The City Fix

NOVEMBER 8, 2023

Meanwhile, less than 1% is generated by low-income countries in regions like sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America. Over 50% of all transport-related emissions come from high-income countries, where people are more likely to own and depend on personal vehicles. In these.

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Forbes Green Tech

NOVEMBER 7, 2019

The United Nations is reporting that prolonged droughts in southern Africa have led to food shortages, which will impact 45 million people. Climate change is a culprit.

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Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

The research relies on satellite data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, used to measure subtle changes in Earth’s stores of water, including groundwater, surface water, snow, ice, and soil moisture. So how is climate change making the world both drier and wetter at the same time?

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 28, 2022

Energy Web and ENGIE Energy Access are launching ‘Crowdfund for Solar’ to fund clean energy projects in sub-Saharan Africa. ENGIE Energy Access is a leading provider of solar and mini-grid solutions in Africa, with delivery of renewable energy to 7 million people across nine countries to date. Have you read?

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 4, 2023

Authors: Steve Levay and Ryder Kimball Special thanks to: Arjan Geers, Max Borrmann, Tessa Kramer, Robin van der Schalie, and Megan Zaroda Record low rainfall has pushed the Horn of Africa into a disastrous drought that is precipitating a humanitarian crisis. In the Horn of Africa, millimeters could be the distance between life and death.

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Grist

JUNE 1, 2021

A new study suggests that climate change was responsible for many of those deaths. The paper, published Monday in Nature Climate Change, scrutinized summertime deaths in 43 countries between 1991 and 2018 — the largest collection of heat mortality data ever assembled.

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Global Renewable News

FEBRUARY 26, 2024

North Africa - Algeria, Egypt, Libya, Morocco, Tunisia, and Sudan - faces significant challenges due to climate change, which increasingly disrupts the region's economies that rely on agriculture,

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Grist

AUGUST 1, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. Climate change doesn’t only affect cholera through worsening floods and storms.

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Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

The research relies on satellite data from NASA’s Gravity Recovery and Climate Experiment, used to measure subtle changes in Earth’s stores of water, including groundwater, surface water, snow, ice, and soil moisture. So how is climate change making the world both drier and wetter at the same time?

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Under the relentless sun in Africa, the birthplace of humanity, every living thing had to find a way to beat the heat. I think it’s funny that humans have this enormous taboo about a biological function that’s ultimately going to help us survive climate change,” said Sarah Everts, the author of The Joy of Sweat.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Commissioned by the High Level Panel for a Sustainable Ocean Economy, a group of 14 heads of government [3], ‘The expected impacts of climate change on the ocean economy’ assesses global to local climate impacts on three of the largest sources of ocean-based revenue and jobs – coral reef tourism, wild capture fisheries and marine aquaculture.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Research published on 16 September highlights the troubling trend of pockets of funders continuing to finance additional coal-fired generation capacity in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. These countries need affordable, reliable and clean energy to support their socio-economic development and to mitigate climate change.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

On Monday, the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change released a stark warning that time is running out to adapt to climate change. Climate change is no longer a future prospect; it’s making people sick right now. degrees Celsius (1.96 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The report warns that industries that require outdoor and physical labour, such as agriculture and manufacturing, are particularly exposed to escalating climate impacts, and details how emerging economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia are particularly exposed to escalating heat-related risks.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2023

Tropical forests are vital ecosystems in the fight against climate change. Yet vast areas of forest are still degraded or lost through deforestation and environmental changes, despite many countries pledging forest restoration. The findings demonstrate the important carbon value of conserving recovering forests.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 15, 2019

15 – Climate change poses an existential threat to our societies. Nowhere is this more apparent than in Africa – the most vulnerable continent to climate change, both in terms of impact and ability to mitigate damage. Africa’s private equity funds must become leaders in the global fight against climate change.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 7, 2023

ImpactAlpha, September 7 – African countries top the list of the world’s most climate-vulnerable places, despite having contributed little to the greenhouse gas. The post Hit hard by climate change, African nations lean into opportunities in the green transition appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Energy Central

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

They're rioting in Africa There's strife in Iran What nature doesn't do to us Will be done by our fellow man. The Merry Minuet, Sheldon Harnick Mother Nature has been providing the earth with numerous types of severe weather and climate events over the millennia. Originally posted here.

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Energy Transition

AUGUST 17, 2023

The Paris Agreement remains a much lauded instrument for addressing climate change. But challenges loom large when it comes to applying concepts, such as climate mitigation and climate adaptation, to practical outcomes, to places set to face the brunt of the impact of a warming world, especially developing regions.

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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! He cited research that, if my memory serves, could be summarised as “Everybody wants something done about climate change, but are not so keen on the idea of doing something themselves.

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Global Renewable News

JULY 4, 2023

The Middle East and North Africa (MENA) is one of the world's regions most affected by climate change, imposing challenges on energy systems that are already straining to meet the demands of.

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Global Renewable News

APRIL 15, 2024

To help reduce carbon emissions in Africa's real estate sector, IFC today announced a partnership with Novare Equity Partners to help the company assess the resource efficiency of its properties i.

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The City Fix

APRIL 4, 2024

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

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Impact Alpha

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

Africa is poised to play a pivotal role in the global fight against climate change. The post Preparing Africa’s workforce for a green future appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Its untapped renewable energy potential, abundant land, natural.

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Renewable Energy World

OCTOBER 22, 2021

Developed in response to the 2014 Ebola crisis, 32 solar microgrids will provide first-time access to electricity to 80,000 people in West Africa. Developed in response to the 2014 Ebola crisis, 32 solar microgrids will provide first-time access to electricity to 80,000 people in West Africa. Courtesy: Energicity).

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Energy Transition

DECEMBER 8, 2023

Developing countries simply cannot contribute to climate change. With the United Nations recently declaring ‘a world of debt’, we’re back to it again, and so soon. But this time around, an imminent environmental crisis looms in the background.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Many parts of the Northern Hemisphere - from the USA and Europe to India, Pakistan, and China - have in recent months suffered from the devastating impacts of record-breaking extreme weather events, which were made far more likely to occur due to climate change. Doing nothing on climate change today puts our children's future at risk.

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Global Renewable News

MARCH 25, 2024

The four-day event held in partnership with the Kenyan government brought together national and regional policy makers to discuss how energy efficiency can accelerate Africa's clean energy effor.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

JANUARY 7, 2024

Biodiversity loss, land degradation and climate change. To that end, Joern Fischer is the coordinator of a DFG funded research unit entitled “A Social-Ecological Systems Approach to Inform Ecosystem Restoration in Rural Africa”. Not a rosy outlook for 2024… Nevertheless, researchers are tirelessly searching for solutions.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

NOVEMBER 30, 2020

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : Climate change is affecting the whole globe. Yet, some parts of the world are especially vulnerable to its effects, including Sub-Saharan Africa and its forests. Here, establishing a baseline in terms…

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Mayors from Latin America, Africa and Asia will be welcoming more than 90% of the new urban inhabitants in the next decade. Governing these ballooning cities is a continuing challenge, not just in terms of urban design and revitalization, but.

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The City Fix

MARCH 27, 2024

At COP28, global climate leaders congregated in Dubai for the annual opportunity to review countries’ progress on emissions reductions and to increase climate ambition. One of the conference’s focal points was how to rapidly and equitably transition away from fossil.

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Global Renewable News

OCTOBER 29, 2023

Africa Climate Innovation Week, which will bring African leaders and decision-makers to the United States to explore innovative infrastructure solutions for th. On October 30, USTDA will begin its U.S.-Africa

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 12, 2021

Methane is a major contributor to climate change, and if we can’t measure it, we can’t manage it. ” Methane is one of the most potent greenhouse gases contributing to global warming and a leading cause of climate change worldwide. within reach.”

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2022

” Key Findings: · Ecological threats, such as rapid population growth, water risk, and food insecurity will be exacerbated by climate change, causing mass migration and conflict. · Since 2019, the world’s concern over climate change has decreased by 1.5%. 23 of the 27 are in sub-Saharan Africa and MENA.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2022

UN Conference on Trade and Development fears that slowdown in foreign investment could impact flows of climate-related finance. Investment in projects that tackle climate change is expected to decline in 2022 as global foreign direct investment flows drop, according to a report published by the UN Conference on Trade and Development.

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Business Green

JUNE 19, 2022

The report warns that not only do 600 million Africans now have access to electricity, but around 25 million more people in Africa are living without electricity compared with before the pandemic. The report emphasises how Africa has huge untapped renewables potential.

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