Sustainability Consulting

MARCH 11, 2021

companies are publishing a sustainability report, up from 86% in 2018, and 20% in 2011. · It ranges from 10 percent of GDP in advanced economies to more than 30 percent in South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. S&P Global Trucost found that: · 90 percent of U.S. 53% of revenues of major U.S.

Aviation 59

Aviation Carbon-neutral Climate change Sustainability 59

Unsustainable

OCTOBER 20, 2019

This was certainly true in 2011, when a bitter cold snap impacted four million people and caused losses of 1.5 “Yunnan is suffering from an increasing adverse effect from climate change,” said Ding Yihui, special adviser on climate change at the China Meteorological Administration, to provincial officials. billion yuan (US$225 million).

Climate change 40

Climate change Soil Agriculture Construction 40

Mearth

FEBRUARY 24, 2021

Gox in 2011. The historical past of hacks, fraud and theft involving bitcoin dates back to a minimum of 2011. This episode of “Bitcoin In Asia” hosted Nigerian author Ahyke Otutubuike to debate the state of cryptocurrency in his home country. An instance of such a safety breach occurred with Mt.

Blockchain 40

Blockchain Business Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Building Energy Monitoring 40

Energy Innovation

AUGUST 6, 2021

Figure 2: Modeled past and future carbon dynamics of structurally intact old-growth tropical forests in Africa and Amazonia. Model predictions are in blue (Africa) and brown (Amazon), with solid lines spanning the window when ?75 But why in the Amazon and not in Africa? Source: Hubau et al., Science Advances, 7(27), p.eabe9829.

Africa 72

Africa Carbon Carbon-negative Carbon-neutral 72

Planet Pulse

AUGUST 12, 2024

The authors suggest that “[their] results indicate that the Andes are similar to other tropical forests in that they are acting as aboveground carbon sinks, but the overall relative strength of the Andean carbon sink (1.01% annually) is even stronger than that of mature lowland tropical forests in Amazonia, Africa, or southeast Asia.”

Carbon 116

Carbon Fossil fuels Fashion Agriculture 116

GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 1, 2021

Despite successful counterexamples like Tesla, Nest, Enphase and Silver Spring Networks, those failures, combined with the Great Recession starting in 2008, led to the loss of roughly half of the $25 billion in venture capital invested in the sector from 2006 to 2011, according to Pricewaterhouse Coopers. The Washington D.C.-based

Solar Energy Monitor 130

Solar Energy Monitor Home Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor 130

Mr. Sustainability

OCTOBER 22, 2020

The second camp sees a growing role for fossil fuels as the global population expands and hundreds of millions of people seek to join the energy-intensive middle classes, especially in Asia and Africa. My personal opinion favors the first camp, but I will elaborate on both. Camp 1 – No, Oil will not recover. I have seen the peak”.

Fossil fuels 78

Fossil fuels Carbon-neutral Carbon-negative Demand 78

Grist

APRIL 29, 2020

The virus depicted in the now all-too-prescient 2011 film Contagion was based on Nipah.). Epstein and other researchers have been out in the field, testing bats in Bangladesh and pigs in West Africa, trying to catalog a huge number of viruses in the hopes of preventing a spillover into human populations.

Health 145

Health Asia Government Africa 145

Low Impact

MAY 31, 2020

Wasn’t he trying to develop a new currency to replace the dollar in North Africa? I wrote about this in the Asia Times at the time. They’re going into Africa and hoovering up assets, in the same way that the US did before them. At that point, Gadafi rolled over. I don’t think so. They would have sold the dollar colossally.

Investment 100

Investment Energy Energy Africa 100