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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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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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. Somehow living has become a political issue,” she said. She wondered if there could be a biological mechanism at work.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. 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. Who's news. On the move.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

Faster innovation, stronger incentives for investment, larger economies of scale, level playing fields where they are needed. This is vital to give steel and cement makers, plus their financial backers, the confidence to invest the huge sums required to develop low-carbon production facilities.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

Strong income reductions are projected for the majority of regions, including North America and Europe, with South Asia and Africa being most strongly affected," said PIK scientist and co-author of the study, Maximilian Kotz. Such outcomes would trigger huge geo-political risks that could impact the entire global economy.

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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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Business Green

JANUARY 27, 2021

The drive to power the world with clean energy picked up steam through 2020, despite the multiple challenges posed by disease, recession, and political instability, new research published yesterday by BloombergNEF (BNEF) has revealed. Away from the Americas, other corporate procurement markets picked up markedly.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

MAY 21, 2021

They also continue to be in high demand as the global population grows, emerging economies develop, and infrastructure investment accelerates. She has been involved in oil, gas and mining projects and businesses in Africa, Asia, the Middle East and the Americas.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

Meanwhile, in the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Asia, gas production could increase into the 2030s to help those economies grow before peaking. But that also means the results are based on an idealized world free of politics. The industry is a key source of jobs and revenue for local economies there. “If

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 22, 2023

In Liberia, over 60 youth organizations collaborated to create a collective position on the nation’s climate goals, urging political leaders to act. Despite the despair, youth groups have embraced their awareness of these implications and fostered progress through intergenerational unity.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Because finance and investment are the lifeblood of net zero projects - and we can only meet this challenge together. I know the role finance can play in delivering this change, having worked in corporate finance myself for over 15 years before I came into politics. Experience working in the private sector.

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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. He holds a degree in Urban Planning and another in Political Science from the University of California Los Angeles. She focused on early-stage investments and supporting portfolio companies.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

APRIL 20, 2021

We started in California and have expanded operations into China, India, Southeast Asia, and East Africa. Since 2004, New Energy Nexus (formerly known as California Clean Energy Fund) has leveraged billions in investment, invested in 100s of clean energy enterprises, and launched industry leading centers for solution collaboration.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Australia and the US are the second and third largest beef exporters globally, and their governments have a strong economic interest in supporting the growth of these industries, which enjoy close political ties. Just seven percent are based in Africa. Scoones explains that this can lead to unhelpful discussions.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 8, 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. In other words, there are now more people employed in clean energy jobs worldwide than in fossil fuels.

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Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

Thanks to their work, companies of all sizes may be able invest in ocean sequestration. For example, Shopify invested in Running Tide, a company that will build kelp-growing platforms in ocean current systems. ESG is also focusing on human rights. Driving this shift includes internationally recognized standards, such as the U.N.’s

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Last year we saw devastating floods across Asia and Europe. Indeed, in one of its recent reports, Chatham House makes the case that such factors could, ultimately, displace people, disrupt markets, undermine political stability, and exacerbate conflict. Sustainable investments have now reached 4 trillion dollars.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

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 It just shows that this UN process can achieve results, and that the world can recognise the plight of the vulnerable must not be treated as a political football.".

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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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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. 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. She’s a former VP and ESG analyst at State Street.

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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. Even without political barriers, it’s a costly, destabilizing experience.

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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

The terrifying information and dire warnings it contains are a lot to take in, but crucially the report also sets out potential political, financial, and practical solutions for enabling climate resilient development, which it argues are both cost effective and urgently needed. Supporting and investing in nature is critical.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 25, 2021

For instance, if a woman is displaced from her home due to political violence and settles somewhere else, where she is displaced by a weather disaster , two displacements are recorded. This issue affected East Asia and the Pacific region the most, with about 30.3% ” This is the highest annual figure in 10 years.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Boris Johnson to tell Climate Leaders Summit the question of how to reach net zero emissions is 'not so much technical as political'. The UK has shown that it's possible to slash emissions while growing the economy, which makes question of reaching net zero not so much technical as political," he will say. "If

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Anthropogenic climate change is at once evident and escalating, transforming natural, economic and socio-political environments. The UN reports that temperature increases in the Sahel region of Africa will be 1.5 times higher than the global average. In turn, the high north is facing an unprecedented process of militarisation.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

As such, the UK government is said to be working on plans for a new multibillion-pound green development bank that could both directly fund low carbon infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa, and South America, and underwrite private investment.

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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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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. The skills developed in analyzing non-recourse cash flow-based finance are applicable not only to green energy, but also apply more widely in project finance and infrastructure investing. Falling sea levels allowed our passage across the Bering Sea.

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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. We need the kind of leadership that lifts people up, that doesn’t make people feel as if politics is rather disgusting and they’d rather not look at it.

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Renewable Energy World

JUNE 8, 2021

Tracking SDG7: The Energy Progress Report says that during the past decade, a greater share of the global population gained access to electricity than ever before, but the number of people without electricity in Sub-Saharan Africa increased. Globally, the number of people without access to electricity declined from 1.2

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

It gives the key political signals that indicate the phasedown of all fossil fuels is happening. "We Clearly this will not be enough, but it is a much-needed political signal to rebuild broken trust. Simon Stiell, executive director at the UNFCCC, said: "This outcome moves us forward. We have a series of milestones ahead.

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Grist

JULY 23, 2020

The COVID-19 pandemic — with its partisan infighting over masks and economic and political meltdown — feels like a bad dream. So we know that it’s possible — but we haven’t really invested at all.”. Imagine that it’s 2035. With the help of a vaccine, the world finally escaped the novel coronavirus.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2022

As Europe has pivoted away from Russian oil and seeks gas deals across the world, it has displaced supply for others and attracted cries of hypocrisy from across Africa as it has sought gas for itself but won't support gas for development for others. Many new LNG terminals talked about in a gas response to the supply shock may never be built.

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