Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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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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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

And now, as we look forward to COP26 next November 2021, our aim is to ramp up ambition towards a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy. adaptation and resilience. And I urge you all to continue signing up to the recommendations of the TCFD to build a greener and more resilient financial system. clean transport.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Given that nearly half of the UK's food comes from overseas, with up to 10-15 per cent from Asia, Africa and South America, we all have a stake in ensuring future generations of farmers who produce our food can do so in climate-friendly ways, while earning enough to stay in business and live the sort of life their hard work deserves.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. The scale and scope of what is needed to reduce these climate risks has increased worldwide, and action to boost adaptation and resilience is also increasing. As such, there are plenty of key takeaways for businesses.

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ThinkGeoEnergy

DECEMBER 18, 2023

And the value of geothermal energy as a rock-solid, resilient, indigenous source of power is increasing as the penetration of intermittent renewables increase. That brings me back to my favorite attributes of geothermal power: it’s reliable, it’s resilient, and it’s baseload, bringing energy security to cities, states and countries.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

The performance was driven by significant growth in Asia where 141GW of new capacity was added in China alone, helping to take Asia's total renewables capacity to 1.63TW of capacity. Moreover, Oceania saw 5.2GW of new capacity come online and South America continued an upward trend with 18.2GW of capacity added.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

Healthy ecosystems are more resilient to climate change and provide life-critical services such as food and clean water," said IPCC Working Group II co-chair Hans-Otto Pörtner. "By Climate resilience will become impossible in some regions if temperature rise exceeds 2C, the report warns.

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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.

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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

MAY 6, 2021

Such projects also support ecosystem services, biodiversity, access to freshwater, climate resilience, improved livelihoods, healthy diets, and food security. Similarly, forest protection can deliver significant flood resilience, soil quality, and water security benefits, above and beyond the obvious carbon savings. There are 1.6

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Business Green

JANUARY 11, 2022

Carolina Klint, risk management leader for continental Europe at insurance broker Marsh, said the combination of major, interlinked environmental and social risks underscored the importance of companies bolstering their environmental, social and governance (ESG) strategies so as to bolster their resilience and tap into new market opportunities. "As

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

Moreover, many of the countries and regions best placed to benefit from a green hydrogen future and to become net exporters of the energy source are those most able to generate cheap, abundant renewable electricity, particularly in Africa, the Middle East, Australia, and South America, according to the report. It will create new jobs.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2023

The company said the 2023-2026 Business Plan would see it allocate 85 per cent of the total investment to renewables, clients, and energy management and 15 per cent to electricity networks across fast-growing and low-risk markets in four regional hubs: Europe, North America, South America, and Asia-Pacific.

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