the decline of plant and animal species - sets out a 10-year vision which it estimates could provide multi-billion euro benefits to Europe's economy and support hundreds of thousands of jobs. Rwanda ramps up Paris Agreement pledge. — Patricia Espinosa C.

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Business Green

MARCH 25, 2020

"Established market players such as China and the US accounted for nearly 60 per cent of new installations, however, we see emerging markets in regions such as South East Asia, Latin America and Africa playing an increasingly important role in the years to come, while offshore wind is also becoming a significant growth driver," he added.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

A rapid shift away from fossil fuels is also needed alongside a major ramp up in renewable electricity capacity - largely provided by wind and solar projects - which will form the backbone of the future energy system, while development of hydrogen, carbon capture and new modular nuclear technologies is also crucial, the report warned.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2022

In the year since, worsening economic forecasts driven by soaring fossil fuel prices have given greater impetus for countries to seek alternative sources of energy to make up the shortfall after Russia was ostracised by the west for its attack on Ukraine. by mid-century.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

But group of petrostates resist calls to phase down fossil fuels and accelerate decarbonisation efforts. Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To The phasedown of all fossil fuels is not in this text.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2021

The greenhouse gas emissions spewed out by fossil fuel burning, forest destruction, and other human activities are now clearly destabilizing the mild climate in which civilization began, the report shows. of heating, heavy rain and flooding are projected to intensify in Europe, North America and most regions of Africa and Asia. “We

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

"Over the coming decade we will see emerging offshore markets like Japan, Korea, and Vietnam move to full deployment, and see the first offshore turbines installed in a number of new countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa.". Furthermore, 1GW of offshore wind power avoids 3.5 But wind remained resilient.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For example, Europe's largest asset manager Amundi and the International Finance Corporation, the private sector arm of the World Bank, today pledged to issue $2bn of sustainable bonds that can support Covid-19 relief efforts and green, resilient and inclusive recovery schemes in developing countries.

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Business Green

AUGUST 12, 2022

Europe opens largest solar plant, Poland advances SMR plans, and Canada seeks more sustainable potatoes in this week's Global Briefing. There had also been speculation that candidates from Asia or Africa were likely to be preferred given the past four holders of the post have been from Latin America and Europe.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

We need the animal agriculture equivalent of ‘keep it in the ground’ for fossil fuels,” she adds. “It’s In 2022, DeSmog’s analysis of the major sustainable farming initiative AIM for Climate (or Aim4C) found that more than two thirds of some 300 partners were located in the United States or Europe.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

The analysis warns that China and Europe are "visibly pulling ahead", in both market share and absolute terms, compared to other markets when it comes to EV deployment. The Global Facility to Decarbonise Transport projects also includes a dedicated package for the broader Sub-Saharan Africa region. per cent of existing oil demand.

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

The rest of those emissions are absorbed by intact forests along with additional emissions from fossil fuel combustion, making forests a net carbon sink. Figure 2: Modeled past and future carbon dynamics of structurally intact old-growth tropical forests in Africa and Amazonia. But why in the Amazon and not in Africa?

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Business Green

JANUARY 20, 2022

For context, 100GW is more than the UK's entire current electricity capacity, which stands at around 75GW from both clean and fossil fuel sources. In reality, you will see a lot of companies from Europe coming and asking to supply them green hydrogen, but the only issue is the price.

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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. Take the record-breaking temperatures that swept over Europe last summer, sending the thermostat soaring above 100 degrees F across the continent, resulting in more than 61,000 deaths.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

We are also pushing for the transition from fossil fuel-based technology utilisation to cleaner energy sources to ensure more sustainable growth for the country.". Analysts warn Asian net zero pledges could dent Australian fossil fuel exports. Rockerfeller foundation launches $1bn green recovery funding push.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. It calls on countries to phase-down unabated coal power and phase-out inefficient fossil fuel subsidies. For example, 34 countries and five public finance institutions committed to stop international support for the fossil fuel energy sector by the end of 2022.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A study published in Science found that “even if fossil fuel emissions were immediately halted, current trends in global food systems would prevent the achievement of the 1.5°C per capita per day in Africa, 77.57g in Asia, 86.09g in South America, and 102.06g in Europe. gigatonnes (Gt) of CO2e and sequester 8.1

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

Kaarina Kolle, senior coal finance and utility coordinator at green campaign group Europe Beyond Coal, applauded the news. EZ, and €1,263m to Finland' Fortum between November 2018 and December 2019, according to research set to be published by Europe Beyond Coal campaign this month.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Leaders of the world's biggest economies have today signalled their continued support for an ambitious outcome from the tense on-going climate negotiations at the COP27 Summit, emphasising their support for capping global warming at 1.5C, ramping up climate finance, cutting back on coal power, and phasing out fossil fuel subsidies.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

The UN reports that temperature increases in the Sahel region of Africa will be 1.5 In the Arctic, melting sea ice is amplifying strategic competition as the accessibility of resources improves, particularly mineral and fossil fuel deposits. times higher than the global average.

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