Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2020

The UK needs a far more holistic approach to flood risk and resilience, argue Sara Mehryar, Viktor Roezer and Swenja Surminski from LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. This creates a positive narrative for flood resilience as an investment in the future of our communities.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 29, 2023

These models aim to help eliminate network monitoring blind spots in stress-testing grid resilience and improve severe weather response while reducing reliance on manual field surveys.

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The City Fix

APRIL 4, 2024

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2021

Climate Services for a Net Zero Resilient World aims to help inform future government climate and net zero policies. This research will be vital to ensure we're making the best possible choices on our journey to net zero, making certain the UK is adaptable and more resilient to the effects of climate change.".

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Eco-Business

FEBRUARY 2, 2023

While Southeast Asia is well acquainted with adverse climate impacts, it is less so with the resilience of energy systems. Climate models developed collaboratively can inform adaptation policies and deepen energy integration in the region.

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Eco-Business

APRIL 29, 2024

Across the region, it’s never been more critical to cultivate a resilient healthcare workforce capable of addressing climate-induced public health issues.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Tool designed to provide investors and companies with greater clarity on the climate resilience of physical infrastructure. Engineering consultancy Mott Macdonald and investor body Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI) have launched a first-of-its-kind guide on how to evaluate and quantify physical climate risks to infrastructure.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2021

But far more acute is what’s happening with natural gas, particularly in Europe and Asia. And will countries double down on renewables, gas, or both to shore up their resiliency? We did an episode of this show trying to figure out how oil prices fell to negative $40 per barrel. Times have changed. Oil is up over $100/barrel.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Leading Fairtrade partners, including top brands such as Ben & Jerry's, M&S, and Waitrose, have pledged to take accountability for their climate impact and work to bolster the climate resilience of global supply chains, following an open letter signed by 1.8 million Fairtrade farmers. Earlier this week, 1.8

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Eco-Business

JUNE 8, 2021

Fuelled by rapid urbanisation and population growth, Asia is facing a growing infrastructure deficit. Thomas Walenta, senior investment officer from Asian Infrastructure Investment Bank (AIIB) speaks to Eco-Business about plugging the gap.

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Impact Alpha

JUNE 3, 2020

The United States, like Europe and the Asia Pacific region, has moved past the disaster relief phase into reopening the economy. While we may not fully know whether reopening will cause harm, we do know that impact investors can play a critical role in recovery and planning for long-term resilience. However, it will be no.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 23, 2021

But far more acute is what’s happening with natural gas, particularly in Europe and Asia. And will countries double down on renewables, gas, or both to shore up their resiliency? We did an episode of this show trying to figure out how oil prices fell to negative $40 per barrel. Times have changed. Oil is up over $100/barrel.

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Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 20, 2022

The aim is to generate new knowledge that can help engineers design smarter and more resilient energy grids for urban populations of the future, with flexibility for deployment in islanded grids and off-grid communities. Have you read? Future-proofing Singapore’s grid Microgrids market worth $206bn by 2031 – report.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2024

Energy security now encompasses the reliability of renewables, availability and accessibility or critical minerals, and resilience in the face of physical and cyber threats. Within Asia, the energy transition is marked by robust demand driven by economic growth amidst climate threats and challenges to infrastructure resilience.

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Impact Alpha

JANUARY 22, 2020

22 – Some 270 million smallholder farmers in Africa, Asia and Latin America produce over 70-80% of the world’s food. ImpactAlpha, Jan. Yet they lack access to capital.

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Eco-Business

MARCH 9, 2022

The Ukraine conflict will test the resilience of economies transitioning away from fossil fuels. Asia is likely to feel the sharp end of the scrum for coal and gas as Europe shuns Russian supply.

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Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 28, 2022

Fuller integration of generation, transmission and distribution technologies to balance electric grids, enhance energy security and reach decarbonisation goals is urgently required in Asia as the region races to expand its variable renewable energy generation to spur the energy transition. Renewable integration remains a priority. Next steps.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 19, 2023

Productivity has been boosted by the use of a pool of digital tools including data analytics, supply chain management to boost resilience and full automation of business processes including finance, human resources, manufacturing and procurement.

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GreenTechMedia

SEPTEMBER 30, 2020

The $36 million contract between Duke and Fort Bragg is designed to boost resilience and includes lighting and water upgrades, plus a 2 megawatt storage system tacked onto the solar project. The technology is most widely used in Asia, where land constraints make it an enticing option. “The U.S.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 25, 2022

The report, Smart Cities: Key Technologies, Environmental Impact & Market Forecasts 2022-2026 , states that the global annual spending on smart city projects will increase from $35 billion in 2021 to $70 billion, with the majority of the spending directed towards improving grid resilience and intelligence through smart technologies.

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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). The results were published on 15 September in the journal Science Advances.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 7, 2023

In Asia, 14 countries — accounting for 26% of global transport emissions in 2019 — have made economy-wide net zero commitments. Momentum towards zero-emission transport is growing with countries enhancing ambition and including transport-related targets in their nationally determined contributions (NDCs). However,

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

2023 has kicked off with yet more extreme weather records being toppled, further underscoring the need for greater climate resilience. Both the frequency and intensity of extreme weather events are increasing due to climate change, resulting in unprecedented economic and social impacts," he said. "In The world has been warned, repeatedly.

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Eco-Business

JANUARY 9, 2024

At the COP28 summit, a Singapore-based heat resilience research centre was appointed to lead the region's efforts at managing heat health and productivity as part of a global network. Eco-Business speaks to centre director Jason Lee.

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Green Living Guy

FEBRUARY 15, 2021

Cannabis is unquestionably one of the world’s most resilient plants. That explains why a once indigenous plant to South Asia can now thrive in virtually any region around the world. Cannabis is informally known as weed, a name that resonates with the fact that the plant can flourish on its.

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Eco-Business

AUGUST 15, 2022

Dexter Huerto Jr of engineering firm Danfoss tells the Eco-Business Podcast how food supply chains have been affected by a pandemic and conflict, and how they can be fixed.

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Business Green

JUNE 1, 2020

We are therefore writing to ask that the economic recovery plans you are developing align with the UK's wider goals and deliver a clean, just recovery, that creates quality employment and builds a more sustainable, inclusive and resilient UK economy for the future. Paul Margetts, Chairman of the Country Board, Capgemini UK plc.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The report warns that industries that require outdoor and physical labour, such as agriculture and manufacturing, are particularly exposed to escalating climate impacts, and details how emerging economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia are particularly exposed to escalating heat-related risks.

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Eco-Business

AUGUST 31, 2022

While climate change may affect staples like corn and wheat, hitting food security, breadfruit—widely grown in Asia—can be cultivated in most tropical regions.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 29, 2024

” Reactive’s GridMetrix technology has been deployed globally, serving utilities in Asia, Europe, and the Middle East. We are eager to continue our collaboration with utilities across New York State, aiding them in achieving their net zero goals, safer and faster.” Harris, president and CEO, NYSERDA.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2021

Urgent steps to reduce the risks of water pollution, flooding, and drought are needed right across the world as part of broader measures to increase climate resilience, a major new University of Oxford-led research project has warned. However, Charles argued that "local policies and local investments can make a crucial difference". "It

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2022

The report analyses ecological risk, societal resilience, and peace for 228 countries and territories, 3,638 administrative districts, and 250 cities, assessing their ability to manage their challenges between now and 2050. The impact of natural disasters is decided by a country’s level of resilience.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Mayors from Latin America, Africa and Asia will be welcoming more than 90% of the new urban inhabitants in the next decade. Governing these ballooning cities is a continuing challenge, not just in terms of urban design and revitalization, but.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 28, 2022

Asia Pacific is anticipated to be the largest and fastest-growing market as governments scale up grid digitalisation investments to enable energy firms to implement real-time analysis of grid and consumer usage. billion in smart grid investments is expected to be made in the Asia Pacific between 2018 and 2027. billion to $30.2

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2024

The next largest destination, Germany, received just under 10%, whilst material sent to Asia, overall, increased from around 9% in 2022, to almost 20% in 2023. This also means that just short of 1 million tonnes of plastic has been sent to Turkey for recycling since 2017.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In Asia and Africa, building stock is expected to double by 2050. Buildings’ resilience needs to increase to future proof our homes and work spaces. The necessary interventions to reduce the climate impact of existing buildings should be combined with investing in adaptation and resilience measures.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

Economic losses from extreme weather hit $35bn in Asia last year and are set to worsen as water security threats intensify. The UN-backed agency today published the latest edition of its The State of the Climate in Asia report for 2021 on the sidelines of the COP27 Climate Summit in Sharm El-Sheikh.

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