Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The report, titled The labour force in a changing climate: research and policy needs , explores how heat waves are leading to a reduction in the number of working hours in many countries, which is in turn resulting in reduced labour productivity. hours per worker between 2016 and 2019 as a result of warming. Dasgupta said.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

The researchers found the governance of its local MSW management system to be robust and noted significant support from the state government for the implementation of sorting and composting units across the state. The results have been very positive in both cases.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2021

Climate Services for a Net Zero Resilient World aims to help inform future government climate and net zero policies. This research will be vital to ensure we're making the best possible choices on our journey to net zero, making certain the UK is adaptable and more resilient to the effects of climate change.".

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ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 18, 2023

PGE believes that Kenya offers a positive business opportunity because of stable business growth and a government policy that encourages the growth of the geothermal sector, thus providing baseload power that is environment-friendly and cost-effective.

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Africa Policy Government Energy 59

Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Opponents of climate policy say curbing fossil fuel emissions will kill jobs, but a new study showed that switching to renewables would actually create more jobs than a fossil fuel–heavy future will. Other reports have included adjacent or induced jobs such as fuel transport, government oversight, and service industry. Pai concurred.

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Fossil fuels Energy Energy Africa 126

Elemental Excelerator

APRIL 21, 2023

Elemental Excelerator, a nonprofit investor driving climate technology for social change, announced today the expansion of its climate coaching team to encompass experts in project and carbon finance, policy and equity and access. “Prior to participation in Elemental, CarbonCure did not have a defined public policy strategy.

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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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Africa Agriculture Health Investment 95

GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 1, 2019

Scaling Solar created a library of standardized contracts for industry and government speeding up the development process and offering investors familiar and comfortable conditions. The remaining five, Morocco, Philippines, South Africa, Sri Lanka and Turkey have a combined potential of 164 gigawatts.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

These family-owned and often impoverished producers each manage only a few hectares of land, but they provide a third of the world’s food and up to 80 percent of food in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. In other words, even when tech-based policies are designed with smallholders in mind, their real, basic needs are rarely met.

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Energy Monitor COP Climate change Agriculture 88

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. In emerging markets where gas prices are regulated, governments passed large tariff increases onto major consumers to partially fund the cost of supplying protected retail customers.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2021

Government-backed climate risk research programme REACH highlights social impacts of water insecurity and climate change. However, Charles argued that "local policies and local investments can make a crucial difference". "It

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

Governments, multilateral banks, and philanthropic organisations will today join forces to launch a major new initiative to accelerate the flow of finance into green energy projects in emerging and developing economies around the world.

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Africa Energy Energy Asia 88

Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to the CCUS and hydrogen: 5 things to look for in 2022 report, 2021 saw these markets characterised by announcements of new projects, policies and investments under efforts by governments and companies to achieve net zero targets. Projects in 2021 focused on technology advancements and infrastructure preparations.

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Hydrogen Africa Policy Investment 52

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

From Amsterdam, Gellert oversaw the company in Europe, Africa and the Middle East for nearly six years, working before that at outdoor gear maker Black Diamond. Chantelle Ludski is serving as the North America and Asia Pacific COO for the Anthesis Group sustainability consultancy. Environmental Protection Agency as a branch chief.

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Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Startups 357

The City Fix

MARCH 22, 2022

We’ve seen increasing efforts to expand electric mobility, as governments formulate policies to stimulate adoption. As the pandemic has changed the way we get around and purchase goods, the world is considering how to make transport more efficient and sustainable. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Electricity Transportation Policy Government 116

Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

Government export agency says its provided record levels of sustainable investments to developing countries last year. We increased UKEF's capacity to support overseas projects in over 100 markets last year, and its financing has placed UK businesses at the heart of many important global projects as a result.".

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

Sweeping new strategy aims to place climate action at heart of UK foreign and security policy. The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead".

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Climate change Biodiversity Resilience Government 97

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

“I think we're just at the cusp of a real transformation of our startup ecosystem and seeing the cleantech startup ecosystem really blossom this year,” said Pratap Raju, founding partner of The Climate Collective Network, a non-profit focused on building the ecosystem for climate entrepreneurship in South Asia.

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The Environmental Blog

OCTOBER 31, 2022

According to a poll of 6,000 customers in North America, Europe, and Asia, 72% of respondents are already actively purchasing more environmentally friendly goods. Just think about this: According to WEP, consumers in wealthy nations squander nearly as much food annually as is produced in sub-Saharan Africa every year. Ways To Decrease.

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Waste Waste Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring 221

Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The report, Energy Transition Investment Trends 2022 , states that investments made in energy revolution solutions reached $755 billion in 2021 owing to sustainability ambitions set by governments and companies globally, as well as supporting climate action policies. increase from 2020 levels.

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Investment Energy Energy Electric vehicle 52

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Despite their importance, research on forests and livelihoods to date has mainly focused on understanding local household and community-level dynamics – identifying the links between human and natural systems at the regional and global scales is critical for future policy and action. The five trends revealed by the research are: 1.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Demand 147

Business Green

OCTOBER 19, 2022

However, it also predicts that in the long term it is countries in the Global South with significant renewable energy resources that are most likely to dominate the green hydrogen market with South Africa, Morocco, and Chile all expected to emerge as major producers.

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Building Energy Monitoring Hydrogen Investment Energy Monitor 92

AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Africa recorded significant wildlife and biodiversity loss at 66%; Asia-Pacific noted a 55% loss. “The report makes for incredibly bleak reading, and tackling this problem will require a range of bold solutions,” Alice Ravenscroft, head of policy at the Good Food Institute Europe , said in a statement.

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Business Green

MARCH 31, 2021

The report highlights how in Latin America and Southeast Asia commodity-driven deforestation was the leading cause of tree cover loss, which includes the human-caused destruction of primary forests and 'secondary' forests such as plantations and natural forests. Indonesia and Malaysia provide a bright spot in an otherwise distressing report.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

WWF calls on government to set legally-binding target to eradicate both legal and illegal deforestation from UK supply chains. Our poll shows an overwhelming majority of people in the UK want to stop the things they buy and the food they eat from causing deforestation overseas, and the UK government has a duty to respond.".

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Today, we discuss the logistics of integrating LPG for cooking into the developing world, talk a bit about government programs that are pursuing this goal, and finally discuss some success stories around the world. What are the logistics of moving LPG into a developing country in central Africa, for example? Those are the three things.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I think there’s an increasing recognition that policy measures and action targeted at production itself is going to be needed to get the kind of decline rates that we’re thinking about here,” said Steve Pye, one of the study’s authors, during a press call on Tuesday.

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2022

And are making solid progress to join the CPTPP, a trade bloc worth over £8tr in GDP and a golden gateway to the Asia-Pacific market to sell the very best of British overseas. Sustainability is at the heart of Britain's global trade policy and is one of the Department for International Trade's biggest priorities.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2021

But Moody's said it expected green bonds market to rebound this year thanks to supportive governmental policies in major economies such as the EU, US, UK, and China. North American and Asia-Pacific issues, meanwhile, accounted for 20 per cent and 19 per cent of the total green bond market respectively last year, Moody's said.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Coffey made the announcement on the sidelines of the COP15 Summit in Montreal, where she is taking part in high-level political negotiations on the terms of a new global pact that should result in a string of new targets and policies to reverse nature's decline by 2030.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

The clean power ambitions of state governments and utilities propel storage deployment in the U.S. Supportive policies, ambitious climate commitments, and the growing need for flexible resources are common drivers. Other top markets include India, Australia, Germany, the U.K. usually have more hours of storage.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Leaders have released a four-point “food and agriculture” agenda that calls for governments and industry to work together to find new solutions to climate change–driven food insecurity. It also states that it will hold regular meetings with the Australian government before the summit.

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GreenTechMedia

JULY 9, 2020

By 2030 the EU wants 40 gigawatts of electrolyzers installed within its borders and another 40 gigawatts in place in nearby countries that can export to the EU — with North Africa one possibility. The next-largest proposal, by BP, would use Australian wind and solar to export ammonia to Asia. The 4-gigawatt project , led by U.S.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Echoing the UK government's recent Dasgupta Review on the economic value of biodiversity, The Economic Case for Nature concludes that a failure to protect nature would risk a huge hit to economies worldwide, with countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia particularly exposed to host of escalating climate and nature-related risks.

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Biodiversity Policy Soil Asia 86

AGreenLiving

JANUARY 21, 2020

To mitigate the resulting plastic pollution , the Chinese government is set to enact a plastic ban, phasing out the production and use of several single-use plastic items by 2025, thanks to a detailed policy directive and timeline from the country’s National Development and Reform Commission (NDRC). and North America at 0.9%.

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Plastics Asia Recycling Recycling 28

Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

Much of the sustainability literature focuses on the Global North and on issues salient to policy makers in developed countries, such as climate change, biodiversity loss, and ozone depletion. The conference will appeal to scholars, social activists, business people, and policy makers.

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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. But bad public policy and a lack of investment have conspired to limit the march of cheap clean energy in most of the region. That dilemma is only exacerbated by international development investment policies.

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