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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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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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

“Climate change is affecting cities all around the world, and Freetown is no exception.” That’s what Eugenia Kargbo, Freetown’s Chief Heat Officer, told UrbanShift during the City Academy hosted in Kigali last year. Through her role—the first of its kind in.

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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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Africa Electricity Resilience Health 100

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

NOVEMBER 8, 2022

The Sharm El Sheikh Adaptation Agenda, launched in partnership with the UN Climate Change High-Level Champions and the Marrakesh Partnership, provides a checklist of 30 actions required by the end of this decade to enhance the resilience of communities living in climate-vulnerable regions.

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Energy Transition

MARCH 5, 2024

African countries together are responsible for only 4% of global carbon emissions, but will suffer heavily from the consequences of climate change. In Uganda, agriculture is already hit by the changing climate, prompting loud calls for a switch to renewable energy sources in the all important sector.

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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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Climate change Agriculture Europe Africa 69

Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2020

The UK needs a far more holistic approach to flood risk and resilience, argue Sara Mehryar, Viktor Roezer and Swenja Surminski from LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. New flood protection announcements are welcome but not enough on their own.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 19, 2022

Africa is responsible for just 3% of global carbon emissions. But global warming and other climate change impacts are negatively impacting these economies, particularly the resulting and increasingly extreme and unpredictable weather events. Climate investing in 2021. Source: 2022 Africa AgriFoodtech Investment Report.

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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

APRIL 12, 2023

South Africa’s cities are economic engines, drawing workers across the country and the continent. Between 2000 and 2014, urban area in South Africa expanded by 1,464 km2. Of the country’s 58.8 million population, 68% live in urban areas. Population projections.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Tool designed to provide investors and companies with greater clarity on the climate resilience of physical infrastructure. A new tool has been launched that helps asset owners and investors assess the risk posed to critical infrastructure by climate change.

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The City Fix

JUNE 26, 2023

Many cities are also more vulnerable to climate change and natural disasters due to their population densities and interconnected infrastructure. Cities occupy just 3 percent of the Earth’s land, but account for most of the global energy consumption and carbon emissions.

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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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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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Electric vehicle Africa Electricity Fossil fuels 59

Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2021

Climate Services for a Net Zero Resilient World aims to help inform future government climate and net zero policies. Climate change poses a threat to both our way of life and the safety of our nation," she said.

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The City Fix

MARCH 17, 2021

In cities around the world, local officials face multi-dimensional sustainability and resilience challenges and are often responsible for achieving many overlapping mandates. More effective solutions require cross-cutting responses and collaboration across multiple levels of government and sectors. New research reveals.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 16, 2023

In the same week as The Lancet reported that heat stress wiped out four per cent of Africa's GDP in 2022, the National Audit Office (NAO) provided a more parochial example of what an era of constant climate adaptation means in practice. But those risks are going to keep on increasing as long as the climate continues to change.

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Resilience Climate change Government Africa 101

Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

2023 has kicked off with yet more extreme weather records being toppled, further underscoring the need for greater climate resilience. The warm year is in line with the genuine impacts we expect as a result of human-induced climate change.

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Resilience Climate change Europe Africa 33

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 24, 2023

Five hydrogen corridors have been identified – from North Africa and southern Italy towards central Europe, from North Africa and southwest Europe to Germany and beyond, from the North Sea to western Germany, from the Nordic and Baltic regions towards Germany and from Greece or Ukraine towards central Europe. million/km (US$2 to 4.8

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Hydrogen Europe Africa Investment 126

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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Africa Sea level rise Biodiversity Resilience 120

Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

UNEP Adaptation Gap report shows the world is still hundreds of billions of dollars short of what is needed to finance climate adaptation. According to climate scientists on the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), climate risks intensify significantly with every tenth of a degree on the thermometer.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Leading Fairtrade partners, including top brands such as Ben & Jerry's, M&S, and Waitrose, have pledged to take accountability for their climate impact and work to bolster the climate resilience of global supply chains, following an open letter signed by 1.8 million Fairtrade farmers. Earlier this week, 1.8

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Resilience Agriculture Carbon-negative Climate change 58

Climate 4.0

APRIL 1, 2021

What We Can Measure, We Can Address To address this situation, a small group of colleagues and I have developed a group of indices and rankings over the past decade that measure the relative technological progress of nations, and the relative difficulty they face in addressing climate change and economic development at the same time.

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Climate change Africa Resilience Investment 52

The City Fix

JUNE 2, 2023

Over the past two decades, Rwanda – the land of a thousand hills – has made remarkable strides: poverty has significantly declined and quality of life has improved. The service, industrial and agricultural sectors have flourished. Even in the aftermath.

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Resilience Agriculture Cooling Biodiversity 73

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

Our overall dependence on groundwater is expected to rise as surface water availability becomes increasingly limited due to climate change. Certain regions, such as Saharan Africa and the Middle East for example, hold substantial quantities of non-renewable groundwater supplies that can be extracted in order to maintain water security.

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Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Pollution Africa 230

Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2024

Energy security now encompasses the reliability of renewables, availability and accessibility or critical minerals, and resilience in the face of physical and cyber threats. Within Asia, the energy transition is marked by robust demand driven by economic growth amidst climate threats and challenges to infrastructure resilience.

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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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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Since COP27 wound down late last year (November 6-18), much of the post event commentary has centered on the fact that as observed by The Conversation, the gathering “failed to go beyond the 2021 Glasgow climate pact’s promise to phase down.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2021

Government-backed climate risk research programme REACH highlights social impacts of water insecurity and climate change. Climate change can impact not just physical health directly, but also areas such as women's empowerment and children's education, especially in certain parts of the world," she explained.

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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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The City Fix

JULY 19, 2021

A decade ago, the South African city of Durban was facing severe water shortages. Dam reservoirs were decreasing at alarming rates, and were 20% lower than average levels. At least one in four residents were already living in water-stressed informal settlements. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The Geothermal Energy Development Project is an initiative of the Green Resilient Recover Rapid Readiness (GRRRR) and has been approved under the Green Climate Fund with the aim of increasing access to clean and reliable energy.

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Geothermal power Hydropower Climate change Resilience 98

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

As president of Sitra, one of the most forward-thinking institutions on the circular economy, Jyrki Katainen said the Five Big Bets framework provided a roadmap for inclusive growth in Africa. In the private sector, circular enterprises are contributing to improving the environment while sustaining livelihoods in Africa.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

It is not a specific practice in itself, but an umbrella term that generally implies sustainable approaches to farming that conserve and rehabilitate soils, nature, and watercourses, while increasing biodiversity and climate resilience. Cultivating more resilient crops.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

Before her transition to the chief heat officer, a position she has committed to for a year, Gilbert was the city of Miami's first chief resilience officer (CRO). Her work in that role encompassed a variety of issues that intersected with climate change issues such as extreme weather and sea-level rise.

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