DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2021

Community-based groups and civil society organisations in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are urging multinational oil companies to keep off a new biodiversity-rich oil exploration block opened in Western Uganda’s region. . They noted: “We are worried over the environmental destruction that follows oil activities in Africa.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 6, 2024

Egypt’s Geographic Advantages in Green Hydrogen Development Egypt’s Strategic Location Egypt stands at the crossroads of Africa and the Middle East, bordering the Mediterranean and the Red Seas. This strategic positioning is key in the development and export of green hydrogen. billion green hydrogen project in Egypt.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

In either case, this wasn’t on our bingo card… In the news, the British government passed new reforms to speed up interconnection, Colombia launched a $1B biodiversity fund, the US released $6B in funding for climate resiliency, and the US and China made modest progress on methane reduction at APEC.  Or a red herring?

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

Still, the company is stepping out as an innovator in sustainable finance — it was the first buyer into a new reef credits system in Australia , and Herweijer’s innovation lens and ongoing research into risks associated with nature and biodiversity loss no doubt helped land her new job. . Sustainable Development Goal 7. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

Both the fields of solar panels Conservative leadership hopeful Liz Truss apparently loathes, and the fields of gambolling lambs she idolises are very much human constructs. By avoiding pesticides and encouraging natural predators, it also helps to encourage biodiversity and wildlife on the farm. The outlook is certainly worrying.

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The City Fix

JANUARY 24, 2024

Last year shattered global heat records. The world witnessed the effects of rising temperatures in the form of devastating wildfires, severe flooding, extreme heatwaves and more. Poor countries and communities who have contributed the least to causing the climate crisis.

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Business Green

APRIL 2, 2020

It's worth noting that we still have little idea of how Covid-19 will impact the world's poorest countries, in sub-Sarahan Africa and South Asia. If Joe Biden wins, that would allow his incoming administration to play a constructive role, which would substantively change the tenor of the talks. So what happens now? Not that long away.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2022

Italy has become the latest government to strengthen its legislative framework to better protect the environment, with the passage of a new constitutional law that places a formal requirement on the state to safeguard the environment, biodiversity, and ecosystems and act "in the interest of future generations".

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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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GreenBiz

JUNE 22, 2020

She’s an advocate of " Absolute Sustainability, " a Quantis philosophy that challenges businesses to take planetary boundaries into account not just for carbon emissions but also for biodiversity, land use, freshwater consumption, the phosphorus cycle and the nitrogen cycle. . Africa counts more entrepreneurs than any other continent.

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2020

Climate changes triggered the first human migrations out of Africa. In 2015, Cáceres won the Goldman Prize, the world’s most prestigious environmental award, for leading a campaign to stop construction of an internationally funded hydroelectric dam on a river sacred to her Lenca people. When they want to kill me, they will do it.’

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Mr. Sustainability

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Though I still fundamentally believe biomass is better than regular fossil fuels, biodiversity and human rights issues are serious challenges when it comes to the production of biomass. This includes heating and cooking as well as oil used for construction vehicles and industrial processes.

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