Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 9, 2022

Engineers in Nigeria have developed an improved solar cooking system that is designed to replace cooking over fires made with coal, wood, or other materials, according to the study which appeared in Frontiers in Energy Research.

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Defend Our Future

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

A Unified Youth Voice COY, which concluded its 18 th conference yesterday, is a place for young people from around the world to come together before COP and build one cohesive Global Youth Statement. Nick also hosted a panel with advocates from Nigeria, the United Arab Emirates and the Dominican Republic.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

and NO2 pollution, with fine particles seeming to be an affliction of the world’s poorer regions especially, while NO2 is a problem for city dwellers everywhere. the most acute health risks are borne by those breathing in fine particle pollution, and almost everyone today lives in parts of the world where the levels of PM2.5

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

This year saw a record 160 entries from around the world – from Nigeria to New Zealand, Spain to Singapore – all competing for the ten awards. It’s a privilege to have this opportunity to express my admiration and thanks to the winners of all 10 EI Awards.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 26, 2019

As one of sub-Saharan Africa’s largest producers of tomatoes, Nigeria grows up to 1.5 In a bid to provide a solution to post-harvest food waste, a team of Pratt Institute students designed a storage facility for tomato farmers in Nigeria that takes inspiration from the respiratory system of a cricket and the ribs of a cactus.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

Our food system is responsible for a third of global greenhouse gas emissions, yet fails to feed the world, with a tenth of humanity experiencing hunger. The post At COP28, Family Farmers Who Feed the World Went Unheard appeared first on DeSmog. For these communities, climate change is existential.

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Climate 4.0

SEPTEMBER 20, 2021

An announcement in 2019 by the Indonesian President Joko Widodo about relocating its capital from overcrowded, sinking Jakarta (located on what is by far the world's most populous island) to a new location on the much larger, more centrally located, much-less-crowded island of Borneo. A newly announced plan to build a $4.5

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Business Green

OCTOBER 31, 2021

As part of an update on progress against its targets last week, the company confirmed 175 of its suppliers from around the world have now pledged to transition to using renewable energy, including 31 new participants to the initiative from India, Japan, and South Korea, and 50 suppliers from China.

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2021

Water Aid-led Resilient Water Accelerator launched as UN-backed Race to Zero campaign urges water utilities around the world to commit to net zero emissions. The Prince of Wales' emphasised how the Covid-19 pandemic had highlighted the need to improve access to clean water services around the world. "I

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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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GreenTechMedia

DECEMBER 2, 2020

“The world of energy assets is not only about cleaner energy, it is about the fact that people need the energy in the first place,” Gainsborough said in an interview. ” Solar home systems in Nigeria’s COVID recovery plan. It allows consumers to swap expensive diesel power for solar panels and batteries.

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Grist

JULY 17, 2020

The world population is now 7.8 Moreover, if the world met the UN’s sustainable development goals — educating kids, stamping out disease, providing access to contraception, and spreading prosperity — the planet’s population would likely fall even more abruptly. Damned if you do (it), damned if you don’t. billion, up from 3.5

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Pilots of selected projects will then take place in East Africa, with successful projects set to be rolled out across Diageo's smallholder farmer network across Cameroon, Ghana, India, Kenya, Mexico, Nigeria, Tanzania, Turkey, the Seychelles, South Africa, and Uganda, the company said. Even under the 1.5C Even under the 1.5C

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2022

. · Since 2019, the world’s concern over climate change has decreased by 1.5%. Air pollution costs the world $8.1 Air pollution costs the world $8.1 Since 2019 the world has become less concerned about climate change, dropping by 1.5% trillion annually, or 6.1% of global GDP, claiming 6-9 million lives. Climate concerns.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 4, 2021

As a strategic partner and host of its secretariat, the African Development Bank organized the event in collaboration with the World Economic Forum. The session was attended by the co-chairs of the Alliance, Jeanne d’Arc Mujawamariya and Muhammad Mahmood, Ministers of Environment of Rwanda and Nigeria.

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Smart Energy International

JANUARY 19, 2023

Power storage and generation ranks third in the top ten technologies that are considered a strategic priority globally, the World Economic Forum has reported.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 4, 2023

Only UN-accredited individuals – world leaders, country representatives, media and NGOs – are permitted in the area. The UAE is a major producer of oil and gas and has the world’s largest oil expansion plans. He added that fossil fuels should not be phased out “unless you want to take the world back into caves”.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 28, 2023

By Lisa Göldner, Lead Campaigner from Greenpeace Germany for the Fossil Free Revolution campaign France, Nigeria, Finland, South Sudan, Italy, Peru, Romania. The post The World Is Burning, but Fossil Fuel Companies Are Meeting Behind Closed Doors to ‘Future-Proof Gas’. What do all of these places have in common?

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Business Green

AUGUST 19, 2021

It estimates around a billion children around the world are at "extremely high risk" of exposure to climate events such as cyclones, heatwaves or flooding, and that they are particularly vulnerable to these events due to poor essential services, such as water, sanitation and access to healthcare.

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

On the recent World Food Day, the clarion call was clearer than ever: We must fix our food systems to improve human health, drive economic growth and save the planet from environmental collapse. In contrast, Nigeria spends over half of its household income on food, followed by nine other countries that spend over 40 percent on food.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 17, 2020

Ángeles Santamaria, CEO of Iberdrola España, said PPAs would "set the standard for the world's energy future". The firm has already opened two carbon neutral breweries in Austria as well as an on-site biomass installation in Indonesia, an on-site solar installation in Nigeria, and four off-site PPAs in Mexico.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

This was a rhetorical question asked by Abdulaziz bin Salman Al Saud, the Saudi Arabian energy minister, during the opening of the 24th World Petroleum Congress. “Can I ask my Dutch friends to phase out cows?”

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 19, 2021

The charity was set up in 2012 by renowned artist Olafur Eliasson and engineer Frederik Ottesen with the aim of bridging the world's of art, culture, and renewable energy, a collaboration which led to the design and development of the solar-powered lamps.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 12, 2022

The role of Africa in the world’s energy future is changing as efuels are touted as the answer to the current challenges facing traditional energy systems. Jennifer Anya, operations manager, Husk Power Systems, Nigeria says: “The event is going to be packed with world class energy experts, service and product producers.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

The £65m has been earmarked for the world's first large scale Industry Transition Programme, which is being led by the World Bank's Climate Investment Funds and aims to support emissions reduction projects from energy-intensive industries in developing economies such as India and Indonesia.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 9, 2019

Yet despite billions of dollars invested, and the backing of some of the world's biggest energy companies, the off-grid energy sector still has not scaled quite as much many might have expected. The UN launched the Sustainable Development Goals in 2015. Off-grid companies like d-light and Mobisol have been operating for years.

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Climate 4.0

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Russia is the fourth-largest CO2 emitter in the world, and spews out 80% of the per-person emissions of the US, with an economy less than 20% of its per-person size. In China and India, Too Discussion of Russia must lead to discussion of the world's other large CO2 producers.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 19, 2023

So my question for Aragón — who is responsible for developing and protecting the value of Shell’s trademark for licensing to other companies — was this: “Why is it that Shell conceals the impact it has on women, especially women farmers in Nigeria, who have suffered horrendously from oil spills caused by Shell?”

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EDF + Business

NOVEMBER 16, 2021

How an energy entrepreneur is helping to light up the world. The emissions that come from Nigeria into the atmosphere are going to have the same effect on climate change as the emissions here.”. Later, he learned that lack of access to energy is a trap that keeps people in poverty. The climate problem is a global problem,” he says.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Thinking about alternative approaches to power the world has never been more crucial. Africa has the youngest population in the world, with 70 percent of sub-Saharan Africa under age 30. The study focused on five countries: Ethiopia; India; Kenya; Nigeria; and Uganda. What do we need to build a clean energy workforce?

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 1, 2023

As an example, during my visit to Lagos in Nigeria, I witnessed shortcuts and outages caused while attempting to hook on the power line. Nigeria Energy theft and meter tampering are significant issues in Nigeria’s power sector, with losses estimated to be around 30% of total energy generated in the country.

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Solar Sister

JANUARY 25, 2018

We wanted to show the world that these women are not waiting, they are pulling themselves and their communities out of energy poverty. this time from women entrepreneurs in Nigeria. These stories show, as Neha Misra says, that “women are the greatest untapped renewable resource in the world!”

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

COP26 President-designate Alok Sharma today stepped up his eleventh hour diplomatic push ahead of the next month's Climate Summit in Glasgow, travelling to Paris to call on world leaders to deliver on their climate pledges. It must be the forum where we put the world on track to deliver on climate. And that is down to leaders.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 25, 2021

Sure enough, UNICEF ‘s first-ever Children’s Climate Risk Index shows that almost half of the world’s children fall into the extremely high-risk category for facing what UNICEF described in a tweet as “climate shocks.” ” Developing countries tend to have both more children and harsher climate impacts.

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AGreenLiving

SEPTEMBER 16, 2021

These countries include Costa Rica , Ethiopia, Kenya, Morocco, Nepal, Nigeria and the U.K. View post: The world is failing to limit global warming. Behind The Gambia, there are only seven nations deemed “almost sufficient” by the report. degree Celsius goal compatibility.

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Green Market Oracle

JULY 19, 2020

Reclaiming Economics from its small group of narrow interests in profit, growth, greed and destruction – and turning it into something beneficial where all the World flourishes. Virtual visits to farms, gardens and kitchens around the world. The future is in our hands! Can we ever own the Earth?

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 3, 2022

An advertising campaign that claims the upcoming football world cup in Qatar is a "carbon neutral event" has sparked significant criticism from climate campaigners and athletes, who have argued the organisers are misleading consumers by relying on questionable carbon accounting and offsetting practices.

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