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Billions of dollars being used to fund coal power in Africa and Asia

Envirotec Magazine

Research published on 16 September highlights the troubling trend of pockets of funders continuing to finance additional coal-fired generation capacity in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. high-impact countries) to identify those receiving finance for coal-fired power, the sources of this investment, its key drivers and the risks attached.

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More Record Breaking Heat (Winter and Spring 2020)

Green Market Oracle

This surpassed the record set in January 2016 by 0.02°C. The average global land and ocean surface temperature for February 2020 was 1.17 °C above the 20th-century average and the second-highest on record behind 2016. April 2020 tied with 2016 as the warmest April on record worldwide. C above the 20th-century average.

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ESG investments: Exponential potential or surfing one wave?

GreenBiz

By 2016 (and accounting for the rebound from that crash), it stood at about $400 billion. ESG asset managers, closely attuned to climate-related risks, recognized the receding value of first coal, and now, petroleum investments that are in the midst of an historic decline. billion and Total’s cancellation of $9.3

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Fatalities and accidents decline in offshore wind, as safety organisation reviews progress

Envirotec Magazine

For the tenth year in a row, there were no fatalities recorded across G+ member sites in Europe, North America and Asia Pacific. The TRIR, measuring the number of injuries per million hours worked, fell from 3.28 in 2021 to 2.82 in 2022 (down from 5.52 in 2021 to 1.03 in 2022 (down from 1.98

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How effective stakeholder engagement shaped Samsonite’s ESG strategy

GreenBiz

Samsonite first disclosed the state of its environmental, social and governance (ESG) journey with the publication of its first ESG report in 2016, a requirement for the company’s listing on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange. Critical to our success was engaging a wide-ranging group of internal stakeholders and subject matter experts.

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TaniHub Group secures $65.5 million for its agtech platform in Indonesia

Impact Alpha

ImpactAlpha, May 24 — TaniHub Group launched in 2016 to help smallholder farmers in Indonesia reach more customers and grow their income. “There. The post TaniHub Group secures $65.5 million for its agtech platform in Indonesia appeared first on Impact Alpha.

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Global grids investment starting to pick up – IEA

Smart Energy International

Following a decline from 2016 to a little over $300 billion 2019 and 2020, the investment in power grid infrastructure has been steadily increasing, the IEA shows in its latest ‘World Energy Investment’ overview. Similarly, the investment in Africa and Southeast Asia also remained mostly unchanged.