Grist

MAY 30, 2024

If this is a biological response, imagine what’s happening in places like India and Africa where the heat can get to an unbearable 130 degrees Fahrenheit,” Basu remembers thinking. percent across North America, Australia, New Zealand, and Europe in 2020; but the United States’ preterm birth rate was higher — 10 percent.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 21, 2020

Qatar, whose natural-gas exports trail only those of Russia, will host the FIFA World Cup in 2022 and has pledged to make the event carbon-neutral. ” Total has 3 gigawatts of renewables in operation so far, with solar projects spread around the globe including in Chile, South Africa and Japan. Lowest-ever solar PPA price.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The GMA declined to offer a formal comment, however a spokesperson told DeSmog in an email that the group works to “simplify and distil public information” around international events which are “often dominated by an anti-meat narrative”. The files also detail collaborations planned for the event itself.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

The Role of State Actors She identified both Kremlin-linked and Chinese state media campaigns intent on creating “a division between the African continent and Europe or North America.” King said that narrative cannot be labelled climate disinformation “because there’s nothing that you can prove or disprove.”

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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. "As

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Heatwaves are scorching Europe, the United States, North Africa, Siberia, and some parts of the Middle East and China. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. Water and forest management, and other human factors, contribute to the severity and likelihood of these events.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The strong growth in demand in 2021 was driven by the economic recovery that followed 2020’s lockdowns and a succession of extreme weather events. 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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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Once each city’s fund reaches $1,000, Heartland Tree Alliance will coordinate a volunteer planting event with each city’s forester. One Tree Planted works on global reforestation efforts in North America, Latin America, Africa and Asia. Give a tree sponsorship at Heartland Tree Alliance. Find a native tree nursery.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 6, 2021

The AMOC influences the climate of the east coast of North America and the coasts of northwestern Africa and western Europe. This could also decimate the world’s food supply, as it would affect rainfall from South America to India and West Africa. If it failed, sea levels would rise on the U.S.’

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Grist

JULY 6, 2021

The Paleocene-Eocene Thermal Maximum (PETM), as this event is known, is “the best geologic analog” for modern anthropogenic climate change, said University of Wyoming paleobotanist Ellen Currano. During the climate event you have a nearly complete turnover of plants,” Currano said. The problem is, it’s not about the average conditions.

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Greentown Labs

SEPTEMBER 20, 2023

Check out a recording of the event below, and read on to learn about each startup, the climate impact of their technologies, and their progress during the program! Greentown partner ENGIE North America was a sponsor of the sneaker drive , which brought together local nonprofits, business owners, educators, and many climate champions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

2023 has got underway with a dual warning on the urgent need for governments and businesses to enhance their climate resilience, thanks to a fresh wave of temperature records and a new report highlighting the multi-billion dollar cost of extreme weather events over the past 12 months.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 10, 2021

2021 has been a scorching year for extreme heat events across North America - cities across the usually temperate Pacific Northwest reached temperatures as high as 117 degrees Fahrenheit in July. And Freetown in Sierra Leone is soon expected to appoint Africa's first chief heat officer, The New York Times reported.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2021

Extreme sea level events, such as coastal flooding, that occurred just once per century in the recent past, are projected to happen at least annually in 60 percent of places by 2100. of heating, heavy rain and flooding are projected to intensify in Europe, North America and most regions of Africa and Asia. “We

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Defend Our Future

JUNE 22, 2023

As events like major hurricanes, wildfires, heat waves, and cold snaps increase, so does the anxiety of being unable to access health and safety services. Exclusion, whether in education or safety services, intensifies eco-anxiety. And let’s not forget the passionate Campus Ambassadors at Defend our Future.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

I encourage all to participants to join the event. We will have more than 100 CXOs from the leading companies as well as some of the top researchers and policymakers from 30 + countries who will be speaking at the event. World Energy Storage Day (WESD) is a global movement.

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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. The direct link between climate change and specific extreme weather events has never been clearer.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

NOVEMBER 18, 2014

In 2011, that key understanding inspired Hillary Clinton to create TechWomen, a professional and cultural exchange program for women from Africa and the Middle East. In order to participate, young women from Africa and the Middle East apply for 78 highly competitive spots.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

“Corporations have the ear of and influence over elected lawmakers and the Administration’s agency directors, when they should instead be listening to the constituents they serve,” says Simone Adler of Pesticides Action Network North America (PANNA). Africa has workable, sustainable alternatives right here at home.”.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

EV100 Program Manager for North America, The Climate Group; New York City. Just seeing how difficult that is and how quickly an extreme climate change event can rip through a community was extremely powerful for me and a validation of my professional purpose to play a role in this work," he says. Deonna Anderson.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

The coronavirus pandemic is an impact, an event - a tragic and world-changing event to be sure, not to mention a crisis that could yet unleash even more terrifying second order impacts as nationalist governments seize the opportunity to crack down on civil liberties and ratchet up bellicose rhetoric.

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Climate Tech VC

DECEMBER 11, 2023

GS Futures, and Traxys North America, Greenland Technologies, Shell Ventures, and WorldQuant Ventures, and others.  🚗 BasiGo , a Nairobi, Kenya-based EV buses in Africa company, raised $5M in Debt funding from British International Investment.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 8, 2024

in debt from Africa Go Green Fund.    ✈️ Cloudline, a Cape Town, South Africa-based aerospace startup, raised $6m in Seed funding from Schmidt Futures, Raba Partnership, Verod-Kepple Africa Ventures, and 4D. 70% of US wind power blows in Red states , with real implications for the ’24 election.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

As part of its COVID-19 response, it donated more than $8 million in cash and food to organizations across North America. . Katrina Shum, Sustainability Officer, North America, Lush Cosmetics. As North American sustainability manager for 25-year-old U.K. Sustainable Development Goal 7. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Climate Tech VC

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Heat stress caused income loss equivalent to 4% of Africa’s GDP , when 2022 losses in Europe and North America were just 0.1%   Opportunities & Events 💡 Programming for the Planet : Submit proposals by Nov 24th , for this workshop exploring the use of programming in climate tech. respectively.

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Renewable Energy World

JULY 22, 2019

The HydroVision International event is now under way in the Oregon Convention Center in Portland, with more than 3,000 hydropower professionals from around the world coming together for four days of learning and networking.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2020

Catastrophic flood events have been reported in Asia, Africa and North America during the pandemic; governments and societies need to recognise the importance and urgency of taking a holistic approach to resilience and increase their level of preparedness to manage compound risks.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 2, 2022

Adams, and the miserable crew was forced to continue to carry on to Cabo Verde, an archipelago on the westernmost point of Africa. It’s also been used to track weather conditions recorded during a 1939 extreme snowfall event in New Zealand. Authorities did nothing. A sheet of rain beat down on the Eunice H.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

"Hydrogen is clearly riding on the renewable energy revolution with green hydrogen emerging as a game changer for achieving climate neutrality without compromising industrial growth and social development," explained Francesco La Camera, IRENA's director-general, at a launch event for the report this weekend. But hydrogen is not a new oil.

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R-Squared Energy

OCTOBER 31, 2019

One key note, is that while lithium will penetrate in this market, lead will be the main choice and will dominate even more in countries that are doing rapid deployment (India, part of Africa, Western China, Vietnam, etc.). . Lithium batteries require special BMS controls to prevent the battery from thermal events such as fires.

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Women in Cleantech and Sustainability

FEBRUARY 20, 2014

She is a DrPH candidate at UCB, as well as Associate Director of Emergency Obstetric Research in West Africa for the Bixby Center for Population Health and Sustainability. million impressions per online event. Stachel is a board-certified obstetrician-gynecologist with fourteen years of clinical experience, holding an M.D.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 17, 2021

Deonna Anderson Vartan Badalian, 28 EV100 Program Manager for North America, The Climate Group; New York City LinkedIn | Twitter Vartan Badalian’s mother has a favorite story to prove that being born on Earth Day imbued him with an innate concern for the environment. And that’s his hope for the apparel and footwear industry as a whole.

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