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. · Citizens in three of the four biggest polluting countries have a low level of concern – China, India, and Russia. ·

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2021

Urgent steps to reduce the risks of water pollution, flooding, and drought are needed right across the world as part of broader measures to increase climate resilience, a major new University of Oxford-led research project has warned. However, Charles argued that "local policies and local investments can make a crucial difference".

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

million people die as a result of air pollution every year, but governments are still spending more supporting fossil fuel projects than they are tackling dirty air. Projects tackling air pollution receive less than one per cent of global aid spending, a new report from Clean Air Fund has revealed.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

UpEnergy said the emissions reductions were delivered through a new project in sub-Saharan Africa which it launched to replace traditional biomass burning stoves with electric stoves developed by climate tech start-up PowerUP. According to the World Health Organisation, fou million people a year die as a result of indoor air pollution.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Insects fared better in the Amazonian region, Africa, Western Australia, and Eastern and Central Europe, while achieving less protected area coverage in North America and South and Southeast Asia. Human health and food security is intrinsically tied to the health of insect populations.

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The City Fix

APRIL 4, 2024

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

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Resilience Africa Climate change Sea level rise 49

Front And Centered

FEBRUARY 5, 2019

But we know that in our communities, health and well-being varies significantly according to who you are and where you live. People across Washington suffering worst from pollution — often low-income people, communities of color and linguistically isolated people — pay with their well-being and shortened lives.

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The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Vast amounts of valuable energy, agricultural nutrients, and water could potentially be recovered from the world’s fast-rising volume of municipal wastewater, according to a new study by UN University’s Canadian-based Institute for Water, Environment and Health (UNU-INWEH). North America’s 295 million.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The spokesperson added that food production must increase by 70 percent to keep pace with population growth, and complained that the common narrative on livestock was dictated by “simplistic negative conclusions of livestock’s role within rising global temperatures, nature decline and decreasing human health”.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In Part I of my interview with James Rockall, the CEO of the World LPG Association , we discussed the major global problems associated with indoor air pollution caused predominantly by cooking. What are the logistics of moving LPG into a developing country in central Africa, for example? In Asia, it was just over 6%.

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Business Green

MARCH 23, 2020

"By prominently marketing farmed seafood like salmon and prawns which are fed on wild fish and crustaceans, retailers are promoting an extractive industry which is threatening the long-term health of our oceans.".

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

A slew of initiatives designed to accelerate the electric vehicle (EVs) transition in emerging and developing markets has been launched this morning by the UK, as fresh figures have highlighted the transition away from polluting cars and trucks is occurring at drastically different rates around the world. per cent of existing oil demand.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

The team developed a solar-powered device that can be used in any source of water to produce green hydrogen fuel and clean drinking water, even if the original source was salty or polluted. According to the World Health Organization, nearly 1.8 Sources: World Health Organization University of Cambridge Research News

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Solar Power Hydrogen Asia Health 91

Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

Rwanda has become the first country in Africa to ramp up its national greenhouse gas reduction targets as part of its Paris Agreement commitments, yesterday submitting its plan to slash emissions by at least 16 per cent by 2030 compared with a business-as-usual baseline. Rwanda ramps up Paris Agreement pledge.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Sports also carries perceptions and feelings of vigor, health, and youth, he says, one reason why the tobacco industry was also so keen to sponsor sports. Rafalowicz’s campaign advocates with city and local councils around the world to phase out fossil fuel advertising and sponsorships.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The past year registered record-shattering global temperatures. People around the world are already witnessing epic heat waves, wildfires and drought at 1.1 degrees C (2 degrees F) of global warming, compared to pre-industrial averages. With current policies putting the world on.

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Global warming Policy Cooling Climate change 75

Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

Dozens of countries have said they will not back any global pact on nature and its various provisions around pollution and nature protection without agreement on a new international financing commitment. As such, it is impossible to underestimate the importance of money to the Montreal talks.

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Business Green

JUNE 6, 2022

"Short-lived" items such as packaging, low-cost products and textiles are expected to make up two thirds of plastic waste by 2060, the analysis warns, with the increase in waste levels set to be fastest in developing and emerging countries in Africa and Asia that lack significant recycling capacity.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The latter think tank has warned that Africa in particular is at risk of tying its long term economic fortunes to fossil gas in response to European nations' rush to secure new short-term supplies to end their reliance on Russian exports.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Such impacts "are causing severe and widespread disruption in nature and in society; reducing our ability to grow nutritious food or provide enough clean drinking water, thus affecting people's health and well-being and damaging livelihoods" it adds. "In The threats and impacts are myriad, interlinked, and deeply worrying.

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Resilience Climate change Africa Sea level rise 49

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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

But it’s also made social equity a centerpiece of its efforts, from made-in-America pledges to boost jobs to commitments to focus investments in low-income and minority communities suffering the most health and economic damage from industrial pollution and global warming. The Washington D.C.-based

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Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 130

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. Other countries had pledges, we had a plan.

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Energy Energy Packaging Investment 73

Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Health CLIMATE IMPACTS Disposable City: Miami’s Future on the Shores of Climate Catastrophe by Mario Alejandro Ariza, 2020 A deeply reported personal investigation by a Miami journalist examines the present and future effects of climate change in the Magic City -- a watery harbinger for coastal cities worldwide. Climate impacts 2.

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Climate change Ethics Sustainability Health 95

Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere. The facts are undeniable.

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Climate change Global warming Resilience Sea level rise 68

Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2020

Moreover, key emerging markets, such as India, China, much of South East Asia, and most of Africa, spend huge sums on oil imports every year, providing their governments with a clear economic and strategic incentive to curb their oil dependence. Oil imports cost 1.5 per cent of China's GDP and 2.6

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Transportation Demand Government Carbon 72

Green Market Oracle

OCTOBER 9, 2019

They spend your money to buy a seat at the UN Security Council, and also, they are giving your money to other countries to fight climate change in Asia and build roads in Africa. You know, you talk often about how Conservatives cut taxes for the wealthy and cut education and health care and other services.

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Climate change Pollution Carbon-neutral Fossil fuels 45

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 8, 2024

The EAT-Lancet commission recommends stabilising or increasing animal protein in diets in only two regions in the world: sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia, and decreasing it in other regions.

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Agriculture COP Methane Climate change 136

GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. "I Serving as a United States Marine in the Asia Pacific region, Briana Buckles often witnessed extreme poverty. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health. Zack Angelini, 29. Elsa Wenzel. Briana Buckles, 29.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring 528

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

All the top green business news from around the world this week, including fresh WHO air pollution guidelines and global coal, methane and HFC commitments. World Health Organisation unveils tighter air pollution guidelines. UN energy summit sees $400bn new backing committed to clean energy.

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Energy Energy Methane Africa 49

AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Zack Angelini, 29 Senior Environmental Stewardship Manager, Timberland; Malden, Massachusetts LinkedIn Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. Essentially, sustainable fashion meets women’s health. Our consumers are not only asking for it, but expecting it.”

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

In the UK, petrol and diesel already contain up to 7 per cent biofuels but, given growing concerns about climate change and air pollution, governments are expected to enact stricter fuel standards. So any attempt to reduce our oil habit hinges on this sector. She even leads an environmental organisation called Global Optimism).

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Fossil fuels 78

Business Green

APRIL 17, 2020

French President Emmanuel Macron has predicted the coronavirus crisis will ignite more concerted action to tackle climate risks and air pollution, arguing that people will not accept going back to breathing dirty air. Well, climate risk seems very far away because it affects Africa and the Pacific.

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