Impact Alpha

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

No matter where you are in the world, if you work somewhere in the entrepreneurial ecosystem – entrepreneur, investor, support organization – your life has unavoidably changed in recent months. The post Weathering the Storm: COVID-19 lessons from social entrepreneurs in Southeast Asia appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

Long-term exposure to arsenic in water used for drinking, food preparation or irrigation of crops can cause a range of health issues affecting every organ in the body, such as cancer, diabetes and pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases.

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Asia Health Africa Sustainability 200

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

1 Only seven countries and three territories last year met World Health Organization pollution guidelines for fine particulate matter, according to the latest report by Swiss company IQ Air, published in March. The study noted that, In southern and eastern Asia, more than 90% of days had daily PM2.5 µg/m3) and Southern Asia (37.2

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This included Europe, Asia and the US. Solution Arvia is a leading electrochemical oxidation expert and has developed a range of water treatment systems which target persistent organic chemicals such as 1,4-dioxane. Our Ellenox system uses electrochemical oxidation to mineralise organic pollutants.

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FuelCellsWorks

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Organic growth of around 30% per year to reach the EUR 400 million mark Adjusted EBITDA margin of over 15% already targeted before 2028 Strong regional expansion into Asia and.

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Asia Organic Energy Energy 69

The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

About two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems.

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Organic Climate change Sustainability Pollution 98

Eco-Business

OCTOBER 18, 2022

[Special Report] Going 100 per cent organic is not easy for smallholder farmers in the region. Is there a middle road to take where a gradual shift can be managed, while ensuring that the livelihoods of farmers are taken care of?

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

The national composition of MSW is 50% organic matter, 35% recyclables and 15% landfill refuse. Harmonia, which is located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the South region, also features domestic composting, and diverts almost half its organic waste from MSW collection and treatment systems. São Paulo has three sanitary landfills.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

The researchers have examined the levels of antibiotic residues that are likely to contribute to antibiotic resistance from different aquatic sources in the Western Pacific Region (WPR) and the South-East Asia Region (SEAR), regions as defined by the World Health Organization. The researchers declare no competing interests.

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Health Asia Organic 259

AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 15, 2020

Organic urban agriculture, renewable energy and beautiful landscaping come together at the Thammasat University Rooftop Farm (TURF), Asia’s largest organic rooftop farm that spans 236,806 square feet. TURF can provide up to 80,000 meals — 20 tons of organic food — each year for the 40,000 campus residents.

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Impact Alpha

MAY 5, 2023

ImpactAlpha, May 5 — Impact organizations in the U.S., Europe and Asia are hunting for new talent, including analysts, associates and directors. The post The Week’s Impact Jobs: May 5, 2023 appeared first on ImpactAlpha.

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Asia Europe Organic 52

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

A new study appears to reveal rapid degradation in air quality in megacities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East – as well as increases in urban exposure to air pollutants hazardous to health. of up to 12% for ammonia and up to 11% for reactive volatile organic compounds. The researchers also found 1.5-

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Asia Africa Pollution Health 130

Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

North-West Africa (to meet European demand), and the southern Arabian Peninsula (to meet local demand and parts of south Asia). As a result of this, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) committed to decarbonising international shipping in 2018, aiming to halve GHG emissions by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

The signing of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in 2001 marked a historic moment, as it was the first global treaty aimed at eliminating or restricting chemicals harmful to human and environmental health.

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Europe Health Pollution Asia 218

Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Conversely, the domestic and livestock sectors drive organic and pathogen pollution worldwide”, Jones remarks. This is especially the case for developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia”, Jones explains. The authors extended their focus beyond just past and current water quality. Difficult puzzle.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2023

The region of Central and South Asia was home to eight of the world’s ten cities with the worst air pollution. Bangladesh (65.8 µg/m 3 ) more than 13 times higher than the WHO PM2.5 annual guideline. A total of 118 (90%) out of 131 countries and regions exceeded the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline value of 5 µg/m 3.

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Charged

DECEMBER 13, 2021

According to NOVONIX, “The new facility will play a key role in building a Canadian battery materials supply chain, limiting the current dependence on Asia and capitalizing on the tremendous growth in this sector created by the increased demand for electric vehicles and grid energy storage.”.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 4, 2024

“The Carbon Majors research shows us exactly who is responsible for the lethal heat, extreme weather, and air pollution that is threatening lives and wreaking havoc on our oceans and forests,” said Tzeporah Berman, international program director at the grassroots environmental organization Stand.earth, in a press release. In the U.S.,

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Fossil fuels Ocean acidification North America Pollution 115

FuelCellsWorks

NOVEMBER 10, 2023

6th, the award ceremony of the Global Call 2023 organized by UNIDO (the United Nations Industrial Development Organization) was grandly held at the Shanghai International Import Expo. SHANGHAI– On Nov. This competition.

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Organic Hydrogen Energy Energy 105

GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

Currently, five golf organizations have joined: the United States Golf Association (USGA); Waste Management Phoenix Open; The International Golf Federation; World Minigolf Federation; and Sentosa Golf Club in Singapore. Nonprofit organizations such as the National Links Trust , recent bid winners to take over operations of Washington, D.C.’s

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Climate change Real Estate Agriculture Sustainability 545

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 22, 2021

Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO). The most dominant region in the world today for aquaculture production is Asia, particularly China, but Norway (for salmon) and Central America (for tilapia) are also big exporters. One nonprofit organization, GreenWave , is even advocating the idea of "regenerative ocean farming."

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Seafood Startups Health Organic 525

Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 24, 2022

The COVID-19 pandemic has brought on a new age of growth for digital transformation, and the world’s reliance on the internet will only continue to rise, writes Jimmy Yam, Vice President of East Asia for Eaton. Jimmy Yam is Vice President, East Asia. Image: Eaton. Have you read? $38 ABOUT THE AUTHOR.

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Energy Energy Asia Fossil fuels 105

DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Pereira and Phillips were two of at least 177 environmental and Indigenous land rights advocates killed last year, according to the non-profit organization Global Witness in its latest annual report on risks to environmental activists, while many more were threatened with violence or attacked. They would not make it back alive. May 4, 2023.

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Sustainability Consulting

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

This concept continues to gain momentum and there has been significant progress with organizations committing to meet sustainability goals, including efforts such as reducing emissions and building social responsibility into supply chains.

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Asia Organic Sustainability Innovation 52

Hydrogen Fuel News

MARCH 4, 2024

Extensive Experience and Leadership Okray is a veteran in the world of finance and corporate strategy, having contributed his expertise to major organizations like Eaton (NYSE:ETN) Corporation, Grainger, and Advance Auto Parts (NYSE:AAP). He also held significant roles in Asia, Europe and Opel.

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Innovation Transportation Automotive Asia 90

Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

The South Wales-based plant’s commissioning marks the next phase of the innovative VAMOS (Value Added Materials from Organic Waste Sugars) project, set up to examine the feasibility of innovative resource recovery techniques to use municipal waste as a raw material feedstock for the circular and bio-based economy.

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Waste Waste Biotechnology Biotech 245

Green Living Guy

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

News Release | 24 November 2022Read time: 3 mins MANILA, PHILIPPINES (24 November 2022) — Countries in central and west Asia have endorsed three new cross-border cooperation initiatives to help accelerate the region’s recovery from the COVID-19 pandemic, improve food security, and boost the development of clean energy.

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Asia Energy Energy Health 124

ThinkGeoEnergy

AUGUST 21, 2023

The United Nations Industrial Development Organization (UNIDO) concluded a capacity-building programme for experts and policymakers in geothermal development from Eastern African countries, namely Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya, Rwanda, the United Republic of Tanzania, and Uganda (targeted countries).

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Geothermal power Organic Africa Policy 98

GreenBiz

MAY 21, 2021

Losses came in the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado savanna in Brazil, the grasslands of the Northern Great Plains in the United States and, more recently, similar ecoregions in Central Asia and Africa. That’s surely part of the reason why only nine of the 22 traders replied.

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Agriculture Ethics Demand Asia 280

ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 1, 2024

IFC, a member of the World Bank Group, is an international organization that, in accordance with its Articles of Agreement, seeks to facilitate the flow of, and promote the creation of conditions conducive to the flow of, private domestic and foreign capital into productive investment in member countries.

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Cooling Investment Organic Innovation 87

Smart Energy International

JANUARY 28, 2024

Building on the outcomes of the pilot, Flexidao extended its work with Google across the EMEA region and is now expanding globally to cover North America, Latin America and Asia-Pacific. Simone Accornero, CEO of Flexidao, describes the initiative as the “kicking off a journey.

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Carbon 72

Front And Centered

MARCH 28, 2022

We are inviting Applications for systems change projects for a just, transformative and regenerative economy from individuals or organizations from communities of color on the frontlines of an unjust system. – Asia Tail , Director of Y?haw? Indigenous Artists Collective. How to Apply – Application Information.

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Organic Asia Sustainability 94

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It ranges from 10 percent of GDP in advanced economies to more than 30 percent in South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. . Companies are showing a growing awareness that good social performance can translate into improved business performance and better relationships with customers and local communities.

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Policy Sustainability Government Asia 525

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). This includes both the physical and environmental conditions that the species is adapted to, and how it interacts with other organisms.

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Logging Biodiversity Resilience Soil 147

ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 12, 2023

The 45th New Zealand Geothermal Workshop was a huge success, with nearly 350 delegates attending the event organized by the Geothermal Institute at the University of Auckland. People came from all around the world with large delegations from Indonesia and Taiwan.

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Organic Energy Energy Sustainability 59

GreenBiz

JANUARY 14, 2021

Several countries in Asia, including China, the world’s largest chemical producer, have developed national chemical regulatory programs strongly influenced by the EU’s design. The EU chemical regulation footprint is also strong in the rest of the world. will look closely at the potential for adopting elements of the new EU programs.

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Policy Health Law Asia 465

ThinkGeoEnergy

MAY 2, 2024

This project has been selected by the Japan Organization for Metals and Energy Security (JOGMEC) as a debt guarantee business for geothermal resource development. Additionally, forest maintenance activities will be conducted near the power plant in cooperation with the local community to promote environmental conservation.

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Geothermal power Cooling Construction Organic 52