The City Fix

NOVEMBER 30, 2023

Residents of Jakarta, Indonesia woke up on August 31, 2023, to a thick blanket of haze and news that their city was again ranked the most polluted in the world — one of many times during the last several months when air quality became.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

This week’s edition of Smart Energy Finances sees a new study from BDEW and CapGemini detail how sustainable transformation and decarbonisation purchasing are more important than ever for Austrian and German utility Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) goals. ESG for utilities: decarbonisation on the up. Microgrid debt financing.

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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. Only 3% of farmland is equipped for irrigation, and only 5% of that area uses groundwater, compared to 59% and 57% respectively in North America and South Asia. Collect data.

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Green Tech Challenge

JANUARY 6, 2017

Air pollution is becoming a global threat as 90% of urban populations breaths polluted air. In December 2016, the Chinese government reported the highest air pollution and the red alert was implemented in 23 cities in northern China. Examples of those harmful pollutants are nitrous oxides, ozone and particulate matter.

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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. Yes, digital tools like crop monitoring can help farmers become more efficient. percent of climate finance.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 16, 2023

fossil fuel firms are pushing to build more than 2,900 miles of natural gas pipelines to feed liquefied natural gas (LNG) export facilities in Louisiana, Texas, and Alaska, in a bid to send more of the fuel to Asia and Europe, a new analysis by Global Energy Monitor shows. The pipelines would cost billions of dollars to build.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 12, 2022

Machine learning based battery charging protocols, propane as an energy efficient and environmentally friendly coolant for space cooling, the remotely controlled Robobug and a new light on nano-level electrical circuitry, satellite observations for energy development in Africa and a zero emission luxury catamaran are on the technology radar.

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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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Business Green

MARCH 28, 2023

The new project will help African families to switch from unsustainable wood-based fuels to zero-emission electric cooking Ugandan social enterprise UpEnergy has announced it has issued the world's first ever carbon credits linked to emissions savings from the use of electric and clean cooking devices which will be verified by The Gold Standard.

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Grist

DECEMBER 15, 2021

This story is part of the series Getting to Zero: Decarbonizing Cascadia , which explores the path to low-carbon energy for British Columbia, Washington, and Oregon. And, in the United States, political gridlock chopped the heart out of Congress’ most ambitious clean energy plan. . Worried about the climate crisis? If not sooner.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 27, 2021

This assertion will certainly be put to the test in the company's upcoming Gran Canaria trial, where the Ocean Sun system will face Atlantic waves up to 10 meters high. Here, power consumption is high due to the tourism industry, but also costly and polluting due to a reliance on dated diesel generators.

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The Verge: Energy

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

Every major tire manufacturer globally is raising its game — not only in terms of performance in the face of bigger, heavier electric cars but also in terms of environmental impact. Location: “Hevea trees are primarily grown in Southeast Asia,” he says, “while guayule is grown in the Southwestern US.” Chief among them?

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AGreenLiving

MAY 31, 2021

Recently unveiled by SeaCleaners, the Manta hybrid catamaran is designed to combat the oceans’ plastic pollution in a brand new way. Using a biomimetic design, a hybrid propulsion system and a power supply from renewable energy sources, the high-tech boat will not only collect ocean waste but process it as well.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

A contaminant whose importance appears to have grown significantly in recent years, poly- and perfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) present a challenge to pollution management given their apparent toxicity – although a clear picture is still emerging – and persistence. As regulations tighten, the topic seems to be growing more urgent.

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AutoGrid

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

Cleaner Electricity Grids Equal Longer Life Expectancy By Nils Frenkel, Sales Director, North America When I was working with the City of San Antonio’s Climate Action and Adaptation Plan a few years ago, I learned about a shocking statistic in the city I call home. Peaker Plants Are Located Throughout the U.S.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

Below he discusses the issue of water pollution in the fashion industry. Startlingly, the fashion industry is now the second largest generator of pollution on Earth after the oil industry, which is driven by the snowballing effect of ‘fast fashion’. The Citaram river in Indonesia is the most polluted river in the world.

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Business Green

AUGUST 8, 2022

Greenpeace investigation reveals textile waste from global brands such as Nike and Ralph Lauren is ended up being burned at sites in Asia. In addition, burning garments in kilns causes local air pollution and exacerbates the carbon footprint of clothes destined for Europe and the US.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 28, 2021

Another airport investor, Spanish transport giant Ferrovial, owns a 25 percent stake in Heathrow, already the second most polluting airport in the world , despite having had its business plans approved by the Science Based Targets initiative, another UN-backed scheme. Airport Investors: Full Lists.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 20, 2020

Through this challenge, The Incubation Network aims to discover solutions to address the lack of data across Asia's plastics value chains as well as support and enhance the market for plastic waste and recycling innovations with a focus on South and Southeast Asia. Applications are currently open and will close on 13 March, 2020.

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GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Think thin-film solar and biofuels, the two “big bad bets” that Shayle Kann, partner at Energy Impact Partners, identified in a 2020 Interchange conversation. billion according to Bloomberg New Energy Finance to $16 billion, according to PwC.

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Grist

OCTOBER 1, 2022

But as promising as chemical recycling and next-generation plastics may sound, experts also say some of the most realistic solutions to plastic pollution involve eliminating it from packaging as much as possible. Aspergillus oryzae is found in Asia a lot of the time in food management because it is used for fermenting rice,” Armstrong says.

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Business Green

JUNE 10, 2022

Flanders moves to ban gas boilers, GFANZ launches new Asia-Pacific network, and New Zealand steps up efforts to tackle agricultural emissions. A new league table has highlighted how the global electric vehicle market is continuing to rapidly expand, with China seeing sales of zero emission models top three million units last year.

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R-Squared Energy

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

In Part I of my interview with James Rockall, the CEO of the World LPG Association , we discussed the major global problems associated with indoor air pollution caused predominantly by cooking. Rapier: What are countries doing to encourage LPG, and how is LPG usage growing? In Asia, it was just over 6%.

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Business Green

JULY 2, 2020

Companies planning to build new coal-fired power plants will no longer be able to get financing from BNP Paribas, following the banking giant's introduction of a string of new policies aimed at eliminating its exposure to coal-fired electricity projects.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 11, 2023

While bioenergy remains the world’s largest source of renewable energy, there is still at this point a sense that there might not be enough to go around, to meet the demands of aviation. Between 2006 and 2021, these kinds of usage fell precipitously as more and more of this material went into making biodiesel (mostly for vehicle transport).

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

African green hydrogen plans, new coal-to-clean energy deals, and worsening climate impacts. And it pledged to halve the amount of single-use plastic in catering, in response to high expectations, particularly from athletes and consumers, to reduce plastic pollution. Michael Bloomberg announces $242m clean energy investment push.

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Business Green

JUNE 11, 2021

The International Energy Agency (IEA) has published a report this week warning that investment in clean eneryg projects in developing and emerging economies needs to drastically increase if the world is to meet its climate goals. If global goals are to be met, climate policy will need to become not just tighter, but also more joined up.".

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 13, 2021

Gulf Coast typically receives much of the attention for the LNG rush , the Pacific Coast of Canada is home to multiple proposed LNG export projects, as energy companies scramble to export fracked gas from northeast British Columbia. By investing in LNG now, we are going to be locking in climate pollution for 25 to 40 years.”.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 21, 2020

Last week, short-term blackouts rolled across an overheated California after the grid operator said there wasn't enough power to meet demand. Then, coal power generation in the United States plunged 30 percent in just the first half of this year. But what about Asia, where 80 percent of coal gets burned now? Learn more.

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GreenBiz

MAY 17, 2021

Clean energy for Native American communities. Growing up outside of Boston, Zack Angelini spent summers swimming, but one polluted river was off limits. "I Today, Barudin works on state clean energy policy, collaborating closely with tribal leaders to ensure community buy-in and outcomes that are equitable. GreenBiz Editors.

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Business Green

APRIL 15, 2020

Which countries could be the green economic powers of the future? To step into the void left by these polluters, therefore, rapid green growth from a vast variety of clean technologies and more resource efficient systems is urgently needed, ranging from wind turbines and electric vehicles to AI software and air pollution monitoring equipment.

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Green Market Oracle

AUGUST 30, 2020

VERGE Energy Conference (VERGE 20) will take place on October 26-30, 2020. This online event can be attended from anywhere, The central theme at VERGE 20 will focus on how energy systems can be decarbonized, decentralized, digitized and democratized.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

The facility, called Clearwater, was built by the Denver, Colorado-based oil and gas extraction company, Antero Resources, and an affiliate of Veolia, the multinational French waste, water and energy management company. Pollution Concerns From the outset, many local residents were wary. exclaimed another woman.

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AutoGrid

JULY 7, 2022

The gap between distributed and centralized energy capacity additions grows over time in clear favor of DER (see below), highlighting the need for new grid infrastructure approaches that revolve around aggregating and optimizing these diverse, primarily prosumer assets in real-time. This is a sign of market maturity. DER Platform Definitions.

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Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

The botnet Akamai analyzed makes use of the computing assets and electrical energy supply of contaminated machines to mine the Monero cryptocurrency. The system is secure as long as sincere nodes collectively control more CPU energy than any cooperating group of attacker nodes.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 9, 2024

The power lines had been replaced four times in the past two decades. “It Entire sections of wetlands are being filled in and paved over to build LNG export terminals, which will ship fracked gas to Europe and Asia. Department of Energy (DOE) revises its review process. I had a house right over here. Hiatt said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 8, 2023

APRIL Group - or Asia Pacific Resources International Holdings Ltd, to give it its full name - is a massive manufacturer of wood pulp and fiber, the basis of myriad everyday products from office printing paper and packaging to tea bags and viscose fabrics. It is in many ways a remarkable economic success story.

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