Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2021

Greenpeace said the decision “disregards the human rights and interests of the people in Fukushima, wider Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.”. He stated: “The Japanese Government’s decision is in line with practice globally, even though the large amount of water at the Fukushima plant makes it a unique and complex case.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

The experiment was set up by the University of Oxford’s Professor Andy Hector and colleagues over twenty years ago as part of the SE Asia Rainforest Research Partnership (SEARRP). The results were published on 15 September in the journal Science Advances.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

has agreed to voluntarily lower their carbon emissions, report progress and implementation efforts to show transparency. New golf course developments in Asia, the Middle East and Africa are incorporating sustainability into the design and implementation phases of their projects. Nearly every country in the world, including the U.S.,

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Business Green

MARCH 16, 2020

Green groups welcome ICAO's decision to exclude 'questionable' carbon credits from the industry's CORSIA offsetting programme. The approved schemes include the UN Clean Development Mechanism, the Gold Standard, and the Verified Carbon Standard.

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

rural households, generating credits for the voluntary carbon market. Shell has struck a deal with social impact project developer C-Quest Capital to supply more than 60 million offset credits for the voluntary carbon market, with the oil and gas giant agreeing to fund "clean and efficient" cookstoves for more than 1.5 With around 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Hosting the ceremony, EI President Steve Holliday FREng FEI commented: “These Awards recognise the engineers, scientists and innovators who together make energy safer, cleaner and more accessible – from conventional fuels through to growing fields in low carbon technologies. “I Health and Safety: NDT Global. Low Carbon: Egypt-PV.

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DeSmogBlog

FEBRUARY 8, 2024

The technologies ExxonMobil is pursuing can,” said Exxon’s Chief Executive Darren Woods during a speech about “reframing the climate challenge” at the Asia Pacific Economic Cooperation (APEC) CEO summit in November. World-scale problems like climate change need world-scale companies to help solve them — like ExxonMobil.”

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 22, 2020

In recent years, seaweed has been quite a catch for health-conscious consumers, in turn, making kelp, a brown macroalgae, one of the more in-demand types of seaweed offerings. Kelp is also able to naturally remove carbon dioxide from the atmosphere, mitigating rising temperatures and climate change.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The findings emerged from a free grid health check offered to customers using the company’s GridEye monitoring systems. The company serves around 40 distribution system operators (DSOs) in Europe and Asia, with a particular focus on Switzerland and Germany. “Nowhere in Western Europe will the grid fall over tomorrow.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

But the other thing that came out of it, which wasn’t in the original plan, but it was absolutely an interesting outcome, is they have reduced their carbon dioxide emissions because of the switch to more efficient and low carbon fuel. In Asia, it was just over 6%. So, in terms of CO2 reduction, it’s huge.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

The tag “forever chemicals” is clearly very appropriate for a class of synthetic compounds whose unusual molecular structure, including the carbon-fluorine (C-F) bond (considered one of the strongest found in organic chemistry), appears to offer little scope for any thermal or other degradation at all, so they endure permanently.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Business Secretary pushes green finance agenda as he unveils £12m climate fund to support projects Africa, Asia and South America. As we emerge from the public health pandemic, we not only want to support businesses to bounce back as quickly as possible, but also to do so in a way that meets the UK's big, structural challenges," Sharma said.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2021

The government said the funding would help cut millions of tonnes of carbon emissions and improve the lives of over 600,000 people in tropical forest communities across Africa, Asia and Latin America. In addition to protecting 2.1 In related news, the UK government today also announced a new £2.7m

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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. Chantelle Ludski is serving as the North America and Asia Pacific COO for the Anthesis Group sustainability consultancy. Thought for Food announced Melissa Ong as its Southeast Asia CEO. Who's news.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 20, 2022

Moreover, the growing adoption of electric vehicles is expected to pave the way to green mobility with zero carbon emissions. This technological development will offer support to the latest communication systems, intelligent building systems, health and safety of tenants, and energy consumption reduction.

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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. With this Global North-financed fast-food expansion comes a host of environmental, social, and health concerns in regions often unprepared to field them.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 12, 2021

Greenpeace said the decision “disregards the human rights and interests of the people in Fukushima, wider Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.”. He stated: “The Japanese Government’s decision is in line with practice globally, even though the large amount of water at the Fukushima plant makes it a unique and complex case.”.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

Property insurance giant Chubb has launched a new "global climate business unit" to provide tailored insurance for low carbon technology developers and users, as well as risk management and resiliency services for firms managing the impacts of climate change, it announced yesterday.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

“We have a common goal of protecting the environmental sustainability of the natural resource used to power our generation assets and this leads to better decisions that protect the long-term health of the resource,” said Mr Hawksworth. “We Geothermal energy is an important part of New Zealand’s energy mix because it generates 24/7.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The influential analyst firm today released fresh projections looking at the likely effects of Covid-19 - which was officially declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation this week - on markets for renewable electricity, EVs, heating, cooling, and the circular economy.

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

Several speakers highlighted how a large cause for declining US emissions since the early 2000s has been switching from dirty coal to “clean” natural gas, and that such coal-to-gas switching could enable further emission reductions in Asia. carbon budget , which is necessary to avoid the worst of planetary warming.

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Business Green

APRIL 22, 2020

Seven out of eight of the most satisfied countries, on the other hand, were in Asia with the UAE, Singapore, Cambodia, Philippines, Uzbekistan, China, and Turkmenistan reporting high levels of public satisfaction.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Producers claim their animal feed comes from responsible sources and their livestock use land unsuitable for other uses, all the while supporting biodiversity and capturing carbon from the atmosphere through holistic or other types of “regenerative” grazing. For example, while Brazilian meat giant JBS reported emissions of 7.14

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Grist

AUGUST 11, 2020

Health impacts related to the toxic emissions spewing from these places — especially the tinier particles that enter deep into the lungs — are well documented : asthma, heart disease, pregnancy complications, and lower life expectancies make up a non-exhaustive list. All of the bees showed similar results.

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Sustainability Consulting

OCTOBER 14, 2020

What does this mean for residents’ health? Similar global studies suggest a link between wildfire exposure and poor health outcomes among newborns in Southeast Asia. Chan School of Public Health found that people with COVID-19 who live in U.S. million fatalities, per year. A new nationwide study from Harvard T.H.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

And protecting and preserving wild spaces such as wetlands, peatlands, and forests from human development has the two-pronged effect of sequestering carbon dioxide and preventing the spread of disease to humans by limiting contact between wild animals and people.

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

The influential analyst firm today released fresh projections looking at the likely effects of Covid-19 - which was officially declared a global pandemic by the World Health Organisation this week - on markets for renewable electricity, EVs, heating, cooling, and the circular economy.

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R-Squared Energy

NOVEMBER 5, 2019

This severe deforestation has undermined biofuels’ sustainability credentials, as these tropical forests are key absorbers of carbon dioxide. Yearly forest fires have spewed plumes of smog across Southeast Asia and put populations of already-endangered species at risk—and there is every indication the fires are getting worse.

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GreenTechMedia

APRIL 14, 2020

Iberdrola, among the world's largest wind power generators, plans to streamroll its way through the coronavirus crisis, with CEO Ignacio Galán announcing plans this month to increase investment in renewables projects and continue adding jobs as soon as the public health crisis is over. Iberdrola has long been a major player in U.S.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 5, 2021

The gas crunch gripping Europe is directly caused by volatile international gas markets that expose the UK to demand surges in Asia and political manipulation by Putin. Don't listen to the fossil fuel enthusiasts pushing fracking as a solution for the UK's currently volatile energy market, argues ECIU's Dr Simon Cran-McGreehin.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

Animal agriculture is the largest emitter of methane, a greenhouse gas 80 times more potent than carbon dioxide when measured over a 20 year period. Several of these arguments reference the idea that grazing livestock can help maintain healthy soils which can store carbon. Past marketing drives run by the AHDB include the £3.5-million

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Clean Energy Canada

JULY 26, 2020

Global geothermal capacity is anticipated to grow by 28% by 2024, with Asia responsible for one-third of global expansion. Future phases of the project are estimated to create an additional 800 jobs and save a further 300,000 tonnes of carbon pollution. of the global total). Clarke Lake, B.C. Canoe Reach, B.C.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2021

Echoing the UK government's recent Dasgupta Review on the economic value of biodiversity, The Economic Case for Nature concludes that a failure to protect nature would risk a huge hit to economies worldwide, with countries in Sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia particularly exposed to host of escalating climate and nature-related risks.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Location: “Hevea trees are primarily grown in Southeast Asia,” he says, “while guayule is grown in the Southwestern US.” Fillers, primarily carbon black and silica, represent an additional 25 percent,” Bridgestone’s Niaura says. Chief among them? This is also a climate resiliency play.

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Business Green

MAY 22, 2020

The plan includes climate adaptation measures across seven sectors - water, agriculture, land, forestry, human settlement, health, transport, and mining - as well as measures to scale up hydropower and solar energy, improve energy efficiency and rollout electric vehicles, the according to the news site.

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Business Green

MAY 23, 2022

The likely resulting scarcities in food and water, combined with dire health and wellbeing impacts, would trigger both humanitarian disasters and a huge decline in productivity and employment, the report warns. As such, it argues a low carbon future is now both a societal and economic imperative. 2C warming thresholds.

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Business Green

JULY 17, 2020

A group of exciting start-ups are exploring whether the world's trash mountains could become a valuable source of low carbon hydrogen fuels. Still, there is potential for clean - low- or zero-carbon - hydrogen to take off, energy experts believe. One novel spin on emerging hydrogen fuel options is "clean hydrogen" made from trash.

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