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How to stop runaway deforestation? Look at Indonesia.

Grist

For decades, governments of Southeast Asia gave agricultural companies the rights to develop vast swathes of forest, and those companies turned wilderness into plantations as fast as they could. In 2011, the government of Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono announced that it would stop handing out forest land for palm oil plantations.

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From Fukushima to SMRs: How Nuclear Power is Evolving Globally

R-Squared Energy

In Japan, nuclear output rose by nearly 50% in 2023 as the country gradually brought reactors back online following the 2011 Fukushima incident. Japan’s nuclear power generation grew steadily until the 2011 Fukushima disaster caused a sharp decline, though it has partially recovered since. Meanwhile, nuclear output in the U.S.

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'More emissions than Exxon': Is meat the next target for divestment?

Business Green

Direct targeting of oil and gas companies, consistently high since 2011, drove a surge in campaigns from 2019 onwards calling for investors to divest initially from coal, followed by ‘dirty' oil and gas like oil sands, then finally all fossil fuels.

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Impossible Foods teams up with OSI to ramp up production in busy week for plant-based meat

AFN Sustainable Protein

Since launching in Singapore in March 2019, sales have more than quadrupled in Asia. Founded in 2011 by Stanford biochemistry professor and former pediatrician Dr. Patrick O. Since its founding in 2011, the industry-leading food-tech startup has raised more than $750 million. restaurants. Healthy Rivalry.

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We want to deliver a green recovery in partnership with business and finance

Business Green

Since 2011, the UK's international climate finance has already supported over 100 countries and helped to reduce or avoid a total of 16 million tonnes of greenhouse gas emissions, which is equivalent of taking 3.3 This, in turn, will mobilise further finance from public and private sources. million passenger vehicles off the road for a year.