Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Key examples include countries in Central and Latin America and the Caribbean who depend on US imports, and countries in Asia and Africa who import food from China. Climate risk in the rice market appears to be geographically concentrated in Southeast Asia and Latin America.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2024

With multiple drivers for growth in the industrial market, the challenges for water in Africa are more around implementation than technology, says Walid Khoury of water engineering firm Desalytics, as he prepares for Water Africa 2024 in Ghana in June. What are the main challenges for the water market in Africa?

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

White and parboiled rice are more commonly consumed in the West and Asia, and this research found that these types accumulate more arsenic than brown rice when cooked with arsenic-spiked water. People in the UK may only consume around 5kg of rice annually, but the average global consumption is 57kg, and even higher at 85kg across Asia. “In

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This includes outlining bold plans in the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement due next year, and bolstering international cooperation on bringing down high financing costs in emerging and developing economies, which are restraining renewables’ growth in high-potential regions such as Africa and Southeast Asia.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

A new study appears to reveal rapid degradation in air quality in megacities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East – as well as increases in urban exposure to air pollutants hazardous to health. South Asia – Ahmedabad, Bangalore, Chennai, Chittagong, Dhaka, Hyderabad, Karachi, Kolkata, Mumbai, Pune, Surat.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

This is especially the case for developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia”, Jones explains. “Our simulations show that, for a large part of the year, water quality in several regions would still exceed critical thresholds for human uses and ecosystem health. Difficult puzzle.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

Certain regions, such as Saharan Africa and the Middle East for example, hold substantial quantities of non-renewable groundwater supplies that can be extracted in order to maintain water security. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the opportunities offered by the vast aquifers remain largely underexploited.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 9, 2022

Projections suggest this number will continue to rise, particularly in North America, Central Asia, and Africa. People living in flood-prone areas experience the destructive force of floods first hand.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Dubai is surrounded by conflict zones, which block land routes from Europe, Asia and Africa and makes flying there essential. Location of COP Some of the blame for flight emissions must lie with the UN body which decides where COP meetings will be held, the UNFCCC.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Andrew qualified as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa and has held senior financial positions in multinational companies in various countries around the world. Andrew has broad and extensive knowledge in the corrosion prevention industry and is responsible for UK sales and export sales in Europe, the Middle East and Asia.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 13, 2022

Mr Andrew Stuart joined the Winn & Coales International Group in 1990 at Denso South Africa (Pty) as a Production Manager in the factory. In 2015 he moved to the UK to take up the position of Export Sales Director for Europe, the Middle East, and Asia.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 5, 2020

Today, some 380 billion cubic meters (m3 = 1000 litres) of wastewater are produced annually worldwide – five times the amount of water passing over Niagara Falls annually – enough to fill Africa’s Lake Victoria in roughly seven years, Lake Ontario in four, and Lake Geneva in less than three months.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

have reduced in Europe and North America in this period, while levels have increased in Southern Asia, Australia, New Zealand, Latin America and the Caribbean. The study noted that, In southern and eastern Asia, more than 90% of days had daily PM2.5 concentrations were distributed in the regions of Eastern Asia (50.0

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

According to the report, Asia generated the greatest volume of e-waste in 2019, some 24.9 Mt) and Europe (12 Mt), while Africa and Oceania generated 2.9 Asia and Africa were much lower: 5.6 Mt, followed by the Americas (13.1 Mt and 0.7 Mt respectively. In per capita terms, last year’s discarded e-waste averaged 7.3

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

North-West Africa (to meet European demand), and the southern Arabian Peninsula (to meet local demand and parts of south Asia). 90% of the world’s physical goods trade is transported by ships which burn heavy fuel oil and emit toxic pollutants.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 17, 2022

Hardly anything is known to date for Asia or Africa and we see an urgent need for research and action in these geographical areas.” . “This again underscores how little research has been done to date in this area. And: The studies found were conducted primarily in Europe or North America.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 26, 2023

This includes 310 green hydrogen projects and 16 blue hydrogen projects Of the 108 projects set to start producing hydrogen in the next 5 years, Europe is leading the charge with 64 new projects set to come online; Asia 18; Australasia 14; and North America 10; with 1 project for each South America and Africa In terms of GW electricity produced from (..)

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

This story originally appeared in AGU’s Eos Magazine and is republished here as part of Covering Climate Now, a global journalism collaboration strengthening coverage of the climate story. Although fossil fuel extraction jobs will largely disappear, “massive deployment of renewables leads to an overall rise in jobs,” wrote the authors.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Projections to 2050 show that much of sub-Saharan Africa will be unsustainable, with 95% population growth projected, currently 738 million people lack adequate food and all but one country facing extreme water stress. · 23 of the 27 are in sub-Saharan Africa and MENA. billion by 2050, representing 49% of the world’s population.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2020

Ujunwa Ojemeni, Founder of the Africa Women in Energy Development Initiative won the Energy Leader Award. The winners of the EI Awards 2020 are: Access to Energy: InfraCo Asia. Founder of the Africa Women in Energy Development Initiative. For their Philippines Smart Solar Network project. www.infracoasia.com. green-initiative.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 25, 2024

They found that most of the 2020 to 2022 methane surge was a result of inundation events – or flooding events – in equatorial Asia and Africa, which accounted for 43% and 30% of the additional atmospheric methane, respectively. While OH levels did decrease during the period, this decrease only accounted for 28% of the surge.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 19, 2024

A review of press accounts, financial disclosures, and the companies’ websites shows this support aided these firms’ KFC-linked operations in up to 13 countries in Asia, Africa, and Europe. In South Africa, the IFC helped one KFC supplier bolster its operations across the region. The EBRD sold its stake in the company in 2019.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

Specific areas of EDGE species richness include large parts of Southeast Asia and the Indo-Gangetic plain, the Amazon basin and the Atlantic Forest, as well as in Hispaniola, the highlands of Cameroon, and the Eastern Arc mountains of East Africa.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Across Asia, storage hubs and cross-border CCS projects are a major focus and dominant trend, as nations with limited geological storage resources explore opportunities with nations that have large storage resources, to store their CO2.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 21, 2019

There is also significant growth potential in Africa, South America and East Asia. Worldwide substitution of coal and oil, in the Cement Industry now averages 13%, in Europe that figure is 26% and 60% in Germany and Austria respectively. Mr Doherty said; “We’re helping local councils find a positive outcome to their landfill problem.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2022

Other key findings and recommendations include: Regulators need to enact and enforce stricter rules on pollution, particularly in Asia-Pacific, the Middle East and Africa where much of the future growth in chemicals production will come, and where often there is limited oversight and capacity to deal with chemical pollution.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

The World Benchmarking Alliance’s (WBA) latest Electric Utilities Benchmark, 1 developed with CDP and assessing companies across Africa, Asia, Europe, the Middle East, North and Latin America, seems to show that while the sector is making important progress in the low-carbon energy transition, greater speed and scale is urgently needed to meet global (..)

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 20, 2019

This can help optimise the use of this valuable natural resource – which grows around the world, in Asia, Africa, South and Central America – to develop reliable and sustainable infrastructures for safe drinking water across the globe. The neutron reflection instrument D17 at the ILL was used in this study.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2023

Enlit Europe 2022 It is the only exhibition in the industry that gives over 15,000 energy industry professionals and power companies the opportunity to communicate and cooperate at the same time and place, who came from Europe, America, Asia and Africa.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In Asia and Africa, building stock is expected to double by 2050. Efforts to decarbonize the sector played only a small role. With large growth projected in the buildings sector, emissions are set to rise if there is no effort to decarbonize buildings and improve their energy efficiency.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

Growing consumption and demand of commodities has already seen large scale corporate-led land acquisitions for industrial production of cattle, soy and palm oil in Latin America, Africa and Southeast Asia. Between 2001-2015, 27% of forest disturbance was attributed to commodity-driven deforestation.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

It’s a model that can be used throughout Brazil and inspire similar solutions in the other BRICS and developing countries in Latin America, Africa and Asia.” All this would help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and stimulate the low-carbon circular economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Reliable up-to-date information about areas at risk of flooding is especially valuable in Africa and Southeast Asia, where urban areas are expected to grow 80% by 2030. Maximizing the effectiveness of investments in public infrastructure and reducing costs.

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Greenability Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2021

One Tree Planted works on global reforestation efforts in North America, Latin America, Africa and Asia. The post This Valentine’s Day, plant a tree or a forest appeared first on Greenability Magazine. Photo: Don Harder / CC.

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Unsustainable

AUGUST 26, 2019

It’s been three months since this magazine was launched, and – ecologically speaking – things seem to have gone from bad to worse. Greenland is melting 50 years ahead of some expectations. Then there’s the plastic problem. “plague proportions” is a phrase that fails to do it justice.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 19, 2023

Under the relentless sun in Africa, the birthplace of humanity, every living thing had to find a way to beat the heat. And more heat will come, bringing parts of Mexico’s coasts and more of South Asia into the danger zone. In recent years, parts of Pakistan and the Arabian Peninsula have already briefly crossed this scary threshold.

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

With the Northern sea routes available all year, costs for transporting goods (especially from Asia to Europe and the U.S.) Just to give an example, for journeys between Europe and Asia, the Northern Sea Route can already be two to three weeks faster than the Suez Canal. will go down significantly, leading to more economic activity.

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