DeSmogBlog

MAY 8, 2024

Political leaders make denier and delayer arguments. Other studies have found that it reduces policy support,” said John Cook, senior research fellow at the Melbourne Centre for Behaviour Change at the University of Melbourne and founder of Skeptical Science, one of the first websites to fight climate change denial myths. “If

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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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Smart Energy International

MAY 10, 2024

Elections in the EU and the US have our industry waiting with bated breath to see the next guard of political agendas take the scene and usher in policy updates – all at a critical time as 2025 and 2030 deadlines for our planet approach. The timing of Wood Mackenzie’s analysis is apt.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2024

Regional patterns Broken down by region the trilemma report states that North America is addressing its energy trilemma by focusing on infrastructure resilience, community-driven energy equity and environmental sustainability, with the transition towards clean energy propelled by policies such as the Inflation Reduction Act.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2024

He said the fight against global warming was “the most important story of our political time” and delivering successful action to combat climate change also “means a free world order”. Climate action ‘not a plaything’ Climate action should not be “a plaything for politicians – our political generation needs to find a solution.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

APRIL 9, 2024

This partnership aims to highlight the KGC 2024 as the premiere geothermal event in Kenya, East Africa, and the African Region, highlighting the important role that Kenya has played in the global geothermal sector, as well as the opportunities for further growth. It is a non-political, non-governmental, and non-profit organization.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

At present, North America and the UK are certainly playing catch-up to Europe, given Europe had started well ahead of the pack with policies supporting the creation of a hydrogen economy. There’s already been some promising movement in procuring hydrogen from high baseload-level nuclear in existing plants in both France and the U.S.” “At

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

Today, it is focused on Latin America, tomorrow on Europe (my own backyard), Thursday on Asia and Friday on Africa. The drivers are manifold and deeply structural – they span, at least, across various policies, whether economic, social, employment, energy, climate, taxation, welfare, housing, or health”. Have you read?

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 7, 2022

According to the CCUS and hydrogen: 5 things to look for in 2022 report, 2021 saw these markets characterised by announcements of new projects, policies and investments under efforts by governments and companies to achieve net zero targets. Projects in 2021 focused on technology advancements and infrastructure preparations.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 23, 2019

Scatec believes that targeting the sub 25-megawatt segment with a lease model in emerging markets will allow it to steal market share from diesel, which is used for more than 250 gigawatts of power generation in Africa alone. In Africa, for example, the default rate is only about 3.5 Re-deployable systems.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

On the contrary, they’re highly organized, empowered, and engaged in community management of natural resources, bioeconomy and circular economy initiatives, and sustainability policies. It’s a model that can be used throughout Brazil and inspire similar solutions in the other BRICS and developing countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.”

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Business Green

JULY 26, 2021

Under current policy scenario, however - which would see the world blast far over the temperature limits set out in the Paris Agreement - the report predicts energy jobs would increase by only three million to 21 million jobs by 2050.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 8, 2023

They are harvested by the tonne off the coast of West Africa and pulverized into fishmeal and fish oil that’s exported to Europe and Asia. We’ll be unpicking the challenges associated with feed – which is also the main source of greenhouse gas emissions for the sector – and looking into how the aquaculture industry seeks to influence policy.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

For large middle-income countries, like India and South Africa, there were signs of progress on investments needed for developing clean energy. In the developed world, countries still have to internalize, politically, that bills are coming due – both at home and abroad – after decades of delaying action on climate change.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 13, 2024

“The worry is that carbon removal will be something we do so that business-as-usual can continue,” said Sara Nawaz, director of research at American University’s Institute for Carbon Removal Law and Policy. “We Nawaz co-wrote a report released today titled “ Agenda for a Progressive Political Economy of Carbon Removal. ”

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 14, 2023

This is revealing complex political and environmental issues around the world and giving people the knowledge and platform to affect positive change. John Ahlrichis, Founder of Rock Geospatial LLC (right) and Menghestab Haile, Regional Director of Southern Africa from the United Nations World Food Programme (right).

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

In his first speech after staging a stunning political comeback at Brazil’s presidential elections, Luiz Inácio Lula da Silva vowed to halt the Amazon deforestation that surged under outgoing rival Jair Bolsonaro. In order to succeed, Lula won’t just need to face down farmers, loggers, and miners. He will also have to win a battle of ideas.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

This has moved these issues up the political priority list and bolstered a massive effort to diversify India’s economy away from coal and other polluting technologies and practices. Public concern about environmental issues has steadily increased over the past decade.

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

is now essentially a meaningless goal,” said David Victor, a professor of public policy at the University of California, San Diego and a former lead author for the IPCC. Scientists identify the missing ingredient for climate action: Political will. degrees was never the end-all be-all of climate policy. Luckily for humanity, 1.5

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

With current policies putting the world on. People around the world are already witnessing epic heat waves, wildfires and drought at 1.1 degrees C (2 degrees F) of global warming, compared to pre-industrial averages.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 18, 2022

South Africa and Namibia are leading the way in sub-Saharan Africa while Australia and New Zealand, which also have hydrogen strategies in place, also are developing or considering trade routes. And the transition is not a fuel replacement but a shift to a new system with political, technical, environmental and economic disruptions.”.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Of the two exceptions, Denmark and South Africa, the first did not mention Denmark’s role as the largest oil producer in the European Union, while South Africa’s stall was sponsored by the country’s top coal companies. South Africa, Australia, UK, and Germany. South Africa struck a deal on Tuesday for £6.2 Greenwashing’.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 4, 2022

“It is probably safe to assume that institutional investment has also experienced comparable growth in the past few years,” said Rabia Ferroukhi, Director of Knowledge at IRENA’s Policy and Finance Center. What’s driving the increase in investment? Photo by Dennis Schroeder / NREL). Offshore wind has seen a reduction of 42% in 10 years.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Amid myriad social, health and political crises, business sustainability is alive and well and living the Paris Agreement. From Amsterdam, Gellert oversaw the company in Europe, Africa and the Middle East for nearly six years, working before that at outdoor gear maker Black Diamond. Who's news.

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Fairsnape

JANUARY 22, 2020

We are not telling you to “offset your emissions” by just paying someone else to plant trees in places like Africa while at the same time forests like the Amazon are being slaughtered at an infinitely higher rate. We couldn’t care less about your party politics. degree or well-below-2-degrees commitments of the Paris Agreement.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

I think there’s an increasing recognition that policy measures and action targeted at production itself is going to be needed to get the kind of decline rates that we’re thinking about here,” said Steve Pye, one of the study’s authors, during a press call on Tuesday.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Despite their importance, research on forests and livelihoods to date has mainly focused on understanding local household and community-level dynamics – identifying the links between human and natural systems at the regional and global scales is critical for future policy and action. The five trends revealed by the research are: 1.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

Defra has rightly proposed a fundamental shift in this subsidy system now we have left the European Union's Common Agricultural Policy. A much better way forward is to design policies that recognise the different challenges facing each major emitting sector , including international competitiveness. Gilet Jaunes a l'Angleterre, anyone?

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

The paper states that if nature is explicitly valued and traded in nature markets, it creates an opportunity to deploy policy and market mechanisms that shape its value and the distribution of its economic benefits. "We

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Smart Energy International

MAY 24, 2022

The World Economic Forum, taking place in Davos-Klosters, Switzerland, takes the theme of ‘History at a Turning Point: Government Policies and Business Strategies’. What strategies, policies and partnerships can accelerate progress?

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 26, 2023

Complicating the commonly-held assumption that climate disinformation is “always ideological, that people are spreading falsehoods in order to push a political agenda or enact a worldview,” King said a great deal of climate disinformation is beholden to only one principle: the maintenance of a profitable status quo.

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Business Green

JANUARY 3, 2021

The political challenge, of course, is how to uncover polluters without raising the hackles of other global powers. The technically more complex - but also more important - prize is tracking manmade carbon dioxide emissions and their sources, which are at the centre of EU and global climate policy.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 4, 2021

West Africa battled the tragic spread of Ebola while the West remained largely ignorant to the horror of public health threats. With political attention elsewhere, there is currently insufficient policy support to realise this potential to any meaningful degree. A UK policy environment to enable it was not.

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Business Green

JULY 18, 2022

The UN Secretary General has once again called on political leaders to meet their international climate finance promises, as he this morning addressed the launch of a two-day climate conference co-hosted by G7 host Germany and the Egyptian COP27 Presidency. We must rebuild trust and come together - to keep 1.5 Mitigation. Adaptation.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Amid soaring energy, food, and living costs, he warned the world now faced rising inequalities, declining political trust, and worsening climate impacts that have left economies facing "rough seas". "A

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 14, 2022

In South Africa, three civil society organizations launched a case alleging that the government’s plans to obtain new coal power threaten various constitutional rights. But it also reflects a deeper evolution in the politics of climate change and in the attitude of activists, social scientists, media professionals, and lawyers.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 3, 2021

That is long term, patient capital that focuses on growth over dividends, is not always available to developing countries because of the perceived political and/or economic risks. In a recent study, the IE A found that in 2019 the number of people without electricity access was 770 million and 75% lived in sub-Saharan Africa.

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