Smart Energy International

MARCH 27, 2024

Confirmed to attend are representatives from some of the following utilities: Botswana Power Corporation, Cenored, Electricidade de Mozambique (EDM), Electricity Company of Ghana, Lesotho Electricity Company, NAWEC, Transmission Company of Nigeria and ZESCO. Visit our website to get a full list of the confirmed utility attendees.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2021

Calls for world leaders to collaborate to boost poorer countries' resilience to climate change have grown louder in the wake of new findings that underline the devastating impact storms, floods, heat waves, and other climate-related extreme weather events are having on nations across the world.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

In January 2003, Tropical Cyclone Delfina dropped heavy rains over Malawi and Mozambique, causing devastating flooding. According to a new flood mapping tool called the Global Flood Database , between 2000 and 2015, the population exposed to flooding in Malawi and Mozambique increased by 150 to 250 percent.

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Grist

MARCH 14, 2023

Droughts and floods are already intensifying as the world warms, putting solid observational data behind a trend scientists have long predicted and one that’s becoming increasingly visible to ordinary people. So how is climate change making the world both drier and wetter at the same time?

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

It is hoped the free online World Flood Mapping Tool will help all countries but especially those in the global south, where flood risk maps are rare and often badly out of date. The World Flood Mapping Tool could also potentially guide development of agriculture insurance support for persons living and farming at the subsistence level.

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Business Green

DECEMBER 11, 2020

Calls for a moratorium on overseas financing escalated this summer after the UK's overseas credit agency, UK Export Finance, greenlit £994m for a huge gas pipeline in Mozambique that could hike up the country's emission by 10 per cent in the construction phase alone.

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Planet Pulse

FEBRUARY 10, 2022

The National Sustainable Development Fund of Mozambique is using the data to derive validation information for annual monitoring of deforestation, as well as to test the production of their own high-resolution deforestation alerts (Fig 1). Given the frequent revisit, it is especially helpful in the cloudy parts of the country.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 19, 2024

Britons consume four times as many animal products as people in Haiti and ten times as much meat and dairy as those in Mozambique, two countries most affected by climate change worldwide. Defra declined to comment on the content or funding of the adverts, referring DeSmog to the AHDB. The AHDB did not respond to DeSmog’s request for comment.

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Grist

AUGUST 4, 2021

In January 2003, Tropical Cyclone Delfina dropped heavy rains over Malawi and Mozambique, causing devastating flooding. According to a new flood mapping tool called the Global Flood Database , between 2000 and 2015, the population exposed to flooding in Malawi and Mozambique increased by 150 to 250 percent.

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Sea level rise Policy Investment Health 65

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 23, 2022

Presented as essential development tools for the African continent and the world, fossil fuels have demonstrated over more than 50 years of exploitation that they are weapons of mass destruction. Armed conflict on the other side of the world has threatened food security and stability in African countries.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 27, 2019

The World Meteorological Organization's annual " State of the Global Climate " reported a number of climate impacts in 2019. Heatwaves and floods which used to be “once in a century" events are becoming more regular occurrences.Countries ranging from the Bahamas to Japan to Mozambique suffered the effect of devastating tropical cyclones.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

Delays are especially pronounced for projects that were initially targeting full capacity by 2024, including LNG Canada, Mozambique LNG and Golden Pass in the United States.”. The rest of the world remains broadly flat. Trade of gas globally grew in 2021.

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Natural gas Asia South America Africa 52

Business Green

NOVEMBER 9, 2020

Analysis claims UK continues to plough billions of pounds into fossil fuel sector despite government's ambitions of being a world leader on climate action.

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Fossil fuels Government Carbon-neutral Policy 95

AFN Sustainable Protein

MARCH 1, 2023

Sustainable Planet’s biggest project, however, lies in Mozambique, where the startup is teaming up with a fish farmer to grow water lentils in fish ponds, which are subsequently used for fish feed. Water lentil cultivation is not new. Forests have unfortunately had to be cleared, to give room for soybean cultivation.

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Demand Sustainability Africa Startups 83

Business Green

OCTOBER 14, 2020

In July, it provided £900m of loans and guarantees for a gas pipeline project in Mozambique that studies suggest could hike up the country's greenhouse gas emissions by 10 per cent in the construction phase alone. UKEF was considering a request for comment in response to the new report at the time of going to press.

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GreenTechMedia

NOVEMBER 25, 2019

Syrah Resources’ significant Balama project in Mozambique was the first of this new wave of African projects to start up in 2018. Source: Wood Mackenzie Energy Storage Service).

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

In all, the investigation identified five factory-scale poultry companies in as many countries that have received financial support from the International Finance Corporation (IFC, the private-sector lending arm of the World Bank Group), the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development (EBRD), or both since 2003, and that supply chicken to KFC.

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Africa Agriculture Health Investment 88

Planet Pulse

APRIL 22, 2020

As the impacts of climate change and the loss of nature are felt around the world, organizations of all types are under increasing pressures to act and adapt. If some companies and industries fail to adjust to this new world, they will fail to exist.”. This requires a massive reallocation of capital.

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Planet Pulse

DECEMBER 13, 2022

This is a World Bank-funded project in partnership with the Governments of Djibouti, Ethiopia, Kenya and Somalia to support the financial derisking of pastoral livelihoods and include them in livestock value chains in the Horn of Africa (HOA).

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Green Market Oracle

SEPTEMBER 3, 2019

Heavy rainfalls are part of the new normal in a warmer world. Cyclones Idai and Kenneth devastated parts of Mozambique alongside dozens of lower impact events that did not make international news. High sea surface temperatures, drive stronger winds, more evaporation, more atmospheric moisture and more heavy precipitation.

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Sea level rise Global warming Climate change Resilience 40

DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 8, 2021

The official participant list is full of executives and employees from the largest publicly traded oil companies in the world, including Royal Dutch Shell and BP. If world leaders are serious about limiting global temperature rise to 1.5C, they should not allow the big polluters to set the agenda here.”.

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Climate Tech VC

OCTOBER 30, 2023

And once-theoretical policies are translating into real-world actions as the US tries to wrestle away Chinese dominance of critical metals supply chains.    In August, a company called Lithium Americas logged what it expects could be a discovery of one of the world’s largest lithium repositories on the Nevada-Oregon border.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 28, 2021

This huge initiative - which Shell claims will benefit seven million people in Malawi, Zambia, Zimbabwe, Mozambique, Uganda, and Kenya - is expected to generate 60 million carbon credits for the energy giant. Offsetting offers a bridge between where we are now the world we want to reach."

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AGreenLiving

DECEMBER 3, 2021

Pact selects GOTS-certified materials and supports organic farming through Fair Trade, which guarantees fair wages and safe working conditions for providers around the world. Shop Pact on Amazon Camden Rose Play Kitchen Let your child’s imagination blossom in the culinary world with a safe kitchen that’s just their size.

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The Guardian: Energy

OCTOBER 27, 2023

There’s $245bn of gas infrastructure planned in Africa, and gas-rich countries such as Mozambique have faced an onslaught of foreign companies fishing for contracts to extract their gas. But they’ve spent the past few years persuading African countries to increase their gas expansion instead. Continue reading.

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Fossil fuels Africa Natural gas Demand 108

Business Green

FEBRUARY 25, 2022

He stressed that various security crises facing the world "will not change the reality of what is happening every day with respect to our climate", adding that it remained an "international threat for all of us". EIB and Solas Sustainable Energy Fund team up for energy efficiency push. PGE and Orsted advance plans for giant Baltic wind farm.

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Andrew Winston

JANUARY 14, 2020

The list of extreme, tragic, and very costly weather events this year — record heat in Europe, hail in June in Mexico , record floods in Nebraska , endless Australian bush fires , and epic destruction from storms in Mozambique and the Bahamas – was shocking. On March 15, millions marched all over the world.

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The City Fix

MAY 23, 2023

The conclusion of the Global Stocktake at COP28 in Dubai, United Arab Emirates this December will evaluate how much progress the international Paris Agreement on climate change has made in the fight against the climate crisis and what more is needed to.

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Business Green

MAY 16, 2021

Faith investors have long been at the forefront of the global divestment movement and constitute the single-largest source of fossil fuel divestment in the world. We have seen how over 700,000 people in Northern Mozambique have been displaced - many fleeing for their lives in terror from insurgents.

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Charged

FEBRUARY 7, 2023

They crush the ore, then put it through a process called flotation , which separates the graphite from most of the impurities, and that brings it to about a 95% carbon content, and that’s what we acquire from the mining/concentrators on that side of the world. The whole world’s going to be short of graphite?

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

As the world watches, expecting action from world leaders, the question has to be posed: How can COP27 succeed when those responsible for the climate crisis are allowed in? At the start of COP27, UN Secretary General Antonio Guterres said that the world is on the “highway to climate hell.” So much for the “African COP.”

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2021

With renewable energy resources more evenly distributed around the world, the hope is that the net zero economy will result in fewer energy-related geopolitical tensions. Unlike a lot of speculative analysis on this topic in the past, Carbon Tracker's report takes a deep dive into the numbers.

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Business Green

MAY 20, 2022

The new funding will support clean energy programmes in Bangladesh, Brazil, Colombia, Kenya, Mozambique, Nigeria, Pakistan, South Africa, Turkey and Vietnam. The New York Times reported that the announcement had been tied to a gathering this week in Rwanda hosted by the Sustainable Energy for All group.

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Waste Waste Building Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 36

Business Green

NOVEMBER 4, 2020

Current pledges under the treaty are not strong enough to keep the world within 2C global warming limits, let alone 1.5C, and the UK's own target has not been updated since the government legislated to introduce a 2050 net zero target. And will Ministers deliver on all of the 10 key focus areas proposed by the civil society groups?

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 15, 2021

Plus, the brand plants one tree for each game sold, supporting mangrove trees in Madagascar and working toward reforestation in Mozambique and Kenya. I wouldn’t say there’s that level of complexity, but it’s worlds better than instant coffee (yuck!), Succulents are a resilient and popular choice that will brighten up any space.

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Planet Pulse

APRIL 11, 2024

This program has enabled successful forest monitoring and conservation across the world’s tropical forests. Countries like Costa Rica , Cameroon , Mozambique , Tanzania , Cote d’Ivoire , and Ethiopia are witnessing innovative solutions taking root.

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Energy Monitor Innovation Africa Sustainability 128

Planet Pulse

JUNE 28, 2020

FAO supports countries all over the world in their efforts to sustainably manage forests and other ecosystems and natural resources, as well as to achieve their international climate and conservation commitments through the Paris Agreement and Sustainable Development Goals. © FAO/Roberto Cenciarelli. © 2020, Planet Labs Inc. Source: FAO.

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