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Private investors profiting from US$25 billion in bond debt from climate-vulnerable Asian nations: IIED

Eco-Business

Ahead of the World Bank's annual meeting, a think tank finds that Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Mongolia, Vietnam and Laos have issued the most in sovereign debt to date in the region.

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Green Tesla embraces carbon-intensive bitcoin

Charged

They estimate that the emissions produced by bitcoin are equivalent to the levels produced by the nations of Jordan and Sri Lanka. Breaking down the emissions to take account of regional differences in the cleanliness of the Chinese electrical grid, the researchers came up with a global footprint for the cryptocurrency of 17.29

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New UN tool maps floods worldwide since 1985, to street level

Envirotec Magazine

And yet remarkably few regions, even in wealthy countries, have useful, up-to-date flood maps because of the cost and difficulty of creating them.”. Layers of Landsat information for a selected region and specified timeframe identifies temporary and permanent water bodies while integrating site-specific elevation and land-use data.

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Power supply challenges leave 350 million with major outages – study

Smart Energy International

Other power outages mentioned by IHS Markit in the report include in Pakistan and rolling blackouts in Sri Lanka. Europe’s reliance on gas sourced from Russia and of China on coal sourced from outside the country resulted in increases in power prices in the two regions in 2021 and in power outages.

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Vast amounts of valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in world’s fast-rising wastewater streams, says study

Envirotec Magazine

Nonetheless, says lead author Manzoor Qadir, Assistant Director of UNU-INWEH, in Hamilton, Canada: “This study offers important insights into the global and regional potential of wastewater as a source of water, nutrients, and energy. ” Pay Drechsel, International Water Management Institute, Sri Lanka.

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Tea diplomacy: Why major tea brands are calling for ambitious climate action at COP26

Business Green

The four biggest tea growing countries are China, India, Kenya, and Sri Lanka, all of which are expected to be hit hard by escalating climate impacts over the coming decades. China and Sri Lanka are also facing similar threats to their tea growing industries.

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20 must-read books about food systems

GreenBiz

The book highlights agrobiodiversity initiatives in Brazil, Kenya, Sri Lanka and Turkey, featuring research from the Biodiversity for Food and Nutrition Project (BFN) of the Alliance of Bioversity International and CIAT. Black Food Geographies: Race, Self-Reliance, and Food Access in Washington, D.C." by Ashanté M.