GreenTechMedia

FEBRUARY 24, 2020

Anglo American has partnered with Engie to develop the world’s largest hydrogen-powered mine haul truck, which is expected to begin testing this year at a metals mine in South Africa. Brazilian mining giant Vale has gone a step further with a pledge to achieve self-sufficiency in renewable energy by 2030.

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Grist

JULY 20, 2023

Researchers have documented the insects making their homes in higher places that are typically too cool for them, from the tropical highlands of South America to the mountainous but populous regions of eastern Africa. Eighteen million doses of a new malaria vaccine are set to be distributed across Africa in the next two years.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 30, 2020

The name of global environmental charity One Tree Planted seems excessively modest now, as they’ve just finished planting 80,000 trees in Africa. This program fits in with a country-led effort to restore 100 million hectares of land in Africa by 2030. Rwanda got 60,000 new trees, and Kenya got 20,000. million trees. +

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

APAC, starting with China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand as the first region; India, the Russian sub-continent as the second region; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as the third region, and then North and South America as the fourth region.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

The International Energy Agency has estimated that $13.5tr of public and private investment in the global energy sector alone will be required between 2015 and 2030 to meet the Paris Agreement targets. Helping our world-leading offshore wind industry reach 40GW by 2030. In the UK we have shown that green growth is possible.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 3, 2021

Related: 110 countries pledge to end deforestation by 2030 Discussing this topic, the Nature Climate Change study states, “Our results reveal a substantial ‘attribution gap’ as robust levels of evidence for potentially attributable impacts are twice as prevalent in high-income than in low-income countries.”

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

Renewables capacity in Europe and North America grew by 57.3GW and 29.1GW, respectively, while Africa added 2.7GW of capacity, delivering a marginal year-on-year increase. Moreover, Oceania saw 5.2GW of new capacity come online and South America continued an upward trend with 18.2GW of capacity added.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

And, in South Africa, Knorr said it had been working alongside WWF with smallholder farmers in drought-struck regions to boost the growth of more sustainable, reslient, indigenous Future 50 Foods crops such as fonio and Bambara groundnuts.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Under the same conditions, people in Africa's tropical regions are projected to lose between three to 41 per cent of their fisheries' yield by the end of the century due to local extinctions of marine fish. Even in a world with low greenhouse gas emissions - warming below 1.6C

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

It's time to stop and reverse deforestation and commit to protecting 30 per cent of our oceans by 2030," she said. "We Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change. We have to accelerate renewable energy and plough forward with energy efficiency measures.

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AGreenLiving

MARCH 2, 2021

And on July 21, Apple committed to become 100 percent carbon neutral across its entire business, supply chain and product life cycle by 2030. It has conducted projects in the United States as well as South America, Central America, Africa, Indonesia, Papua New Guinea and Vanuatu.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 24, 2021

Japan and South Korea, which traditionally financed overseas coal projects, have started to abandon them , and China sees opportunity. Nearly all of the 60 new coal plants planned across Eurasia, South America and Africa — 70 gigawatts of coal power in all — are financed almost exclusively by Chinese banks.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

Speculation is continuing to mount over whether the two high profile summits will be able to proceed as planned, given the worsening coronavirus waves currently afflicting parts of Europe, Asia, Africa, and South America.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

As such, the UK government is said to be working on plans for a new multibillion-pound green development bank that could both directly fund low carbon infrastructure projects across Asia, Africa, and South America, and underwrite private investment.

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Climate 4.0

AUGUST 17, 2022

It’s also said its peak emissions will occur sometime before 2030. Yellow-coded nations, facing moderately difficult challenges, include much of South America, much of Northern Europe, Taiwan, and Tanzania, among others. Carbon Neutrality, Sometime in the Future China’s government has pledged carbon neutrality by 2060.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Prior to his current role, Babatunde worked as a consultant at the World Bank Group, researching the effects of import duties and VAT on solar products in West Africa. Babatunde possesses a Ph.D. in Energy and Environmental Policy from the University of Delaware.

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CleanTechnica

JULY 27, 2023

When we think of where lithium comes from, we think of South America (Chile specifically), Australia, and the US a bit — with processing in China, of course. We don’t think of Africa. However, Africa has resources, and the expectation is that the continent will be a much bigger source of lithium by 2030.

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