Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 16, 2017

Primarily, they are centered in parts of Africa, parts of India, Pakistan and regions in Asia – and most of them are centered in rural areas. In Africa , for example, the national electrification rate is 45%. Not really, right? billion people live without access to electric energy. Little Sun Original on the road.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 16, 2020

billion people living in such environments within 30 years and our current cities emitting 50-60 per cent of global greenhouse gases (GHGs), a sustainable future is impossible without significantly transforming how we build and manage urban spaces. Peter Michaelis is head of Liontrust's sustainable investment team. With some 6.5

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The GMA files also namecheck influential pro-meat individuals such as author and podcaster Diana Rodgers, who has been referenced by the Global Meat Alliance in a previous campaign, which targeted the UN Food System Summit. Rodgers defends meat-eating as sustainable and has spoken against measures to curb its consumption in rich countries.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Australia's 2018-2019 summer was the hottest ever recorded, while heat records were also broken in France, Germany, and the UK, and Siberia and Alaska saw unusually high levels of fire activity, along with large parts of South East Asia and South America.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Deforestation and fires have soared in the Amazon Rainforest in recent years, while huge global demand for products such as palm oil, soy, and timber is also driving destruction of critical forests in Asia, Africa, and beyond. Corporate efforts to combat the issue have also largely failed.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Sustainable farming campaigners such as the U.K. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 22, 2021

And bioenergy also has a key role to play in decarbonising aviation and shipping, with sustainable aviation fuels (SAF) needing to account for 18 per cent of aircraft fuel by the end of the decade, according to the analysis. At present, around 83 per cent of primary energy is currently fossil fuels, while wind and solar PV account for just 1.3

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

But demand for polluting fossil fuel-derived plastics could peak by 2035 if business and government works together to create a more sustainable plastic supply chain, report finds. of pre-industrial levels," he said.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

The performance was driven by significant growth in Asia where 141GW of new capacity was added in China alone, helping to take Asia's total renewables capacity to 1.63TW of capacity.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

That report concluded that we have already reached average global warming of 1.1 And they could see the effects of our warming world around them. Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. Sustainable investments have now reached 4 trillion dollars. degrees limit within two decades.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

By restoring degraded ecosystems and effectively and equitably conserving 30 to 50 per cent of Earth's land, freshwater and ocean habitats, society can benefit from nature's capacity to absorb and store carbon, and we can accelerate progress towards sustainable development, but adequate finance and political support are essential.".

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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. China tops EV market league table, as global demand continues to surge. GFANZ launches new Asia-Pacific Network.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Here are fifty recently published books on the subjects of global warming, climate mitigation and social change. Sustainability and business 3. Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. Practical Sustainability Strategies: How to Gain a Competitive Advantage, 2nd Edition by George P.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2022

The UK, the EU, France, Germany, the US, Italy, Canada, Japan, Norway, and Denmark have all backed the plan, which mirrors similar agreements reached with Indonesia and South Africa. Vietnam is a dynamic, emerging economy at the heart of South East Asia," he added. A global clean tech race has started.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

These impacts are "hindering efforts to meet basic human needs and they threaten sustainable development across the globe", leaving all life on Earth vulnerable, the report states. Even in a world with low greenhouse gas emissions - warming below 1.6C World must urgently slash emissions, as well as boost resilience to climate impacts.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.) Just to give an example, for journeys between Europe and Asia, the Northern Sea Route can already be two to three weeks faster than the Suez Canal. will go down significantly, leading to more economic activity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2020

It is by now well recognised that nature-based climate solutions can provide more than a third of the carbon reductions needed to keep global warming below 2C, the target agreed at the Paris climate talks. Avoided deforestation is a the mos impactful nature-based solution for achieving the Paris Agreement targets.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Yeb Saño, Executive Director at Greenpeace Southeast Asia and Head of the Greenpeace delegation attending the COP, said: "The agreement for a Loss and Damage Finance Fund marks a new dawn for climate justice. Governments and non-state actors must unite to limit global warming to 1.5 We remain committed to 1.5

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

This will be fatal to the Sustainable Development Goals.". The World Health Organisation (WHO) has updated its global air pollution guidelines to take account of greater evidence and improved understanding of the myriad damaging impacts of dirty air on human health and the environment over the past 15 years.

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

How do we transition from fossil-based oil towards a sustainable future? It has been amended upon and received comments by Mr. Sustainability in italic , with the knowledge of the events of the latter part of 2020 and 2021. 5) (5) We can function on exactly the same material, made simply from sustainable sources.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow next month is likely to fall short of putting the world on track to avert dangerous levels of global warming, but diplomats and analysts are cautiously optimistic it could deliver several breakthroughs and broadly deliver on the UK hosts' stated goal of 'keeping 1.5C No one likes to say 1.5C

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Green Market Oracle

MARCH 6, 2020

Read more » Women are the Key to a More Sustainable Future The importance of women to the future of our species goes way beyond their procreative power. Women's Day is an opportunity to advocate for true equality and to share the evidence revealing why women are the more sustainable sex. org for International Women’s Day.

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