GreenBiz

DECEMBER 16, 2020

A 2019 report by the environmental group Food and Water Watch found similar results for the East Coast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative — a cap-and-trade program that regulates the power sector. Most of the valley ranks in the upper third of CalEnviroScreen scores and the region has the worst air quality in the nation.

Pollution 432

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Moreover, developing economies where larger numbers of people work outdoors are set to be hit the hardest, with workers plying their trade in tropical and subtropical regions - particularly in Asia, the Middle East, Africa, and the Western Pacific - expected to bear the worst impacts, the study predicts.

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Sea level rise Global warming Climate change Agriculture 68

Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

The region experienced at least four other serious floods in the years between. Tellman said that means there are several countries with high urbanization rates, like Cambodia and Namibia, whose flood risks are probably severely underrepresented by the study. These weren’t isolated events.

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Business Green

AUGUST 18, 2021

The Mekong River flows through Myanmar, Laos, Thailand, Cambodia, Vietnam and China - all highly interconnected for business activity. This is particularly pertinent in regions like the Mekong River Delta where poor governance and infrastructure means some countries are not able to cope with such events. Geopolitical hot spots.

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Climate change Resilience Hydropower Policy 69

Business Green

DECEMBER 9, 2022

We are sharing expertise with countries such as South Africa, Vietnam, Laos, Cambodia and Indonesia to develop network decarbonisation plans. There was a significant increase in the diversity of participation this year, with representation from more countries and regions.

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COP Fossil fuels Africa Policy 36

Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

The region experienced at least four other serious floods in the years between. Tellman said that means that there are several countries with high urbanization rates, like Cambodia and Namibia, whose flood risks are probably severely underrepresented by the study. These weren’t isolated events.

Sea level rise 64

Sea level rise Policy Investment Health 64

Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

Drought aggravated by climate change is hurting coffee growers in the Mekong region, and intensive farming techniques are part of the problem This is the first of Karoline Kan’s two-part series on coffee growing in the Mekong region. In 2016, it caused a state of emergency in the central and southern regions of the country.

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Climate change Soil Agriculture Construction 40

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 20, 2022

Last year, the BHRRC identified that since 2015, at least 149 claims bearing the hallmarks of SLAPPs have been brought against individuals and groups defending human rights and the environment in the region. Another 104 cases were recorded across Asia and the Pacific, mostly in Thailand, Cambodia, and the Philippines.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 8, 2019

Although the sale of insects for human consumption is allowed in Southeast Asian countries like Thailand, Cambodia and Vietnam, the regulatory bodies of more bug-conservative countries, like Singapore, have yet to budge. And every region has different eating cultures and patterns.”. Getting Ento’s crickets to jump over-regulation.

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Renewable Energy World

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

In a 105-page petition, Auxin Solar, a minority- and woman-owned domestic producer of solar modules in San Jose, California, asked Commerce to determine that solar cells and modules assembled in Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, and Cambodia are circumventing and undermining the effectiveness of U.S. trade remedy laws. 15 companies. Allegations.

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Law Investment Asia Energy 88

AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 16, 2020

A 2019 report by the environmental group Food and Water Watch found similar results for the East Coast’s Regional Greenhouse Gas Initiative — a cap-and-trade program that regulates the power sector. Most of the valley ranks in the upper third of CalEnviroScreen scores and the region has the worst air quality in the nation.

Pollution 28

Pollution Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring 28

Unsustainable

JANUARY 27, 2020

The fragmentation of waste management systems is also shown in the Regional Study on Mercury Waste Management in the ASEAN countries , that was published in 2017 and supervised by the International Environmental Technology Centre of the United Nations. The study focuses on the different mercury (i.e.

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Waste Waste Recycling Recycling 52

Planet Pulse

MARCH 2, 2021

In Peru , the Ministry of Environment (MINAM) and the Forest Wildlife Service (SERFOR) are leveraging the data via the UN-REDD Programme to improve its Forest Reference Emission Level (FREL), a key benchmark for its measurement of the Amazon region and reporting to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change.

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