DeSmogBlog

APRIL 3, 2024

Half of the board members at the world’s six largest advertising and public relations companies have ties to polluting industries, DeSmog can reveal. DeSmog’s analysis reveals that half of these directors have connections to polluting industries. None of the directors, other holding groups, or other companies responded.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the problem of Africa’s declining air quality. Over the last 50 years African nations have suffered from rapidly deteriorating air quality, making their cities some of the most polluted in the world.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

Abidjan in Cote d’Ivoire is one of the cities where the project aims to help governments develop policies to reduce pollution. Stockholm Environment Institute (SEI) and the University of York have been awarded a total of £674,023 for a project that aims to give West African cities access to low-cost air pollution monitoring technologies.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

A lack of pollution monitoring stations has meant a shortfall of data on local, national, regional and global PM 2.5 µg/m 3 ), followed by northern Africa (30.1 air pollution in August and September in South America and from June to September in sub-Saharan Africa.” concentrations globally, according to Professor Guo.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 31, 2024

Football fans, campaigners, and civil society from Africa and beyond have all decried this egregious act of sportswashing by the French major, the top oil and gas extractor in Africa. Despite the glitzy adverts and misleading green claims, TotalEnergies is doubling down on fossil fuel production globally, and especially in Africa.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

APRIL 1, 2024

However, whether in Europe, Southeast Asia or Africa – coastal ecosystems are threatened worldwide due to anthropogenic sustainability crises such as the climate crises or pollution. They also protect against erosion caused by storm surges and other large waves such as tsunamis. … Continue reading →

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

And at Accelerate this year, you will hear from entrepreneurs who are based in cities across Europe, Africa, and the U.S. . Textiles and the fashion industry account for about 20 percent of global wastewater pollution, 10 percent of global carbon emissions and 17 million tons of municipal solid waste. Courtesy of. Close Authorship.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

million rural households across eastern Africa. It is about more than just reducing emissions - it's about improving the health and well-being of women, who are the key agents of social and economic development in rural Africa. With around 1.5 Climate finance is just the means to a development end.".

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

It attempts a snapshot of air pollution exposure in over 7000 cities worldwide, and its impact on health. and NO2 pollution, with fine particles seeming to be an affliction of the world’s poorer regions especially, while NO2 is a problem for city dwellers everywhere. Standout findings this year include a clearer picture of PM2.5

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

A new study appears to reveal rapid degradation in air quality in megacities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East – as well as increases in urban exposure to air pollutants hazardous to health. Busy traffic at a central part of the city in Dhaka, Bangladesh (image credit: Shutterstock / Dmitry Chulov).

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2021

Urgent steps to reduce the risks of water pollution, flooding, and drought are needed right across the world as part of broader measures to increase climate resilience, a major new University of Oxford-led research project has warned.

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Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 23, 2021

The post Africa’s eco start-ups seek to turn the tide on plastic pollution appeared first on ImpactAlpha. When a problem is on your doorstep, it’s only natural to be compelled to find a solution. Over the past years, demand for.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

So conclude researchers at Utrecht University, who have developed a new water quality model they say will better appraise the current and future pollution status of rivers and streams globally. In addition to identifying hotspots of water quality issues, the model can help with attributing the source of pollution to particular sectors.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Projections to 2050 show that much of sub-Saharan Africa will be unsustainable, with 95% population growth projected, currently 738 million people lack adequate food and all but one country facing extreme water stress. · Citizens in three of the four biggest polluting countries have a low level of concern – China, India, and Russia. ·

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 28, 2019

BBOXX, an Imperial London College spinout launched in 2010, has installed about 200,000 home solar systems across Africa, many of them coffee and vanilla bean farmers living off-grid. Roughly 600 million of Africa’s 1.2 2, 2019 in London, UK.

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Energy Central

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Excessive heat and severe flooding has claimed thousands of lives across Europe, Asia, and Africa. It’s a strain on our power grid, agriculture and – most of all – people. It’s not just Texas of course.

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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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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

He argued that "polluters must pay" for rising greenhouse gas emissions that have increased the likelihood of devastating droughts, heatwaves, floods, and storms worldwide, highlighting the recent floods in Pakistan and the worsening famine in the Horn of Africa.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

German, Italian and other companies have been scouring Africa for alternatives to Russian supplies in the wake of the February invasion of Ukraine, raising fears that new projects will lock Africa into long-term dependence on fossil fuels. We cannot be Europe’s gas station. Otherwise we will crash the climate,” Okanda said.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

More and more water resources are being polluted, overexploited, and dried up by humans, sometimes with irreversible consequences. 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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Energy Transition

JUNE 27, 2023

In their quest for sustainable advancement, developing countries in Africa are struggling to switch from traditional dirty energy sources to cleaner alternatives without climate finance from abroad. In this blog, Kennedy Nyavaya looks at how a.

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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

UpEnergy said the emissions reductions were delivered through a new project in sub-Saharan Africa which it launched to replace traditional biomass burning stoves with electric stoves developed by climate tech start-up PowerUP. According to the World Health Organisation, fou million people a year die as a result of indoor air pollution.

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AGreenLiving

FEBRUARY 10, 2021

New research has revealed that fossil fuel pollution caused approximately 8.7 and many developed countries in Europe recorded 1 of every 10 deaths due to air pollution. They found that there are direct links between air pollution from burning fossil fuels and ailments such as heart disease, loss of eyesight and respiratory ailments.

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Fossil fuels Pollution South America Africa 28

Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 11, 2023

The new company was announced at the Africa Climate Summit in Nairobi and is the result of a multi-year development partnership between Virunga Power (a Gridworks investee company) and the Government of Burundi. Virunga Power is developing the Weza Power project and will provide the initial equity investment.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Private jet travel is the most polluting mode of all, consuming lots of fuel yet carrying few passengers. Dubai is surrounded by conflict zones, which block land routes from Europe, Asia and Africa and makes flying there essential. It’s also particularly hard to decarbonise – there aren’t electric planes we could simply use instead.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

North-West Africa (to meet European demand), and the southern Arabian Peninsula (to meet local demand and parts of south Asia). 90% of the world’s physical goods trade is transported by ships which burn heavy fuel oil and emit toxic pollutants. This accounts for nearly 3% of the global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions.

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The City Fix

MARCH 28, 2024

Like many parts of Africa, motorcycles are the most popular form of transportation among Rwanda’s 13.3 million people. Whether they’re commuting to work or school, transporting jugs of water from the local taps or just running everyday errands, people on.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

These events’ aftermath can bring substantial financial losses – including damage to property and pollution of waters, soils, and ecological systems. Projections suggest this number will continue to rise, particularly in North America, Central Asia, and Africa.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. In South Africa, the IFC helped one KFC supplier bolster its operations across the region. The EBRD sold its stake in the company in 2019.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

million people die as a result of air pollution every year, but governments are still spending more supporting fossil fuel projects than they are tackling dirty air. Projects tackling air pollution receive less than one per cent of global aid spending, a new report from Clean Air Fund has revealed.

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The City Fix

APRIL 4, 2024

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 12, 2020

Distributed renewables — mainly solar PV, increasingly combined with battery storage — now have highly convincing economics against costly and polluting distributed diesel for commercial and industrial demand applications. Globally, nearly 3.5 Maximizing impact and energy access. Download it here.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 14, 2022

In 2018, he reported from West Africa, Borneo, and Norway for Reuters’ Ocean Shock project on the impact of climate change on marine communities, sharing a prize for explanatory journalism from the Society of Environmental Journalists. Matthew will help us achieve this bold vision.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 25, 2021

Over 80 percent of directors had a past or current tie to polluting industries, either as a current or former adviser or employee. The cosy relationship between big banks and big polluters is what has got us into this mess. ” MOhamed Adow, Director of power shift africa.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Worse still, it has now emerged from new undercover reporting that Saudi Arabia is operating a so-called ‘Oil Sustainability Programme’ (OSP) designed to artificially increase demand for oil across Africa and Asia. Now the air pollution from burning fossil fuels alone is estimated to kill more than tobacco smoke. Credit: Badvertising.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 3, 2023

They were sampled from highly specialized habitats such as arid soils in Namibian deserts, the surface of lichens around the world, natron lakes in Chad, crevices in rocks in South Africa, or polluted brooks in Switzerland. mg per g biomass, while Scytonema hyalinum had the lowest efficiency at 15.5 mg per g.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

The UN Environment Programme (UNEP) yesterday confirmed service stations in Algeria ceased selling leaded petrol last month - the final country in the world where Tetraethyllead had still been available - officially drawing an end to the use of the highly toxic and polluting petrol additive worldwide.

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