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. In the run-up to this year’s COP28 summit in Dubai, UN Secretary-General Antonio Guterres railed against the scourge of global hunger and climate devastation fuelled by farming.

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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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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The study also found notable disparities in the proportions of insect species covered by protected areas across different regions of the world. Insects fared better in the Amazonian region, Africa, Western Australia, and Eastern and Central Europe, while achieving less protected area coverage in North America and South and Southeast Asia.

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Business Green

APRIL 17, 2024

The headline conclusion is that under a central scenario the global economy could face $38tr a year of climate damages a year by 2050, which would knock 19 per cent off projected per capita incomes. Such impacts are likely to already be locked in, even if the world now moves quickly to curb greenhouse gas emissions.

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Renewable Energy World

DECEMBER 27, 2021

Central to this conundrum is the participation of the region with the highest energy consumption in the world – Asia Pacific. Hydrogen has widely been earmarked as the ‘golden key’ solution to unlocking a future energy supply that is clean, green and efficient. The controversy around blue hydrogen.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

I am profoundly optimistic about the UK's place in the world and our ability to seize the opportunities ahead," Johnson said. And the review stressed the centrality of climate risks to security and development policy across government. Sweeping new strategy aims to place climate action at heart of UK foreign and security policy.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

UN publishes landmark report warning of 'rising hunger, displacement and loss of life owing to extreme temperatures and floods around the world'. We will not fight climate change with a virus," he said, adding that both emergencies "require a determined response - both must be defeated".

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Climate 4.0

OCTOBER 27, 2021

The Spanish language originates in the ashes of the Roman Empire, and today is the primary language of most of South and Central America, some of the Caribbean, Mexico, and about 10% of the United States. This constitutes what I call Spanish World, a rich, culturally deep place of which I have very little knowledge.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 To achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement, countries will likely need to set hard limits on the extraction of fossil fuels in addition to supporting the deployment of clean energy.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

” The World Bank’s International Finance Corp. ” The World Bank’s International Finance Corp. “Metering and billing is a central factor in explaining why these grids are so weak,” he said. Remote minigrids are a tough market for a traditional smart meter vendor. SparkMeter, a Washington, D.C.-based

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Business Green

APRIL 19, 2021

The agreement with Shell allows the lives of some of the poorest communities in the world to be significantly transformed for the long-term," explained Ken Newcombe, C-Quest Capital's CEO and founder. "The Oil and gas giant teams up with C-Quest Capital to supply 'clean and efficient' cookstoves for 1.5 With around 1.5

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2020

Blockchain’s energy sector uses range from the highly speculative—think peer-to-peer energy trading using cryptocurrency raised in initial coin offerings (ICOs)—to more incremental efforts, grounded in real-world challenges of operating an increasingly decentralized power grid. are testing it out.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

UK aid from the Biodiverse Landscapes Fund earmarked for six projects in fragile ecosystems around the world. The projects aim to support activities such as sustainable agricultural practices, promoting natural resource management and strengthening indigenous people's rights to sustainably manage their lands, it explained.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2020

But with carbon emissions out of fashion and growing levels of demand response and distributed renewables on the grid, virtual power plants are stepping in to replace those central generators. The utilities of yesteryear had an obvious solution whenever they needed more power: simply build a new coal- or gas-fired plant. percent up to 2025.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Rising food prices, droughts, commodity shortages, extreme flooding, and coastal erosion will ravage economies around the world if action is not taken to confront the multiple environmental crises facing humanity, according to a new study launched today at the Royal Society in London.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

Climate change is already having “widespread, pervasive impacts” on people everywhere in the world, a new report from the scientific panel says, due to the warming that has occurred so far — roughly 1.09 degrees Celsius (1.96 degrees Fahrenheit) above pre-industrial levels. Some of the things that we’re seeing that were not expected at 1.09

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

Clean water is critical to good health, yet according to the World Health Organisation, 1 in 3 people globally still do not have access to safe drinking water. . · One in three people cannot access clean drinking water. Moringa seed extracts have been used for centuries to help purify water in regions where clean water is not available.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Two separate reports from WWF and Greenpeace have similarly highlighted how soy remains a major driver of deforestation, especially in South America, despite the growing number of pledges from retailers and agri-businesses to develop sustainable soy supply chains.

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AGreenLiving

JANUARY 21, 2020

In fact, the University of Oxford-based publication Our World In Data (OWID) has documented China’s plastic production rate at 60 million tons per year. Via BBC , EcoWatch and Our World In Data (OWID) Image via Lennard Kollossa. Three avenues are currently available for plastic waste disposal: recycling , incinerating or discarding.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 20, 2021

State-owned enterprise Coal India is the largest coal mining company in the world. The coal sector is a major source of revenue for states and the central government. This is the final piece in a three-part series. Read part one here and part two here. It is impossible to ignore the role of coal.

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Smart Energy International

MAY 12, 2022

With its abundance of sunshine, Africa is well placed to establish itself as the hydrogen production centre for the world and plans for commercialising hydrogen and expanding hydrogen production are well underway in countries across the continent. VIEW THE ENLIT AFRICA PROGRAMME. Storage and renewable energy.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

These advances might not matter as much in rain-soaked Europe but in much of Africa, South America, Central and Southeast Asia they are vital to continuity of life. By Ahmed Ashour, CEO of Pylon. Data-driven analytics and their resulting insights are able to deliver massive changes in our ecosystems.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

The IPCC report is genuinely terrifying and Russia's attack on Ukraine has revealed the complacency contained in suggestions worst case climate scenarios can be definitively ruled out - the only good news is that the world knows what needs to be done and has the tools to do it. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 25, 2022

This is the existential question of our times, and answering it will require a departure from existing and simplistic understandings of the world we live in. This is the existential question of our times, and answering it will require a departure from existing and simplistic understandings of the world we live in.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

All around the world industries are vying position themselves as key pillars of the economic recovery from the coronavirus crisis. But few sectors can lay as strong a claim for playing a central and strategic role in any recovery, as the renewables industry in general and the wind power sector in particular.

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Grist

AUGUST 1, 2023

Climate Connections is a collaboration between Grist and the Associated Press that explores how a changing climate is accelerating the spread of infectious diseases around the world, and how mitigation efforts demand a collective, global response. Read more here. Sixty-four people died. percent , three times higher than the typical rate.

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Green Market Oracle

JANUARY 4, 2020

Not all of these murders occurred in central and south America many also took place in Asia, most notably in the Philippines and India. In Brazil a total of 56 defenders were assassinated in 2017 alone. At least eight land defenders were killed in 2018 in the Brazilian state of Para alone.

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DeSmogBlog

MARCH 24, 2023

Now, Ivor van Heerden , the former deputy director of Louisiana State University’s Hurricane Center, is concerned about the disastrous and potentially lethal consequences of a hurricane hitting a liquified natural gas (LNG) export terminal under construction south of New Orleans.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 29, 2022

Recent extreme weather across the globe is showing us how rapidly the climate is changing in an increasingly warming world. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people. The month before, extreme rainfall and floods in South Africa killed more than 400 people.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

From the world’s biggest soccer championship to soccer training for kids , from major universities to music festivals and art galleries to — if you can name it, fossil fuel companies have probably sponsored it. TotalEnergies will sponsor the 2023 Rugby World Cup in France. Capitalizing on Arts and Culture.

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GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 6, 2021

Last March, the Indian government implemented one of the most stringent coronavirus lockdowns in the world. A burning question for India — and the world — is how fast can the use of renewables and related clean energy technologies scale? “Our renewable energy capacity is the fourth largest in the world.

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The Guardian: Energy

APRIL 17, 2024

Pavagada, 100 miles north of Bengaluru in southern India, is the world’s third-largest solar power plant , with 25m panels across a huge 50 sq km site, and a capacity of 2,050MW of clean energy. India has 11 similarly vast solar parks, and plans to install another 39 across 12 states by 2026, a commitment to a greener future.

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Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

As such, palm oil has become a bete noir for environmental campaigners around the world, serving as the target for numerous anti-deforestation campaigns that have drawn a link between forest destruction and the chocolate, biscuits, shampoos, and myriad other consumer goods that contain the commodity. But this commitment was not met.

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AGreenLiving

MAY 21, 2021

The secret life of soy Jim Giles Fri, 05/21/2021 – 00:12 Beef rightly gets attention when we think of the foods destroying South America’s forests, but the second-most important driver of deforestation is less known to people outside of food and agriculture. Except no companies earned either label. I think several factors are at work.

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Business Green

JANUARY 25, 2021

Where once it might have been more commonly associated with schoolchildren on field trips, forestry is now quickly becoming a top priority for some of the biggest companies in the world, albeit on a much larger scale. Tree planting is now a very big deal. Corporate efforts to combat the issue have also largely failed.

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Business Green

JANUARY 24, 2022

Around the world, 2021 saw troops mobilise, violence erupt, and relations between old friends and allies strained. Wars, dragged mercilessly on, and tensions mounted between some of the world's great powers. All around us we saw a fractured and fractious world, as the pandemic continued to cause devastation across the globe.

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Low Impact

APRIL 18, 2021

And some schemes in South Africa too? There are a lot of other problems with conventional money, in terms of how it’s issued and distributed across the world; how it’s extractive; debt is constantly growing. I think you have something like 40,000 trading members, with $2.5 million worth of trade last year. Is that right? Is that right?

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