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Revealed: How Development Banks Underwrote Fast Food’s Global Takeover

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But as major American fast food brands, like KFC, expand into so-called “frontier markets,” taxpayer-funded development banks have made their global expansion possible by underwriting the factory farms that supply them with chicken, a DeSmog investigation has found. as clients.

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UN Global Compact's Marie Morice on where we are with the Sustainable Development Goals

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Global Compact, says that there's strong interests with corporates for the Sustainable Development Goals — often referred to as SDGs — but with many of goals, "we're not there yet.". Marie Morice, head of sustainable finance at the U.N.

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Global Solar Council to develop Solar Training Standards Initiative

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The Global Solar Council (GSC) and Global Wind Organisation (GWO) will develop a set of standards for the world’s solar PV technicians.

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Korkia, Global Consulting Energy to develop 1GW Italy portfolio, including agriPV

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Finnish investor Korkia and solar developer Global Energy Consulting have formed a development company to build up to 1GW solar PV portfolio in Italy.

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Hydrogen Optimized achieves benchmark technology performance in collaboration with renewable energy developer CWP Global

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Hydrogen Optimized, in a collaboration with renewable energy developer CWP Global, recently demonstrated the unique suitability of its patented RuggedCell™ water electrolysis technology to the challenging conditions of large-scale wind and solar-powered hydrogen projects.

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Korean scientists develop an alternative technology for 'SF6', a major culprit of global warming

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Korea Electrotechnology Research Institute (KERI) has developed a world-class "eco-friendly insulating gas" that replaces SF6 (sulfur hexafluoride), the main cause of global warming in the field of electric power equipment, and developed a design technology to make it applicable to ultra-high voltage transmission circuit breakers.

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Canadian Solar Unites Global Energy Development and Services Under Recurrent Energy Brand

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As a global development and services business, Recurrent Energy is one of the world's largest and most geographically diversified utility-scale solar and energy storage project development platforms, with a strong track record of originating, developing, financing, and building nearly 9 GWp of solar and 3 GWh of battery storage power plants across (..)

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