DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 23, 2024

Nor is it the only link between the fossil fuel industry and the Bolloré family’s global business interests, which encompass multi-billion-dollar logistics operations servicing major oil companies, including Shell. Bolloré Logistics has done substantial work for Shell. billion euros ($21.7 billon) in revenues.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

In particular, the signatories ask for the removal of Annex B of the guidance and for the reinstatement of the existing guidance allowing companies to purchase biomethane certificates as part of their Scope 1 reporting. using fossil fuels); scope 2 are from the purchase of energy (e.g.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

As the European Union sets its sights on a green hydrogen boom as part of its plans to meet decarbonization pledges and rebuild economies ravaged by the COVID-19 pandemic, North Africa has emerged as a possible source for a significant chunk of Europe’s future hydrogen supply. Underestimating Europe’s renewables potential.

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Impact Alpha

AUGUST 11, 2021

ImpactAlpha, August 11 – Lagos-based Moove partners with ride-hailing and logistics companies to extend vehicle financing to drivers. The post Nigeria’s Moove raises $23 million to finance vehicles for Africa’s transit drivers appeared first on ImpactAlpha. The company uses alternative credit.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

Logistics networks were broken and then reshaped. 2020 brought tremendous disruption to the global transportation sector. As the world coped with a pandemic, millions began working from home and millions more lost their jobs. All while the planet experienced the. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The group has set a target of unlocking $100bn in public and private capital to improve access to clean power across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Africa has a $2.3tr investment gap in its core infrastructure which must be addressed," said Ayaan Zainab Adam, CEO Africa Capital Partners.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

Today, we discuss the logistics of integrating LPG for cooking into the developing world, talk a bit about government programs that are pursuing this goal, and finally discuss some success stories around the world. What are the logistics of moving LPG into a developing country in central Africa, for example?

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Smart Energy International

MAY 17, 2024

Both mining and refining is highly concentrated, respectively primarily in DRC and China, is expected to further intensify and environmental and logistical bottlenecks mean that reliable cobalt supplies are far from assured.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Juan Jose - or JJ - Freijo is global head of sustainability and Europe, Middle East and Africa government affairs at Brambles, global supply-chain logistics company operating in more than 60 countries.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Next they might have branched out into distribution and logistics, before also becoming a consumer utility and microfinancier. Trying to everything is "very, very hard," said Emma Hawkins, director of corporate finance at PEG Africa. Their performance is woeful, especially in Sub-Saharan Africa where they’re bleeding money.

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

Elemental’s 12th cohort focuses on a range of societal challenges, including sustainable urbanization, building decarbonization, electric vehicle charging, last-mile logistics, recycling optimization and regenerative food production. Of the $12.5M invested in Cohort 12, $7.2M

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2023

It will initially launch in the UK with the service then extended to Denmark, Italy, Sweden, Canada, Australia, South Africa, and the United Arab Emirates. The new initiative, called GoGreen Plus, is a first for global express carriers, according to DHL.

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Business Green

MARCH 22, 2022

The business said it was partnering with with suppliers of key ingredients, such as coffee and dairy milk, to improve farming practices, and is working with logistics suppliers to find low-carbon fuel alternatives. By 2023, all key suppliers to its UK and Ireland business will have carbon management requirements, it added.

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Clean Energy Trust

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

And in particularly poverty-stricken regions like parts of Sub-Saharan Africa, there is an even greater difference. More than half of those in extreme poverty live in Sub-Saharan Africa. What’s more, substantially all (99%) of these undernourished people live in Asia, Africa, or Latin American and the Caribbean.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Moove, which is ride-hailing giant Uber's leading supply partner for Europe, Middle East and Africa, said it has designed the platform to help provide customers with both easy access to a range of public chargers and competitive rates for charging.

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Business Green

AUGUST 2, 2022

Since last year, the company also announced it was also able to further reduce its Scope 1 and 2 direct emissions and increase its use of renewable energy, achieving 100 per cent renewable energy at all 55 of its logistics sites in Japan, its Sumida Complex, and its Sakata Plant.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

At WPP, board chair Roberto Quarta has seven current and past ties to polluting industries, the highest in DeSmog’s analysis, including two current partnerships at Gulf Capital and Clayton, Dubilier & Rice, fund management companies that have significant stakes in fossil fuel infrastructure and logistics companies.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Echoing Sharma's defence of the logistical difficulties seen over the past few days, she adds that a lot of the challenges have been a result of Covid and stresses that "this is the biggest global event the UK has had - so it was always going to be hard". "It "I have to credit Alok [Sharma]. I think he has worked really, really hard.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 6, 2021

That might sound odd, but studies in India and in parts of Africa have shown that if you switch people from burning biomass to burning LPG, it reduces the amount of deforestation and you can get a net negative CO2 impact from that switch. And it produces a negligible, in some cases even a negative increase in CO2. Robert – Thanks, James.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

The diplomatic and logistical challenge faced by the British government as it prepares to host the COP26 Climate Summit intensified further today, as a coalition of over 1,500 civil society groups called for the meeting to be postponed. Today, 57 per cent of Europe is fully vaccinated while just about three per cent of Africa is," said Essop.

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Elemental Excelerator

MAY 19, 2022

As we looked at what other countries were doing in Africa when it comes to e-waste management, we didn’t see any company that was doing it properly. It’s a logistical feat to address each and every piece of e-waste the way WEEE Centre does. So we had to benchmark with European countries.”

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AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 31, 2019

He worked at Google from 2003-2012, overseeing more than $10 billion in sales in North and South America, Europe, the Middle East and Africa, among other leadership roles. OSI has already installed equipment to make the Impossible Burger, and we’ll start seeing new capacity every week.”.

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The City Fix

MARCH 22, 2024

If a picture can tell a whole story, then the image below of an intersection in Dar es Salaam, Tanzania, shows the past, present and future of global transformation in the transport sector. During Transforming Transportation 2024, which focused on.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 15, 2024

A third was the expansion of renewable energy infrastructure with a flexible solar panel system from Power Logistics accounting for up to 20% of the series’ energy.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 5, 2021

Plummeting bus and train ridership, lost jobs, overflowing warehouses, more inequality: 2020’s disruptions to the transport sector were widespread and deep. Speaking at Transforming Transportation 2021, co-hosted by WRI and the World Bank, sustainable mobility leaders from around the world. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 20, 2022

Mohamed Adow, director of think tank Power Shift Africa said the achievement came after three decades of appeals for help from climate impacted nations. "To The agreement was hailed by activists and developing countries as a major breakthrough.

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The City Fix

MARCH 9, 2023

Transportation is a crucial enabler of economic development, providing people access to markets, employment, education, and health services. In addition to these development benefits, improving transport systems by making them cleaner, safer, more inclusive and more resilient accelerates climate action.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2021

The Covid-19 pandemic is far from over, and cases could well rise in many key countries - including the UK - this autumn, thereby posing further logistical and diplomatic challenges. And then there are the unavoidable questions as to whether the Summit will even go ahead at all, and - if it does - what format it might take.

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GreenBiz

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In July, the logistics and retail giant announced plans to buy 6 million gallons of SAF from Shell over 12 months. Traders follow the sun, making deals during the business day in Australia, Korea, China, Europe, South Africa and, finally, the Americas. We need to look at logistics providers. We need to look at airlines.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Both human and national security will almost certainly be affected by threats to agricultural regimes including increased pest and disease presence, spikes in food prices and shocks to food production and food logistics. The UN reports that temperature increases in the Sahel region of Africa will be 1.5 Action has followed words.

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Climate Tech VC

MARCH 4, 2024

🏭 Elevated Signals , a Vancouver, Canada-based manufacturing logistics software company, raised $6m in Series A funding from Yaletown Partners, Third Kind Venture Capital, WGD Capital, Raiven Capital, Pareto Holdings, and other investors.

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Business Green

MARCH 13, 2020

Real estate investor NREP has confirmed plans for the largest Nordic rooftop solar plant to date, unveiling proposals for a 60,000 sqm installation at a logistics facility in Sweden. Senegal has formally opened the first large-scale wind farm in West Africa, cutting the ribbon on a 158MW project developed by UK-based Lekela.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 27, 2024

To build a successful battery supply chain, Africa needs to move away from a legacy of mineral extraction and exporting of raw materials to investing in the existing opportunity to partner, beneficiate and manufacture. Afrivolt is developing Africa’s first lithium-ion cell manufacturing facility with a 5GWh installed capacity.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

Again, for reasons of logistics, but also because of the geopolitical concerns that we all are aware of.

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 14, 2020

In July, the logistics and retail giant announced plans to buy 6 million gallons of SAF from Shell over 12 months. Traders follow the sun, making deals during the business day in Australia, Korea, China, Europe, South Africa and, finally, the Americas. We need to look at logistics providers. We need to look at airlines.

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Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 11, 2020

In rainforests in Brazil and Indonesia, many places in Africa, all around the world, people eat many kinds of insects. The logistical challenges to keep ‘the Grand Armee’ of Napoleon mobilized led to the invention of canned food. We have been eating them for a long time however.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

However, the generally positive mood was offset somewhat by ongoing frustrations with the logistics for the event, with a growing number of civil society observers and even some country negotiating teams claiming they were being sidelined thanks to limited capacity in the main venue and long queues to even enter the summit site.

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