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Global e-waste has risen 21% in five years, says UN

Envirotec Magazine

million metric tonnes (Mt) of electronic waste was generated worldwide in 2019, up 21 per cent in just five years, according to the UN’s Global E-waste Monitor 2020. According to the report, Asia generated the greatest volume of e-waste in 2019, some 24.9 per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. A record 53.6

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Technology Trending: data centres in space, smart home appliances, LNG tractor

Smart Energy International

Investigating the possibility of putting data centres into space, LG’s ThinQ UP smart home appliance global launch and ‘circular’ farming with onsite methanol production and use for powering tractors are in the week’s technology radar. Task force to innovate space applications for energy Unlocking smart meter data for research.

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How Food Waste is Degrading the Environment

The Environmental Blog

All of this amounts to a waste of the energy, water, and land needed to produce food. Food production, processing, packaging, and transportation all have an impact on global warming. Monitoring the storage temperatures of stored goods requires the use of technologies. It is crucial for supermarkets to reduce food waste.

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Impacts of Climate Change in Vietnam

The Environmental Blog

With a national average of 232 people/km2, Vietnam has the highest population density in Southeast Asia after Singapore. The rapid growth of Vietnam’s population in urban areas is resource intensive and leads to increased energy demand and greenhouse gas emissions. The effect of global warming has already started to impact Vietnam.

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Less that one per cent of global aid spent on air pollution projects, despite escalating health crisis

Business Green

The report further reveals that governments have spent 21 per cent more of development funding on projects that prolong fossil fuel usage, spending $1.5bn on these projects in 2019 and 2020 compared to $1.24bn on projects which have a primary target of reducing air pollution. per cent of grants worldwide.

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Biofuels: An Environmental and Economic Catch 22?

R-Squared Energy

The court rejected an appeal by French energy company Total, which had invested 300 million euros to convert a crude oil refinery into a biofuel plant that would use palm oil feedstock. Biofuels are still expected to play an important part in hitting ambitious climate targets; to keep global warming under 1.5°C

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How Much Energy Do Data Centers Really Use?

Energy Innovation

Energy Innovation partners with the independent nonprofit Aspen Global Change Institute (AGCI) to provide climate and energy research updates. Data centers utilize different information technology (IT) devices to provide these services, all of which are powered by electricity. households (U.S. households (U.S.