DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Salmon might seem like a good alternative to meat, in a world that needs to shift away from carbon-intensive cattle — at least the fish farming industry would have you see it that way. Carbon Capture and Storage. Below, a handful of DeSmog writers dive into the issues they’ll be watching in 2023. Aquaculture. Next year you will.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Business Secretary pushes green finance agenda as he unveils £12m climate fund to support projects Africa, Asia and South America. And we want to do that in partnership with business and finance.".

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Over the past several years, it has sped up enlarging its international business layout, and its current scope of business involves in North America, South America, Australia, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Read more from Shenzhen CLOU.

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Green Market Oracle

JUNE 29, 2020

C per decade due mostly to greenhouse gases like carbon dioxide (CO2) generated by the burning fossil fuels. Siberia, central and northwest Africa, western Australia and Mexico all saw a warmer-than-usual April, as did the Arctic Ocean and the coast of Alaska. Since the 1970s global temperatures have risen an average of 0.2 °C

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Emissions of nitrous oxide (N2O) - a greenhouse gas 300 times more potent than carbon dioxide - have risen by 20 per cent from pre-industrial levels, with agriculture responsible for the lion's share of the increase, researchers from Auburn University in Alabama found.

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Grist

AUGUST 28, 2023

The Amazon rainforest was once one of the world’s most powerful carbon sinks, largely a result of its uniquely dense tree cover. The Amazon was even a net carbon emitter for the first time in 2021.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 8, 2024

From the rising demand for heat in Europe to power generation ventures in Indonesia, East Africa, or Central America, we feel well positioned to offer support with our diverse portfolio and global footprint. We are also supporting emerging opportunities in Central and South America and East Africa.

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Terra Infirma

JUNE 19, 2023

No one wants to confirm it’s Africa, Asia & South America that’s the real problem! Ah, but many environmentalists cry, wasn’t the carbon footprint invented by BP to shift blame from the oil sector to individuals? Find a way for people to have an experience.

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Business Green

MARCH 18, 2022

Bankers without Boundaries and the reforestation company Terraformation team up to try and catalyse investment in natural carbon sinks. The existing classes of capital, like all RFPs for carbon credits, all those billions of dollars of green bonds, they're just not well suited to start a forest.". Forests need angel investors.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

A new atlas published on 26 May shows that 54 per cent of the world’s land surface consists of vast tracts of land covered by grass, shrubs or sparse, hardy vegetation that support millions of pastoralists, hunter gatherers, ranchers and large populations of wildlife – and store large amounts of carbon.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Trade group GCCA touts vision of a zero carbon global economy 'literally built with green concrete'. I envision a world in the not too distant future where the foundation of a sustainable, zero carbon global economy will literally be built with green concrete," he said.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

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. LNG export growth in 2022 remains dominated by North America, which accounts for more than 75% of the net increase in global LNG supply.

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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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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

But while solar and wind have an obvious role to play in helping miners control their carbon emissions, the mining industry faces steep decarbonization challenges, analysts say. Cutting mining’s carbon footprint to zero is complicated by the fact that electricity use only accounts for around 40 percent of direct emissions.

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The City Fix

APRIL 27, 2023

Many people point to forest restoration as a way to curb climate change, where replanted forests sequester carbon in trees and soils. But emerging evidence shows that restoration can provide non-carbon climate benefits, too — in particular, reducing heat and regulating rainfall. Here’s what.

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Climate 4.0

MARCH 28, 2022

By having companies report their emissions – which in itself will enforce a discipline upon them to document and more closely manage their carbon profile across the scopes – investors and consumers can now witness and compare companies as they achieve progress (or not) with respect to their GHG emissions.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

The economic slowdown and travel constraints that are resulting from the coronavirus outbreak are expected to lead to lower emissions this year, but experts have warned any carbon savings will likely prove shortlived as governments seek to stimulate their economies in the coming months.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The company announced its latest green investments at New York Climate Week, confirming plans for its first project in South America in the form of a solar farm in Brazil, as well as its first solar farms in India and Poland. "We In the Asia-Pacific region, the company now has a total of 57 renewable energy projects.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2021

An inside look at pricing in the forest carbon market Wilder Person Tue, 03/02/2021 – 00:05 On June 23, Amazon commenced its $2 billion Climate Pledge Fund to further endeavors to become net-zero by 2040. Instead, carbon project developers that act as the intermediaries between the two making everything happen.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

For instance, most studies concerning the effects of climate change have been conducted in North America and Europe, leaving little to no information about Africa and South America. Mangrove forests can store four times more carbon than other tropical forests, but they are threatened by rising ocean levels.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Key impacts include loss of natural coastal and flooding protection, disappearance of natural carbon storage sinks, and steep rises in prices of key commodities. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

And protecting and preserving wild spaces such as wetlands, peatlands, and forests from human development has the two-pronged effect of sequestering carbon dioxide and preventing the spread of disease to humans by limiting contact between wild animals and people.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

These advances might not matter as much in rain-soaked Europe but in much of Africa, South America, Central and Southeast Asia they are vital to continuity of life. Through the deployment of smart electric grids, we can reduce carbon emissions from the utility industry by 25%.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

One of the biggest stories of 2020 was the rise of the corporate tree-planting movement, with dozens of multinational businesses from virtually every industry pledging millions of dollars to one of nature’s most effective carbon sequestration solutions. . Otherwise, you may address the program from the wrong angle.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Fairtrade Foundation has called on the UK government to include imported emissions that were generated overseas in the process of meeting UK consumption needs in its carbon targets, in a detailed new report published today. It also calls on the government to return to spending 0.7

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Building the first fully-deployed carbon capture storage cluster by the mid-2020s. Supporting energy intensive industries as they move to low-carbon techniques. Today, nearly half a million people across our country are employed in the low carbon economy and its supply chains. And many of them require private finance to deliver.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 15, 2023

Public transport is one of the best, most cost-effective solutions available to address today’s climate and development challenges. Buses and trains can reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions by up to two-thirds per passenger, per kilometer compared to private vehicles. The UN’s latest.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

The names of these mills - all in South America and Asia Pacific - are public and all produce oil certified by the RSPO. This requires all palm oil to come only from legal sources, and not to have been planted on land in areas of high conservation value, high carbon stock forest, or on peat lands regardless of their depth.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

According to Diego di Risio, Latin America and Caribbean manager for the Global Gas & Oil Network, “it is pretty common that fossil fuel companies fill the gap [left by] the state, especially since some of them operate in rather distant or marginal communities. “In A Sea of High-Carbon Sponsorship”. Filling in For Governments.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

billion people live in areas that are "highly vulnerable" to climate change, key ecosystems are losing their ability to store carbon, many low lying areas are facing a future of inundation, and millions of people face drastically increased risk of deadly heatwaves, floods, and droughts. As the report makes clear, between 3.3 billion and 3.6

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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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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2021

China represents more than a quarter of all global carbon emissions, and it has spent tens of billions of dollars to build coal power facilities in 152 countries over the past decade through its Belt and Road Initiative. China and the United States together represent 43% of global carbon dioxide emissions.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Renewables capacity in Europe and North America grew by 57.3GW and 29.1GW, respectively, while Africa added 2.7GW of capacity, delivering a marginal year-on-year increase. Moreover, Oceania saw 5.2GW of new capacity come online and South America continued an upward trend with 18.2GW of capacity added.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

APAC, starting with China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand as the first region; India, the Russian sub-continent as the second region; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as the third region, and then North and South America as the fourth region. We will be covering all these different aspects in the sessions.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 11, 2021

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. percent. .”

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