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The Most Beautiful Places to Run in the World

The Environmental Blog

If you are a beginner or thinking about running your first trail race, The Golden Gate Headlands Marathon is definitely something you should not skip. Inca Trail Marathon, South America. Two Oceans Marathon, South Africa. Limpopo, South Africa. This epic 26.2-mile Midnight Sun Marathon, Norway.

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First global atlas of rangelands launches, and reveals vulnerable state of a neglected ecosystem

Envirotec Magazine

A key reason they have been underappreciated is the lack of definitive data capturing their size and value. Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems.

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Key aspects of smart water meter reliability for African water utilities

Smart Energy International

Generally speaking, according to the special working environment of tropical rainforest or dry desert climate in African countries, the requirements for smart water meter will be more strict than in Asia or South America. In Africa, the theft of brass material is inevitable, so a plastic body may be more suitable for water companies.

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

GreenBiz

There is definitely increasing urgency around this issue," Waxman says. 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. Here’s what we’re up against.

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We want to deliver a green recovery in partnership with business and finance

Business Green

In January this year, I helped launch East Africa's first ‘green bond' on the Nairobi securities exchange, followed by its dual listing on the London Stock Exchange. Projects in Mexico and China, for example, helped harmonise national definitions of green bonds with global ones. Our UK Pact programme has been part of this.

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It's not totally unlike a comet

Business Green

The IPCC report is genuinely terrifying and Russia's attack on Ukraine has revealed the complacency contained in suggestions worst case climate scenarios can be definitively ruled out - the only good news is that the world knows what needs to be done and has the tools to do it. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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Fighting deforestation should be a top priority for 2021, and here’s how it can be

AGreenLiving

“There is definitely increasing urgency around this issue,” Waxman says. 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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