Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 20, 2020

People living in polluted cities are more at risk from Covid-19, according to health experts cited in a 16 March report from the European Public Health Alliance (EPHA), an advocacy group. Air pollution is the biggest environmental health risk in Europe, with the problem greatest in cities, according to the EEA.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

Particulate matter concentration levels are now five to ten levels greater than that recommended by the World Health Organisation, with the situation predicted to worsen as populations grow and industrialization accelerates.

Building Energy Monitoring 147

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GreenBiz

JUNE 3, 2021

Climate tech startups, and investments into them, are growing. In 2020, investments into early stage climate tech companies topped $60 billion and grew at a faster rate than all VC investments from 2013 to 2019. Accelerate is a fast pitch competition featuring startups across the circular economy value chain. Sponsored Article.

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Business Green

MAY 14, 2020

Today more than one million people and 100 environmental groups across Europe added to the growing chorus of calls for the EU to restart its economy by "launching the biggest green investment plan the world has ever seen". To date, more than 1.2 To date, more than 1.2

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GreenBiz

JUNE 30, 2021

The foundation hopes that by accomplishing this in four regions — the United States, China, India and Europe — enough global momentum will be achieved to stop the heating of the atmosphere. and in Europe. and Europe. The goal: eliminate the use of the combustion engine in personal vehicles and the trucking industry by 2050.

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Transportation Europe Electric vehicle Climate change 426

Business Green

JUNE 22, 2022

Confidence is rapidly growing that fully decarbonising the power system across the UK and Europe can be achieved at no additional cost by 2035. The additional upfront investment required for what would effectively be a quadrupling of wind and solar capacity would amount to between €300bn-€750bn, the report estimates.

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Europe Fossil fuels Policy Solar Power 56

Green Roof Technology

FEBRUARY 5, 2018

State of the Art Health Care and Green Infrastructure. All money was directly invested in measurements to improve the environmental foot print and to increase the patients experience, that they can leave the hospital as soon as possible. Germany's state healthcare system is the oldest in Europe, dating back to the 1880s.

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GreenTechMedia

MARCH 19, 2020

Europe, Asia and beyond. These areas are regulatory reform, evolution of market models, the scale of grid edge investment around electrification, and de-risking grid edge investment. Heating electrification is picking up steam in Europe and parts of Asia as decarbonization and pollution-reduction efforts are tipping the scales.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Generations-old conversations about injustice have been borne out by death rates amongst BAME communities; and the urgent need to build resilience to shocks like climate change has been illustrated by the impacts of this health crisis on economies and societies.

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Resilience Europe Carbon-neutral Politics 66

GreenTechMedia

APRIL 6, 2020

But like the talks themselves, Europe's aggressive push to reduce its carbon emissions has been merely postponed , not canceled. Despite the vast economic challenges and immediate public health crisis from COVID-19, European companies and political institutions are restating the importance of tackling the climate emergency.

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Europe Climate change Carbon-neutral Resilience 130

Business Green

MAY 27, 2020

A sweeping €1.85tr stimulus strategy to rebuild Europe's economy from the wreckage of the coronavirus crisis has been unveiled by the European Commission today, promising a green infrastructure spending blitz to help put the continent on a path towards net zero greenhouse gas emissions by 2050. This is Europe's moment," she said.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 25, 2022

The European Union’s scientific and political communities are locked in a battle over whether gas and nuclear can be considered green investments. It’s a “green investment guidebook,” said Henry Eviston, spokesperson on sustainable finance at WWF European Policy Office. But this didn’t suit everyone. An Unholy Alliance’.

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Business Green

JANUARY 19, 2023

From its source in the Pindos Mountains in north-west Greece to its meeting with the Adriatic Sea in Albania, the Vjosa river flows uninterrupted for more than 270 kilometres, making it the longest free-flowing river in Europe outside of Russia. But the picture is much more complicated.

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Europe Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Hydropower 68

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 6, 2020

In fact, in Europe and the United States, more people die of heat waves than from all other natural disasters combined. In the wake of COVID-19, when governments will provide massive stimulus funding to restart economies, it’s more important than ever to consider the long-term value creation of urban infrastructure investments.

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Resilience Climate change Cooling Smart Cities 430

GreenBiz

AUGUST 24, 2020

Also in February, investment firm Neuberger Berman announced a $175 million sustainability-linked corporate revolving credit facility, the first North American financial services firm to do so. So far, 80 percent of sustainability-linked loans have been made in Europe, although the practice is expanding in other countries.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 12, 2021

A huge chunk of COVID-related government spending has necessarily focused on welfare payments and the health response, but the report concludes that even when the focus is narrowed to look only at measures designed to deliver a longer-term economic recovery, only 18 percent of spending has "positive green characteristics.". Of the $14.6

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 16, 2023

For the tenth year in a row, there were no fatalities recorded across G+ member sites in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. G+ members – comprising most of the biggest offshore wind operators in the world – have reported a record 44.6 million hours were worked in 2022, an increase of 38% on the previous year. in 2021 to 1.03

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Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring Asia North America 130

GreenBiz

MAY 29, 2020

While there is no question that addressing public health consequences is the priority, the nature of the equally crucial economic recovery effort raises some interrogations. To stick with mobility, even before business as usual was challenged, private vehicles in Europe were sat idle 92 percent of the time.

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Resilience Automotive Agriculture Europe 447

Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2021

Blackline Safety Europe. By: Ian White, Product Marketing Manager, Blackline Safety Europe. To ensure worker and process safety in hazardous environments, organisations are investing in tools which aid digital transformation strategies.

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Logging Europe Technology Health 246

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

With its unparalleled purchasing power and exacting demands, fast food has long shaped agricultural systems in the United States, Europe, and China. A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe.

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Africa Agriculture Health Investment 88

Hydrogen Fuel News

FEBRUARY 20, 2024

The SPP extends a unique opportunity for eligible shareholders to deepen their investment in Hazer’s future by purchasing new shares. Collaborations are already paving the way for commercial agreements and evidence of an expanding footprint is seen in their varied projects across Canada, Japan, and Europe.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 26, 2021

For instance, according to Eurostat, the populations of common farmland birds in Europe have declined by 17% since 2000. Continuous declines in biodiversity pose a major threat to human health and wellbeing. We urge fast and reliable investments into securing our life-support system – for the future of our children.”.

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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 14, 2020

The findings emerged from a free grid health check offered to customers using the company’s GridEye monitoring systems. The company serves around 40 distribution system operators (DSOs) in Europe and Asia, with a particular focus on Switzerland and Germany. “Nowhere in Western Europe will the grid fall over tomorrow.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 27, 2022

It has also reportedly afforded ERG the capability to self-monitor turbine health across its mixed fleet using one platform. According to ERG, the energy producer has used the software’s data processing to transform its legacy condition monitoring system (CMS) data acquisition to enhance in-house diagnostics.

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Energy Monitor Europe Health Energy 98

AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

PTT Ventures led the round with participation from Sumitomo Corporation , ING Sustainable Investments and Mandala Capital. According to the International Platform of Insects for Food and Feed (IPIFF), insect protein can address the nutritional needs of animals, leading to higher growth rates, better animal health and overall development.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 22, 2019

They will be joined at the summit by Dr Tedros Adhanom, the Director General of the World Health Organization, Simon Stevens, the Chief Executive of NHS England, as well as UK Government Ministers. Andy Burnham, Mayor of Greater Manchester, said: “Air pollution is an urgent matter of health injustice and inequality.

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Pollution Politics Health Transportation 186

Smart Energy International

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Better use of data has the potential to change the efficacy of delivering energy efficiency to those who need it most while reducing energy bills, providing health improvements and playing a significant part in reaching net zero goals. Data, good governance and fuel poverty. Register now.

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Home Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 99

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

European Union officials have opened talks with the Nigerian government to increase flows of fossil fuels into Europe, according to a report by Don’t Gas Africa. What’s so galling is that 89 percent of the liquified natural gas infrastructure being built in Africa is to export to Europe to bail them out of their addiction to Russian gas.

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Africa Natural gas Fossil fuels Europe 84

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 11, 2024

Citizens care less about short-term tax cuts and more about long-term investment in public services and getting help with their energy bills, so in that sense the Chancellor had “failed to ‘read the room’”, said Ashden. The health of consumers’ wallets takes priority over emissions reductions, in this case, or so many observed.

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Transportation Policy Aviation Technology 147

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 9, 2021

Responding to DeSmog’s findings, Natacha Cingotti, senior health and chemicals policy officer at Brussels-based policy and advocacy group, Health and Environmental Alliance (HEAL), said: “[W]hen working on chemicals- and pesticides-related policies, the imbalance of stakeholders in favour of industry interests is striking.”.

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Building Energy Monitoring Business Energy Monitoring Home Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 98

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave? Amidst four concurrent crises — health, economic, race relations and climate — one stand-out 2020 development has been the rebound of major stock markets and, particularly, the growing performance and prominence of environment, social and governance (ESG) traded funds.

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Investment Climate change Ethics Government 489

GreenTechMedia

MAY 20, 2020

” The absolute figures put forward by the IEA in its forecasts are often considered too conservative by many in the renewables industry, but relative changes in those figures are seen as a barometer for the market's health. Low oil prices make renewables a comparatively more attractive investment.

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Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 5, 2024

We've been meticulously tracking climate tech investment, deal by deal, since the term ‘climate tech’ emerged. In 2023, a challenging macro environment marked by higher interest rates and a cautious private investment market raised the hurdles for deployment.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 16, 2019

The new machinery, which is only the second of its kind in Europe, enables the safe dismantling of compressors from refrigerators and other cooling appliances. Up until now, there has been no capacity to dismantle compressors in the UK and limited capacity in Europe.

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Business Green

MARCH 27, 2020

The European Union has signalled it will not lose sight of its green ambitions as it deals with the immediate priority of fighting the coronavirus pandemic, and that decarbonising the Europe's economy should form a core part of the continent's economic recovery.

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Europe Packaging Policy Investment 101

Business Green

DECEMBER 4, 2020

While it is perfectly reasonable for climate negotiations to be delayed for the world to tackle a global health crisis, the climate and nature crisis itself is not so amenable to delay. It also showed that investing in green sectors returns between £3 and £8 for every £1 committed.

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Investment COP Climate change Health 42

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 27, 2021

In Barcelona, the City Council has developed a camera-based solution attached to lampposts in the Las Ramblas area to ensure public health on beaches and implement crowd control measures to help tackle Covid. Lockdowns have cost Europe €2 billion per day[1], equivalent to the cost of investing in 2 million smart lampposts every day.”

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Energy Monitor Smart Cities Business Energy Monitoring Health 264