Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The research provides evidence that global water towers are at risk, in many cases critically, due to the threats of climate change, growing populations, mismanagement of water resources, and other geopolitical factors. According to the authors, the most relied-upon mountain system is the Indus water tower in Asia.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The research provides evidence that global water towers are at risk, in many cases critically, due to the threats of climate change, growing populations, mismanagement of water resources, and other geopolitical factors. According to the authors, the most relied-upon mountain system is the Indus water tower in Asia.

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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. The talks come as the government draws up its hotly-anticipated coronavirus recovery economic stimulus strategy, which is expected to be unveiled next month.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 8, 2023

One of the biggest stories and most widely supported initiatives coming out of the 2023 UN Climate Change Conference (CO28) in Dubai, UAE is the pledge to triple the world’s installed renewable energy capacity by 2030 to limit global temperature rise to 1.5°C.

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Grist

AUGUST 28, 2023

Around the world, leaves play a critical central role in staving off the worst impacts of climate change. This story is part of Record High , a Grist series examining extreme heat and its impact on how — and where — we live.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Professor Hanqin Tian, co-leader of the study and director of the International Centre for Climate and Global Change Research at Auburn University, said that the research underscored how global food production systems were undermining efforts to combat climate change.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The company announced its latest green investments at New York Climate Week, confirming plans for its first project in South America in the form of a solar farm in Brazil, as well as its first solar farms in India and Poland. "We In the Asia-Pacific region, the company now has a total of 57 renewable energy projects.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 2, 2021

There has, quite understandably, been an increasingly heavy focus on the role of human diets in climate change. At present, animal diets are a major climate problem. Livestock is too often fed on diets heavy on soya, which has been linked to land-use change and deforestation in parts of South America and Asia.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

As SIGWATCH data shows (see graph above), while campaigning on meat divestment has a way to go before it reaches the dizzying heights of carbon divestment, it is seeing a sustained increase that correlates with greater attention on industrial agriculture's contribution to climate change and environmental degradation.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Two separate reports from WWF and Greenpeace have similarly highlighted how soy remains a major driver of deforestation, especially in South America, despite the growing number of pledges from retailers and agri-businesses to develop sustainable soy supply chains.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

degrees Fahrenheit) above preindustrial temperatures — the target named in the Paris Agreement that would prevent the most catastrophic impacts of climate change. Meanwhile, in the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Asia, gas production could increase into the 2030s to help those economies grow before peaking. degrees Celsius (2.7

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

Investors believe the prospects remain strong for Chile's hot renewables market, despite recent social unrest that caused the nation to relinquish hosting climate talks last year. Violent clashes with police left 29 dead. In the meantime, Chile’s administration is working to quell investor concerns.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Groups such as WWF have previously shown that acknowledging these "hidden emissions" shines a whole new light on the effectiveness of the UK's efforts to tackle climate change. We can't expect them to tackle the climate emergency if we won't ensure they earn a decent income.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

For more information, read our full investigation into the meat industry’s messaging on climate change. Animal agriculture isn’t a serious driver of climate change’ Meat industry leaders are increasingly marketing meat as sustainable, arguing that meat production in countries such as the U.S.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It comes amid growing concern among consumers about the health and environmental impacts of meat and dairy products, with demand for such products driving deforestation South America and other areas, while livestock itself is also a major greenhouse gas emitted.

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Grist

JUNE 27, 2022

The first step, as with any climate change-related issue, is sizing up the scope of the threat. Historical range: Chikungunya fever was first identified in Tanzania in the 1950s, remained relatively rare for half a century, and then exploded into more than 60 countries throughout Asia, Africa, Europe, and the Americas after 2004.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

And, as the film's director Adam McKay explained in a recent podcast with Volts David Roberts , no metaphor is ever going to be exactly right, especially for something as complicated as climate change, but a comet that the world chooses to ignore is not the worst parallel for our current predicament. billion and 3.6

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Salmon is fed on other fish — small, oily, and nutritious pelagic species — which are harvested by the tonne off the West African coastline and pulverized into fishmeal and fish oil for export to Europe and Asia. In 2023, I will be watching what happens with oil and gas fields in Alaska, the Arctic, Africa, and South America.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

This “reputational sportswash,” Simms adds, is why sport sponsorships are such a “prized asset” for fossil fuel companies, which also use them to promote the false narrative of individual responsibility for environmental pollution and climate change. Filling in For Governments. That is classic misdirection.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

produced LNG under long-term export contracts is destined for the Asia-Pacific region, according to a recent report by energy watchdogs, a sign of Europe’s reluctance to commit to long term contracts for fossil fuels in the face of climate change. But more than three-fourths of the U.S-produced

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

And, through the Powering Past Coal Alliance, the UK has worked with Climate Action 100+, Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change, UN Principles for Responsible Investment and Ceres, all of whom are here today, to help align coal finance and investments with the aims of the Paris Agreement.

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AGreenLiving

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Although commonly grown in regions of Asia, Africa and South America, jackfruit is readily available in most major markets. Jackfruit is a tropical fruit, but you won’t easily confuse it with the likes of pineapple, kiwi or mango. Instead, it has a look, flavor and texture unique to its own.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 21, 2020

Founded in 2014, One Tree Planted works on reforestation projects in North America, South America, Asia, Africa and Australia. If you’re looking for ways to help fight climate change , or get involved in your own community, you can start with planting trees. Do it until passion slaps you across the face.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

World’s top scientists have sounded alarm over intensifying impacts of climate change, warning that nature protection must be at the heart of efforts to tackle the problem. Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change. "It

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Grist

MARCH 7, 2022

From scenes of scared Americans fleeing to Mexico in The Day After Tomorrow to the Biden administration’s discussion of migration as a matter of national security , climate migration is often viewed by wealthier nations as one of the many negative impacts of climate change.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Nor is climate change helping. Central and South America lead in number of tree species, followed by tropical parts of Southeast Asia and Africa. More temperate areas of Europe, North America and Asia have both less tree diversity and fewer species threatened by extinction.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Climate change is impacting billions of people - and more severely than previously thought. Climate change impacts are not a distant prospect, but today's reality, affecting nature, people's lives and infrastructure everywhere, and scientific evidence on the scale of the threat is becoming stronger all the time.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

If we actually want to stop climate change, then this must be the year in which we get serious about doing so. Speculation is continuing to mount over whether the two high profile summits will be able to proceed as planned, given the worsening coronavirus waves currently afflicting parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

As such, the UK government is said to be working on plans for a new multibillion-pound green development bank that could both directly fund low carbon infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa, and South America, and underwrite private investment.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.) Just to give an example, for journeys between Europe and Asia, the Northern Sea Route can already be two to three weeks faster than the Suez Canal. will go down significantly, leading to more economic activity.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

It is nothing short of a crisis, and the blame can be placed on the changes in land and sea use, direct exploitation of organisms, pollution, invasive alien species, and climate change that is caused by human activity. Yet as it stands no such equivalent collective overarching goal or framework exists for reversing nature loss.

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

Top insurers and economists warn climate change remains biggest global economic threat, despite on-going COVID risks. Failure to act on climate change could shrink global GDP by one-sixth and the commitments taken at COP26 are still not enough to achieve the 1.5 C goal," he warned. "It

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Climate 4.0

AUGUST 17, 2022

Its proposed $369 billion expenditure to address climate change represents less than 2% of the country’s annual GDP. Yellow-coded nations, facing moderately difficult challenges, include much of South America, much of Northern Europe, Taiwan, and Tanzania, among others.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

In roughly two weeks, leaders from around the world will converge on Glasgow for COP26, the 26th United Nations Climate Change summit and U.S. all year, that’s hurled deadly floods and storms through the South and up the East Coast, and that literally set the ocean on fire in July: the fossil fuel industry.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 9, 2023

In the years it strikes, the band of warm ocean water spanning from South America to Asia known as El Niño triggers far-reaching changes

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