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. 23 of the 27 are in sub-Saharan Africa and MENA.

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Hydrogen Fuel News

JANUARY 3, 2025

De-Risking Green Hydrogen Projects in Chile and South Africa: Unlocking a Sustainable Future Green hydrogen is on track to become a vital component of global decarbonization efforts. Countries like Chile and South Africa face additional challenges. This is where de-risking comes into play.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 3, 2022

Tool designed to provide investors and companies with greater clarity on the climate resilience of physical infrastructure. Engineering consultancy Mott Macdonald and investor body Coalition for Climate Resilient Investment (CCRI) have launched a first-of-its-kind guide on how to evaluate and quantify physical climate risks to infrastructure.

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Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2020

The UK needs a far more holistic approach to flood risk and resilience, argue Sara Mehryar, Viktor Roezer and Swenja Surminski from LSE's Grantham Research Institute on Climate Change and the Environment. This creates a positive narrative for flood resilience as an investment in the future of our communities.

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Business Green

AUGUST 4, 2021

Urgent steps to reduce the risks of water pollution, flooding, and drought are needed right across the world as part of broader measures to increase climate resilience, a major new University of Oxford-led research project has warned. However, Charles argued that "local policies and local investments can make a crucial difference". "It

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 27, 2020

The minigrid funding commitment from international donor organizations is “in the billions,” says Daniel Kitwa, energy access finance advisor at the Africa Minigrid Developers Association (AMDA). billion allocated to sub-Saharan Africa. This requires skills that would command a premium anywhere, and even more so in Africa.

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Business Green

APRIL 23, 2020

WRI warns that flooding could aggravate coronavirus crisis in South and Southeast Asia and Africa, urging for increased investment globally in flood prevention. Otto urged countries seeking to boost economic growth to recover from the crisis to invest in flood resilient infrastructure and nature-based flood prevention solutions.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The report warns that industries that require outdoor and physical labour, such as agriculture and manufacturing, are particularly exposed to escalating climate impacts, and details how emerging economies in Sub-Saharan Africa, South Asia, and South East Asia are particularly exposed to escalating heat-related risks.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In Asia and Africa, building stock is expected to double by 2050. Buildings’ resilience needs to increase to future proof our homes and work spaces. The necessary interventions to reduce the climate impact of existing buildings should be combined with investing in adaptation and resilience measures.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 2, 2021

The group has set a target of unlocking $100bn in public and private capital to improve access to clean power across Africa, Asia, and Latin America. Africa has a $2.3tr investment gap in its core infrastructure which must be addressed," said Ayaan Zainab Adam, CEO Africa Capital Partners.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2021

Climate Services for a Net Zero Resilient World aims to help inform future government climate and net zero policies. This research will be vital to ensure we're making the best possible choices on our journey to net zero, making certain the UK is adaptable and more resilient to the effects of climate change.".

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Business Green

MARCH 21, 2021

Water Aid-led Resilient Water Accelerator launched as UN-backed Race to Zero campaign urges water utilities around the world to commit to net zero emissions. The Prince of Wales has today launched a new initiative geared at fast tracking finance for improving water services in water-stressed regions in Africa and South East Asia.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2021

Leading Fairtrade partners, including top brands such as Ben & Jerry's, M&S, and Waitrose, have pledged to take accountability for their climate impact and work to bolster the climate resilience of global supply chains, following an open letter signed by 1.8 million Fairtrade farmers. Earlier this week, 1.8

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 25, 2022

That is what is needed to foster a team spirit that is resilient, innovative, and exceeds expectations. A successful leader should also embody grit and resilience in their journey. Manoj has played an instrumental role in the technological and economic advancement of mini-grids as a rural energy solution in Asia and Africa.

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Business Green

APRIL 6, 2020

per cent in 2019, with solar and wind making up 90 per cent of new additions, and Asia again dominating the market with 54 per cent of global capacity growth last year. At this challenging time, we are reminded of the importance of building resilience into our economies. Overall, renewables capacity expanded by 7.6

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The City Fix

APRIL 4, 2024

In the crowded slums of Zambia, Africa, members of the Zambia Youth Federation, a social movement of the urban poor, conducted climate change research and presented it in an emotional spoken word poem. Their message let policymakers know how climate.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Business Secretary pushes green finance agenda as he unveils £12m climate fund to support projects Africa, Asia and South America. And, touching on his role as President of the UN climate summit due to take place in Glasgow in November 2021, Sharma said his aim was "to ramp up ambition towards a climate-resilient, zero-carbon economy".

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

Mayors from Latin America, Africa and Asia will be welcoming more than 90% of the new urban inhabitants in the next decade. Governing these ballooning cities is a continuing challenge, not just in terms of urban design and revitalization, but.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

An all you need to know guide for businesses to the IPCC’s guidebook on building climate resilience and adaptation. 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.

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Smart Energy International

OCTOBER 13, 2023

Also from Smart Energy Finances: Series B funding for AI-powered grid analytics Growth financing for AI-based network resilience ACWA closes $14bn in projects in just 12 months Renewable energy and water project developer ACWA Power has announced the closure of projects worth over $14 billion over the last 12 months. Essent has 2.3

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The review itself also pledged to "lead sustained international action to accelerate progress towards net zero emissions by 2050 and build global climate resilience, starting with our presidency of COP26 in 2021 and our International Climate Finance commitment of £11.6bn".

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 19, 2023

These family-owned and often impoverished producers each manage only a few hectares of land, but they provide a third of the world’s food and up to 80 percent of food in Asia and sub-Saharan Africa. Put simply, they are the bulwark against global hunger, yet they have received just 0.3 percent of climate finance.

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 10, 2021

of funding, that aims to help cities across Africa, Asia, and Latin America establish ambitious new net zero strategies. Minister warns that global climate goals at risk if cities lock in new wave of high carbon infrastructure. The UK government has today launched a new Urban Climate Action programme, backed by £27.5m

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

The COVID-19 crisis has shown how deep inequalities make society as a whole more vulnerable – providing important lessons for building resilience in an era of climate change. The people most exposed to the coronavirus pandemic and the resulting economic. Continue reading on TheCityFix.com.

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Grist

AUGUST 28, 2023

Researchers say political stability in rainforest countries plays a major role in ensuring forest protection, which could go a long way towards increasing forest resilience to catastrophic outcomes. In July of this year, deforestation in the Amazon fell by 66 percent, hitting a six-year low.

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Smart Energy International

APRIL 18, 2024

Energy security now encompasses the reliability of renewables, availability and accessibility or critical minerals, and resilience in the face of physical and cyber threats. Within Asia, the energy transition is marked by robust demand driven by economic growth amidst climate threats and challenges to infrastructure resilience.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 30, 2020

The announcement is the latest in a string of new decarbonisation measures across Asia confirmed since China announced in September that it was aiming to deliver net zero emissions by 2060. UN warns Africa climate impacts escalating. billion tons of CO2 emissions over the next decade in the process.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 12, 2021

The announcement, led by 40 members of the Global Cement and Concrete Association (GCCA), marks the biggest global net zero commitment from the carbon-intensive sector to date, and brings together firms from North and South America, Africa, Asia, and Europe.

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Business Green

AUGUST 30, 2021

Mars said it was also working on plans to expand the water risk programmes beyond Mexico to cover an additional six of its manufacturing sites in Asia and Africa "in the near future". Jason Morrison, president of the Pacific Institute and head of the CEO Water Mandate, welcomed Mars' inclusion in the coalition.

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Grist

JULY 23, 2024

Innovea’s goal, she said, is to develop trees that are optimized for a range of production environments — and ultimately give farmers more climate-resilient options. World Coffee Research While McCook believes that new variety development is vital to the quest to make coffee more resilient, he and many other experts argue it’s not a panacea.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

Demand for such products continues to grow rapidly around the world and is widely blamed for fuelling mass deforestation - both legal and illegal - in Asia, Africa, and South America, where forests are frequently cleared to make way for commodity cultivation and production.

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Renewable Energy World

AUGUST 18, 2021

After her time in Madagascar, Su worked extensively in Asia, Africa, and Europe. The thing is, the regulatory compact does not exist and local, resilient, renewable energy is in the public interest. When monopoly utilities go out of their way to squash competition, solar advocates can use antitrust law to secure their rights.

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Business Green

JANUARY 4, 2023

2023 has kicked off with yet more extreme weather records being toppled, further underscoring the need for greater climate resilience. For example, a devastating drought has affected more than 36 million people in East Africa over the past year, pushing many to the brink of famine, while in West Africa 1.3

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Business Green

NOVEMBER 15, 2022

The JETP is modelled on a similar $8.5bn deal agreed with South Africa at the COP26 Summit last year that was also brokered by a group of industrialised nations to help accelerate the transition away from coal power. Similar deals are also currently under discussion with Vietnam, India, and Senegal, according to reports.

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Business Green

AUGUST 5, 2020

"Over the coming decade we will see emerging offshore markets like Japan, Korea, and Vietnam move to full deployment, and see the first offshore turbines installed in a number of new countries in Asia, Latin America and Africa.". But wind remained resilient. Our turbines produced a record amount of electricity.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

Australia's 2018-2019 summer was the hottest ever recorded, while heat records were also broken in France, Germany, and the UK, and Siberia and Alaska saw unusually high levels of fire activity, along with large parts of South East Asia and South America.

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Green Market Oracle

NOVEMBER 30, 2019

In Latin America, Africa, and much of Asia, communities struggle on a daily basis with environmental hazards as varied as land degradation, drought, salinization, and lack of access to fresh drinking water.

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