The City Fix

JUNE 2, 2023

Over the past two decades, Rwanda – the land of a thousand hills – has made remarkable strides: poverty has significantly declined and quality of life has improved. The service, industrial and agricultural sectors have flourished. Even in the aftermath.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2022

High levels of nutrients applied to land as fertilisers and manures - as well as eroded soil and pesticides, herbicides and fungicides - are polluting watercourses and damaging habitats. Cultivating more resilient crops. But Singh-Watson is also passionate about another means of boosting resilience on his farm: perennial crops.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 14, 2021

At the same time, there is a growing need to develop and deploy a broader suite of solutions aimed at reducing pollution. 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. Photo credit: Julia Pyper.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 6, 2022

Calls are growing for a wealth tax on the world's super-rich that would raise funds for countries on the frontline of the climate crisis, in the wake of research that shows billionaires significant role in funding polluting industries. tonnes of CO2e produced by those living on incomes in the bottom 90 per cent each year, the analysis notes.

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The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems.

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Business Green

JULY 29, 2020

The British-Dutch multinational yesterday said it would partner with the 2030 Water Resources Group (WRG) and the Alliance for Water Stewardship on several projects supporting water management resilience in key water-stressed countries including Vietnam, India, Brazil and South Africa.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

These family-owned and often impoverished producers each manage only a few hectares of land, but they provide a third of the world’s food and up to 80 percent of food in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Put simply, they are the bulwark against global hunger, yet they have received just 0.3 percent of climate finance.

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The City Fix

MARCH 9, 2023

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

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 6, 2021

The majority of directors at the world’s biggest banks have affiliations to polluting companies and organisations, a DeSmog investigation shows. There were also significant ties to banks and investment vehicles supporting polluting industries, as well as to thinktanks and lobbying groups with a history of campaigning against climate action.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2020

First, adaptation and resilience, helping people, economies and the environment adapt and prepare for the impacts of climate change. Working with Egypt, and others at the UN General Assembly, we launched a Call for Action on adaptation and resilience where 118 nations and over 80 organisations committed to raising their ambition.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

The statement also calls for governments to step up efforts to tackle methane pollution, enhance climate adaptation and resilience, and scale up climate finance for developing countries. The COP27 Coalition is a space for Africans to take back control of our collective future. "The

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The review itself also pledged to "lead sustained international action to accelerate progress towards net zero emissions by 2050 and build global climate resilience, starting with our presidency of COP26 in 2021 and our International Climate Finance commitment of £11.6bn".

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Elemental Excelerator

OCTOBER 17, 2023

These are the innovators who are creating the huge companies of the future – ones that invest in workers, reduce pollution, restore our soils and lower the costs of food and energy.” The why: Despite the continent’s vast potential for solar power, Africa sees only 3% of global investment in clean energy infrastructure.

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Low Impact

SEPTEMBER 26, 2021

Fast fashion is one of the worst polluting industries in the world. At the moment, we live in communities that are far from resilient. I’m taking a risk in terms of resilience there, and it’s not the purely craft initiative it was at the beginning. Fast fashion is one of the worst polluting industries in the world.

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Business Green

APRIL 1, 2020

This is a chance for nations to recover better, to include the most vulnerable in those plans, and a chance to shape the 21st century economy in ways that are clean, green, healthy, just, safe and more resilient. That we don't sow seeds of next crisis, but embed resilience to shocks like pandemics & extreme weather events.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

Prolonged and severe droughts in China, the Horn of Africa and the United States. billion people around the world currently live in contexts that are highly vulnerable to climate change, underscoring the need not just for action to cut emissions, but also to build resilience and improve extreme weather early-warning systems, the WMO said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. That's the future our children have to contemplate.

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Business Green

MAY 12, 2020

How should they evolve to build resilience to the major risks that remain on the horizon - such as future pandemics, economic disruption and the impacts of climate change? Coronavirus is yet to fully hit some parts of the world such as Africa and Latin America, whose health systems are at major risk of being quickly overwhelmed.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 8, 2020

Such an audacious collaborative effort to de-risk innovation and rapidly reduce costs, sooner than anticipated, could help the world cross the threshold to scaling up green hydrogen adoption in multiple geographies and sectors to displace emissions and pollution from coal in steel and power generation, natural gas in ammonia production (i.e.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

JBS, the world’s most polluting meat company, will be out in “full force” in Dubai , according to the files. Just seven percent are based in Africa. Livestock experts with a focus on the Global South have repeatedly stressed the importance of including a range of perspectives in discussions of livestock pollution.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. square feet of land and the assuaging of animal species distinction, water pollution and habitat destruction. In contrast, Nigeria spends over half of its household income on food, followed by nine other countries that spend over 40 percent on food.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. Under the same conditions, people in Africa's tropical regions are projected to lose between three to 41 per cent of their fisheries' yield by the end of the century due to local extinctions of marine fish.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2021

But within hours of it being signed the pollution-loving Australian government signalled it had no intention to strengthen its disgracefully weak 2030 emissions targets. That will not happen until true net zero emissions is achieved and a global economy has been built that is resilient to the dangerous new world we have unleashed.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 12, 2021

All over the world not nearly enough is being done to enhance climate resilience, leaving communities and economies exposed. Despite their mealy-mouthed protestations to the contrary, they continue to cling to the polluting economic models of the 20th century, inviting the planet to burn in the process. will surely die.

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Business Green

MARCH 9, 2020

COP26 can be a moment where the world comes together to ramp up momentum towards a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. First, adaptation and resilience. But we also need to help empower developing countries to leapfrog the polluting options of the past and embrace the clean energy of the future.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

In fact, 789 million people in the world lack access to electricity with 548 million of those in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Indoor air pollution from combustible fuel use for household energy caused 4.3 Additionally, through Community Canopy, NM Group funds tree plantings to help energy conservation and climate resiliency.

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Climate 4.0

APRIL 1, 2021

I was struck not only by the vast disparities in wealth there, but also the sheer dynamism in certain pockets as an exuberant, resilient group of people fought daily to achieve somewhat of a middle-class existence. The graphic accompanying this article shows a projection of challenges in Africa, using our analysis.

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Business Green

APRIL 7, 2020

What happens if harvests fail completely and repeatedly across North Africa, the Gulf, and Latin America sparking a level of migration towards Europe and North America completely unprecedented in human history? There are good reasons to think we can yet minimise climate impacts and drastically enhance global resilience.

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Green Business Bureau

MARCH 25, 2021

In fact, 789 million people in the world lack access to electricity with 548 million of those in sub-Saharan Africa alone. Indoor air pollution from combustible fuel use for household energy caused 4.3 Additionally, through Community Canopy, NM Group funds tree plantings to help energy conservation and climate resiliency.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 6, 2022

Backers say the coalition aims to unlock new technologies that can help reduce the sector’s major contribution to climate change and make harvests more resilient. Africa has workable alternatives right here at home, for resilient agriculture that works with nature.”. Aim4C’s participants skew heavily towards the Global North.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

More than 20 million students in the United States ride school buses every year. This equals approximately 7 billion trips per year, making school buses one of the most widely used forms of public transport in the United States.  But those trips aren’t always.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The findings highlight how human-induced climate change, alongside deforestation, pollution and land use change, is hampering nature's ability to provide services essential to human life, such as coastal protection, food supply or climate regulation through the capture and storage of carbon from the atmosphere. The facts are undeniable.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 17, 2022

He said the push for more efficient fertilizers is partly based in fact, given the glaring problem with fertilizer overuse and nitrogen leaching that pollutes the environment. Carbon credit programs are being developed to legitimize pollution and to uproot communities from their land.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

But more positively, while the gap between adaptation and resilience efforts currently being undertaken, and what is required to safeguard society and ecosystems, remains considerable, such efforts can in fact be very effective, the report suggests. The world's biggest polluters are guilty of arson of our only home.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The latter think tank has warned that Africa in particular is at risk of tying its long term economic fortunes to fossil gas in response to European nations' rush to secure new short-term supplies to end their reliance on Russian exports.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

"At a time where the UK is having to adjust to increasingly frequent extreme weather events as evidenced by the drought over the summer, it is essential that the new PM continues to progress efforts to restore nature and make our environment more resilient to climate impacts.

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