Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 1, 2020

24: Solar financing for frontline health clinics in Africa and Asia. The post The Brief: Solar financing for frontline health clinics, biodiversity urgency, India’s digital health boom, greening freight, racial justice algorithms (video) appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact! The World Bank’s Raihan.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

UK aid from the Biodiverse Landscapes Fund earmarked for six projects in fragile ecosystems around the world. Our Biodiverse Landscapes Fund will invest in six of the most environmentally critical landscapes, spanning 18 countries across the globe, to help to combat climate change and protect rare and endangered species.".

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2021

Dedicated to the advanced study, research and documentation of Africa and the African diaspora in the Arab world, the Africa Institute in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates recently commissioned Adjaye Associates to design a new 343,175-square-foot campus. The campus is scheduled for completion by 2023.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the Seychelles archipelago in East Africa, flooding and erosion caused by rising sea levels pose an imminent threat to the country’s many low-lying islands. At the same time its mangrove forests, which serve as a vital buffer against these.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

He said careful planning of future forest projects could boost the biodiversity of species, carbon sinks, economic development and people’s livelihoods. Professor Marshall is also principal investigator of FoRCE (Forest Restoration and Climate Experiment) and founding director of Reforest Africa.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The letter notes that the projects pose immense environmental risks and impacts to biodiversity in Uganda. The post Human Rights and Environmental Organisations Demand The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation Reconsider Supporting ‘Risky’ Major East Africa Oil Project appeared first on DeSmog.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The 2020 Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) will take place on October 5, 2020 in Kunming, Yunnan, China. It is also anticipated that the final decision on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework will be taken, together with decisions on related topics including capacity building and resource mobilization.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

APRIL 1, 2024

However, whether in Europe, Southeast Asia or Africa – coastal ecosystems are threatened worldwide due to anthropogenic sustainability crises such as the climate crises or pollution. Source: Pixabay Coasts provide special habitats for a wide variety of life forms. … Continue reading →

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The study concludes that natural regeneration is a low-cost, nature-based solution for climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and ecosystem restoration. By using such a mix of approaches we can create more natural, biodiverse, and resilient landscapes.”. Forest traits.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Start-ups and innovators aiming to deploy technologies that can enhance farmers’ resilience to water, climate, and biodiversity impacts invited to apply for funding. Innovators, companies, and start-ups have been invited by the multinational drinks brand to apply for seed funding to develop their technologies before 7 October.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2020

New benchmark shows that biodiversity is in fashion Liesl Truscott Thu, 12/03/2020 – 01:00 This week, in advance of World Soil Day — Dec. 5 — the Textile Exchange Corporate Fiber and Materials Benchmark (CFMB) Program is launching a new tool to help the fashion and textile industry take urgent action on biodiversity.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

Use of the system in Tanzania, East Africa has already resulted in the arrest of poachers. RESOLVE’s Biodiversity and Wildlife team have developed an innovative end-to-end anti-poaching system; TrailGuard AI. Intel played a critical role in development, providing engineering expertise and other in-kind support.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2022

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : Across the globe, human-induced pressures are in large part causing losses in biodiversity. Protected areas (PAs) are key conservation tools, but in the face of biodiversity loss their ecological effectiveness is increasingly contested.

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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

When you talk about biodiversity and conservation, there is no value," said prominent Brazilian chef Alex Atala, who runs the world-renowned restaurant D.O.M. When you taste biodiversity, there’s a new meaning and new value." . An unintended impact of urbanization in South Africa is shifting relationships with food.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Africa recorded significant wildlife and biodiversity loss at 66%; Asia-Pacific noted a 55% loss. Links between food systems, forests and biodiversity. The way we produce our food is a big reason for this as well as overall biodiversity loss. Ravenscroft said animal agriculture is the biggest driver of deforestation.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The problem, according to the researchers of the study, is that when they measured the geographic distribution of insect populations using global biodiversity data and maps of protected areas, they found that 76 percent of insect species were inadequately covered, and more than 1,800 species not covered at all.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 7, 2022

Microsoft has unveiled a fresh wave of expanded efforts to harness better data and AI to boost climate resilience and adaptation efforts in Africa, in a bid to address what the tech giant described as a "significant lack" of reliable climate data in the Global South.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Catherine Nakalembe to discuss how satellite data can provide critical insights for food production and management in Africa. These outputs can now support innovative and bespoke climate-resilient policy solutions for a variety of regions in Africa. .

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2023

Investors have a responsibility to ensure future generations are left with a planet rich in biodiversity, argues ShareAction's Eve Gleeson The emeritus defender of our planet and its species, Sir David Attenborough, has returned to our screens in recent weeks to talk about the wonders of British wildlife.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 8, 2020

IMARA – IMARA combines ground truth and satellite data to boost land restoration projects to work towards a more sustainable, biodiverse and better balanced world. Geo Gecko – Geo Gecko is an Ugandan company that remotely monitors how Africa changes to enhance decision-making.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 7, 2022

The launch of the UN biodiversity talks in Montreal this week has prompted yet another report that attempts to put a financial value on the services nature provides to the global economy. A new report has pinned the overall value of nature markets at a huge $10tr - but will it cut through with decision makers at COP15?

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Business Green

DECEMBER 15, 2022

The question of how to finance nature goals has dominated the UN biodiversity talks, which are expected to culminate in a new strategic plan, or post-2020 Global Biodiversity Framework, for how countries can work together to stop the alarming decline of nature around the world. the letter states.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Corporate investment in carbon offsets is helping to fund a project in West Africa that is delivering on multiple Sustainable Development Goals through its protection of precious forest habitats and its services for local communities. The Upper Guinean Forest of West Africa is one of only three forested biodiversity hotspots in Africa.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 10, 2021

This nine-month climate-biodiversity season kicks off with the opening of Biodiversity COP15 from 11th October, moves to the COP26 climate summit later in the month and completes with the second part of COP15 in May 2022. The same process is now starting for biodiversity. per cent and 6.5 per cent respectively.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Overall, twenty-six biodiversity projects will enhance, restore and create more than 1,700 acres (690 hectares) of woodlands, grasslands, peatlands and wetlands across every region of England. These birds are summer visitors to the UK and winter in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Water shortages and a decline in pollinators will affect agricultural production levels, trade, and food prices across Eastern and Western Africa, central Asia and parts of South America, the study predicts. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 14, 2023

Here are just some of the examples: Supporting Transformational Change in Africa Representatives from Rock Geospatial LLC and the United Nations World Food Programme shared how Planet satellite data, in addition to the empowerment of young adults in sub-saharan Africa, is transforming rural poverty and food insecurity.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

From ants to beetle larvae — eaten by tribes in Africa and Australia as part of their subsistence diets — to the popular, crispy-fried locusts and beetles enjoyed in Thailand, it is estimated that insect-eating is practiced regularly by at least 2 billion people worldwide,” FAO said. “I

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead". In 2021 and beyond, Her Majesty's Government will make tackling climate change and biodiversity loss its number one international priority," Johnson wrote in the foreword to the report.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 10, 2021

Apart from mitigating deforestation’s side effects, it also helps restore and retain the forest’s original biodiversity. Compared to planting new trees, it performs way better in terms of biodiversity , climate change mitigation and recovering nutrients,” said Poorter.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

New golf course developments in Asia, the Middle East and Africa are incorporating sustainability into the design and implementation phases of their projects. Particularly, Laguna L?ng These things are absolutely vital to the health and wellbeing of future generations, so we all need to do our best to make things better.".

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

In Africa, every increase of 100,000 animals in the Serengeti raises the amount of carbon sequestered by 15 percent. Convention on Biodiversity, and they don’t talk to each other,” he said. One is trying to save biodiversity, and the other is trying to save the climate.

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Business Green

JULY 1, 2020

More than 70 per cent of large-scale farmers in the US, France, China, Brazil, India and across much of Africa harbour significant concerns about the impact of climate change on their crops and business over the next five years, the findings of a major new Ipsos Mori poll have shown.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

Thandile Chinyavanhu, Greenpeace climate and energy campaigner in South Africa, hailed the achievement as a "testament to the world's ability to achieve a common goal - together". Africa's governments must give no more excuses for the fossil fuel industry.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Urgent action is needed to shift food and agriculture from a driver of climate change and biodiversity loss to a solution, with positive outcomes for producers, companies and consumers. We cannot choose between food security and environmental sustainability – they are one and the same. The good news?

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