The Environmental Blog

FEBRUARY 7, 2021

When we are bombarded with negative news and potential threats regularly, it can take a toll on our well-being and overall happiness. Reduced Carbon Footprint. Our individual carbon footprints are extreme compared to those of our ancestors. In our modern world, there are many different existential threats.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

Ahead of tomorrow's Net Zero Festival, Toby Hill explores how carbon offset standards are evolving in a bid to assure clients and campaigners that promised carbon savings can be delivered. To find out more about the role of carbon offsets in the net zero transition, sign up now for a free pass to tomorrow's Net Zero Festival.

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GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 4, 2020

The human dimension of waste collection: Bharati Chaturvedi, founder and director of the Chintan Environmental Research and Action Group in India, and Kieran Smith, co-founder and CEO of Mr. Green Africa, discuss why informal collectors of plastics and recyclables should embrace within formal supply chains — and how to do it.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The first has to do with the carbon budget — the amount of carbon that can be emitted before the planet warms more than 1.5 The paper uses a carbon budget of 580 billion metric tons, an amount that is estimated to give only a 50 percent chance of stabilizing the global climate at 1.5 degrees C above preindustrial temperatures.

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Business Green

JUNE 9, 2021

Energy company says carbon capture technology partnership is first of its kind in the UK. Drax Group has announced it is to work with Japanese engineering giant Mitsubishi Heavy Industries (MHI) on the development of its proposed bioenergy with carbon capture and storage (BECCS) facility at its Yorkshire power plant.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Carbon-free “green” hydrogen is produced using electrolyzers to split water molecules to separate the hydrogen from the oxygen. This is where grid operators shut down access to the grid or adopt pricing mechanisms to generate negative pricing to reduce production. Making hydrogen competitive. The result is curtailment.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

I was testing what financing owners of small and medium businesses need in Africa; I talked to so many and did a lot of market research interviews, and it kept coming down to energy,” she says. gigatons of carbon by 2050 (through supporting the use of renewables) and can sequester 2.2 megatons of carbon in the same period.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2021

Thanks for reading, and keep crushing that carbon. ~ Another change of pace from Big Oil in the coming years, especially from the national oil companies, would go a long way to meeting the carbon limits set out in the Paris Agreement. Find me on Twitter @jk_parnell if you want to say hi. It’s 2007. By the end of 2007, the U.K.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Our science track demonstrated the robust research applications for Planet’s datasets, highlighting key findings in climate change and carbon farming initiatives. Catherine Nakalembe to discuss how satellite data can provide critical insights for food production and management in Africa. All Rights Reserved.

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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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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 3, 2020

Such an approach focuses on maximizing positive and minimizing negative aspects of nature-based adaptation strategies and options. In South Africa, she explains, Sappi owns and leases 964,000 acres of land, of which about a third is managed for biodiversity conservation. Biodiversity conservation is a central pillar of land management.

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Business Green

JULY 24, 2020

UK, Germany, South Korea among nations offering up green stimulus measures but these are still dwarfed by carbon-intensive bailouts, according to Vivid Economics. Across 17 major economies, announced stimulus packages will pump trillions of dollars directly into sectors that have a large and lasting negative impact on nature.".

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Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

One such critical tipping point is the potential transformation of the world’s largest tropical forests from carbon sinks into net sources of carbon emissions. Currently, carbon emissions that result from deforestation and forest degradation (often referred to as land-use change) are offset, in part, by new reforestation and regrowth.

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Business Green

JULY 23, 2020

First, it must understand the labour market impacts of decommissioning fossil fuel power plants and reskilling workers to build and manage the new low-carbon economy. Second, it must also engage with the social impacts of new low-carbon energy systems and infrastructures, with an emphasis on equity and justice concerns.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 26, 2022

On the southern coast of Africa, local community groups and environmental activists have been celebrating a significant legal victory over a major oil player. Dolphins and sharks are just two other marine species that could be negatively affected by seismic surveys through behavioral changes to get away from the noise.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

It said it will take action to slash its emissions and neutralise any remaining emissions with "additional, quantifiable, real, permanent, and socially beneficial offsets" in order to achieve net zero annual carbon emissions by 2040, which is 10 years ahead of the Paris Agreement targets of 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It emphasises the urgency of action to curb global carbon emissions, coupled with an adaptive approach to the management of our ocean resources in order to tackle an expected rise in socioeconomic inequities. Even if action is taken to cut carbon emissions, the industry is still expected to suffer economic losses of up to 66%.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Near-term commitments include 6 GW of clean energy in India alongside considerations for wind and solar in Africa and rural electrification in Latin America.     🌱 Vizcab , a Lyon, France-based carbon impact analysis software developer, raised $6M in Series A funding from Kompas Ventures and Cemex Ventures.  

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 6, 2022

to a carbon free economy by 2050, experts at Bloomberg and Princeton estimate that the US will have to build enough solar and wind farms to fill an area roughly five times the size of South Dakota. According to the African Development Bank, Africa has received less than 5.5% For example, to fully transition the U.S.

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Planet Pulse

NOVEMBER 6, 2023

Yet these indigenous communities and their ancestral lands are under intense deforestation pressure and subject to a host of negative impacts of forest loss. Increasing REDD+ capacity in Africa: NICFI-Planet data has been used for Cameroon and by Mozambique for MRV on REDD+ programs. 89% of Guyana’s forests, which sequester 8.9

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 13, 2021

This transition, however, will impact jobs in fossil fuel-based energy production and could, if not considered from a social perspective, negatively impact millions of individuals in emerging economy nations. Emerging economy countries face the undeniably huge task to transition their economies to be cleaner and more sustainable.

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Grist

AUGUST 3, 2021

Other research groups before the Malaysia team have shown that the solar-powered and carbon-neutral metal extraction process works in practice — a key step to winning over mining industry investors, who have insisted on field trials of several acres to show proof of principle. Department of Agriculture named Rufus L. metric tons (3.12

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. Just seven percent are based in Africa.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

The negative trend reflects a shift in investor sentiment due to the food, fuel and finance crises around the world, the Ukraine war, rising inflation and interest rates and fears of a coming recession," the report said. Latin American and the Caribbean and Africa had 150 and 100 projects, respectively.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The investigation assessed the employment history and affiliations of 565 bank directors from the boards of major retail banks in the UK, US, Canada, Europe, South Africa, China and Japan. Banks are increasingly saying they will decarbonise by 2050, yet a large number continue to finance fossil fuels, the primary source of carbon emissions.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

High natural gas prices negatively affected demand from industrial consumers, who either switched to alternative fuels or reduced output in the last few months of 2021. Norway’s pipeline deliveries to the rest of the continent rose by 5% y-o-y, while pipeline imports from North Africa increased by a whopping 50% in 2021 compared to 2020.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

And that’s a complete waste, it just adds carbon to the atmosphere for no benefit and you’re not getting the benefits of a clean energy. You can argue that carbon dioxide actually is not dirty. Carbon dioxide causes climate change, but in itself, it’s not dirty. How would you address such concerns?

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

These are likely to have major consequences – both positively and negatively – over the coming decade, says the group. They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. Around the world, 1.6

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 3, 2021

The remaining 20 percent represents investments outside of fossil fuels, in areas such as renewables, carbon capture and storage, and research into new green technologies. . It also had the highest share of posts on carbon capture and storage technologies, with these making up one in five of the promos put out by the company.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

In mid-December, Vietnam will reveal its just energy transition partnership using public money to leverage private investment, following on from South Africa and Indonesia, and with a cab rank of other countries wanting something similar. That requires more and better diplomacy, not less. The relationship with India is critical.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

One of the most striking conclusions in our report is that we’re seeing adverse impacts being much more widespread and being much more negative than expected in prior reports within the current 1.09 Climate change is no longer a future prospect; it’s making people sick right now. degrees are diseases emerging into new areas.”.

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Green Business Bureau

JULY 15, 2022

“Sustainable manufacturing is the creation of manufactured products through economically-sound processes that minimize negative environmental impacts while conserving energy and natural resources. Most of this energy is produced by the burning of fossil fuels which releases a mass amount of carbon dioxide into the environment.

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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

AUGUST 7, 2022

The argument goes that biofuels produced using sustainable feedstocks and low carbon processes can enable rapid emissions reductions in the short to medium-term, because they seamlessly integrate with existing fossil fuel infrastructure and can be mixed with existing gasoline, diesel, or kerosene. Regulatory and industry momentum.

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Green Tech Challenge

JULY 10, 2019

Ocean acidification has negative effects on sea-life and the ecosystem. Aquaculture and Ocean Acidification When mixed with seawater, carbon dioxide produces an acid which corrodes calcium, making shell formation and bone growth particularly difficult. The ocean has experienced a 26% pH drop in the last century.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

warming will disproportionately negatively impact disadvantaged and vulnerable populations. This is an issue of justice, so together with our fans and Fairtrade we call on world leaders to take urgent action," said Cheryl Pinto, global values led sourcing manager at pledge signatory Ben & Jerry's. Earlier this week, 1.8

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Business Green

AUGUST 9, 2021

As underscored by recent flooding, heatwaves, and wildfires across parts of North America, Europe, Asia and Africa, the report makes clear that climate change is accelerating and intensifying across every region of the planet. Natural carbon sinks become less effective as emissions rise. by the 2100.

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