Grist

MAY 18, 2023

Drought in Indonesia and Southeast Asia during and directly after an El Niño event leads to wildfires, which also damage homes and other infrastructure and lead to economic losses. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline El Niño could cost the global economy $3 trillion on May 18, 2023.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

Tech and retail giant announces raft of new renewables investments during New York Climate Week. 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

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Business Green

JANUARY 22, 2020

The US investment giant has switched to 100 per cent renewable electricity, cut emissions and bought offsets. Bank of America has become the latest corporate to hit carbon neutrality, with the firm announcing yesterday it has met the target a year ahead of schedule.

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Business Green

APRIL 20, 2021

Government export agency says its provided record levels of sustainable investments to developing countries last year. We increased UKEF's capacity to support overseas projects in over 100 markets last year, and its financing has placed UK businesses at the heart of many important global projects as a result.".

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

Chile's unrest threatened to stymie foreign interest in clean power investments that had helped the country's renewables market become one of the hottest in Latin America, with a compound annual growth rate of 31.5 The protests would “only delay some investments," van den Hurk Mir said.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

On Tuesday, SparkMeter closed a $12 million investment led by Clean Energy Ventures and Breakthrough Energy Ventures, joined by Alitheia Capital, Total Energy Ventures, and other investors, bringing its total funding to date to $16 million. billion invested as of the end of 2018, most of it in the prior two years, according to Wood Mackenzie.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Other partners are using the same underlying open-source architecture to certify renewable energy credits in Europe, South America, Africa and Asia, he said. ” With NV Energy, “it’s about making it ultra, ultra cheap and trustworthy for solar systems producing energy credits,” he said.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

We need urgent, global leadership and immediate action to change the way we use land, to invest in the restoration of nature, to cut emissions and critically to stop destroying forests for food production," said Katie White, executive director of advocacy and campaigns at WWF.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

What happened with COVID doesn’t raise my confidence level that people are ready to make the kinds of investments we need,” he said. “I I think COVID is a warning. We don’t have this.”. This story was originally published by Grist with the headline Dengue, Lyme, and cholera: how climate change is spurring disease on Mar 3, 2022.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

In a bid to encourage uptake from customers, the firm said it would focus on value to ensure affordability does not become a barrier to buying more environmentally-sustainable plant-based food, as well as working with suppliers and investing in innovation to develop new products. to further the company's expansion.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

These advances might not matter as much in rain-soaked Europe but in much of Africa, South America, Central and Southeast Asia they are vital to continuity of life. Likewise, we can save water by monitoring and tackling leaks as they occur. We can also find water to recycle that was previously disposed of.

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Front And Centered

JANUARY 10, 2021

Asia Tail is the fellow and cofounder of the Y?haw? Asia was the recipient of the first Vadon Foundation Native Artist Fellowship, and was named one of Seattle Magazine’s Most Influential People in 2019. The fellows will be joined by a cohort of New Economy learning peers who are also developing new economy projects.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For example, Canada and Central and South America, where oil is costly and carbon-intensive to extract, would have to leave 83 and 73 percent of their oil reserves in the ground, respectively, while the United States would have to leave only 31 percent of its oil reserves undeveloped.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Agriculture's impact on local communities is a pertinent issue in South America and Southeast Asia where land conversion seriously impacts Indigenous peoples. In mid-July, Extinction Rebellion UK blockaded a McDonald's supplier to protest meat-eating as damaging to the climate.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Generally speaking, according to the special working environment of tropical rainforest or dry desert climate in African countries, the requirements for smart water meter will be more strict than in Asia or South America. In summary, the critical aspects of the smart water meters that need to be considered are as follows: 1.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Because finance and investment are the lifeblood of net zero projects - and we can only meet this challenge together. I know the drive to deliver a return on investment and the search for growth areas in the economy. Giving global investors the confidence to invest. Experience working in the private sector.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

As pressure on the industry grows to phase out dirty energy and take responsibility for the climate crisis, buying goodwill may be a better marketing investment than ever. For decades, the fossil fuel industry has polished its public image by using donations and sponsorships to associate itself with feel-good events and causes.

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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.

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T Rex Group

JANUARY 26, 2022

T-REX, with its advanced support for private credit and ESG-driven investments, will become part of Riverstone’s Decarbonization Growth Equity platform. “We are more excited than ever about T-REX’s impact as both a strategic investment and a valuable tool for our businesses.”

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T Rex Group

JANUARY 26, 2022

T-REX, with its advanced support for private credit and ESG-driven investments, will become part of Riverstone’s Decarbonization Growth Equity platform. “We are more excited than ever about T-REX’s impact as both a strategic investment and a valuable tool for our businesses.”

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Grist

MARCH 7, 2022

The hotspots for migration, according to the new report, are in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and South America , though small island nations are disproportionately impacted due to the effects of sea-level rise. In a climate-disrupted world, more people are going to need to be more mobile.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

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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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Guterres added that scaling up investments in adaptation would be "essential for surival" and called on developed nations to ensure that funding flows allocated to projects that delivered emissions reduction were matched by investments that enabled nature and humans to prepare for escalating climate impacts.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

APAC, starting with China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand as the first region; India, the Russian sub-continent as the second region; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as the third region, and then North and South America as the fourth region.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Everywhere is being impacted, but parts of Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Arctic regions, and small island states are at particular risk. Supporting and investing in nature is critical. Well planned adaptation works - and is cost effective.

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Charged

MARCH 1, 2024

They invest in the infrastructure, they sign long-term contracts with locations to install charging stations, and they offer fast charging to EV drivers. Since then, we’ve been able to acquire customers all across Europe, but also in Australia, Southeast Asia, the US and Canada, South America.

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Business Green

MAY 6, 2021

Just a couple of decades ago, the notion of a major company investing in nature might have seemed absurd – today it is mission critical to the future of the economy. Even major polluters such as Shell are getting in on the act, investing in forestry protection and management projects in Peru, Indonesia, and Scotland. No time to lose.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

As a result, many fossil fuel majors now have net zero goals in place and are - to varying degrees - investing in green technologies in a bid to diversify their revenue streams. But it isn't just cheap and abundant wind, solar and batteries which threaten the dominance of oil and gas.

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

The first non-Chinese ‘pre-coins’ (ingots) appeared in Asia Minor before 2000 BCE. The Hawala system was born in India in the 8th century and was used to transfer payments between south and east Asia and the Middle East for goods that were moved along the Silk Road. The ingots got smaller, got stamped, got rounder etc.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 25, 2021

There, he apparently led a global team to secure an $8 billion investment in U.S. LNG projects while also marketing the company’s LNG to consumers in Asia, the Middle East, Europe, and South America for a hefty $620,000 annual salary.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2023

Senate passes bill attempting to crackdown on ESG investing Elsewhere in the US, the politicisation of Environmental, Social, and Governance (ESG) investing continued to escalate as the Senate passed a bill that aims to prevent pension managers from making investment decisions primarily based on non-financial factors.

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CleanTechnica

JUNE 28, 2023

The amount of capital invested in renewable energies has never been higher. This is a significant increase from pre-COVID levels — renewable investment is up 70% from 2019. In 2022, $1.3 trillion was used to finance energy transition technologies. Unfortunately, this money is disproportionately focused on the Northern Hemisphere.

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