GreenBiz

AUGUST 10, 2020

From ants to beetle larvae — eaten by tribes in Africa and Australia as part of their subsistence diets — to the popular, crispy-fried locusts and beetles enjoyed in Thailand, it is estimated that insect-eating is practiced regularly by at least 2 billion people worldwide,” FAO said. “I

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 19, 2019

Use of the system in Tanzania, East Africa has already resulted in the arrest of poachers. RESOLVE’s Biodiversity and Wildlife team have developed an innovative end-to-end anti-poaching system; TrailGuard AI. Intel played a critical role in development, providing engineering expertise and other in-kind support.

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GreenBiz

APRIL 9, 2021

New golf course developments in Asia, the Middle East and Africa are incorporating sustainability into the design and implementation phases of their projects. Particularly, Laguna L?ng These things are absolutely vital to the health and wellbeing of future generations, so we all need to do our best to make things better.".

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Business Green

MARCH 1, 2022

A six-fold increase in funding flows from richer nations to poorer nations to support nature protection is needed to help slow the rate of biodiversity loss, charities have warned.

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Impact Alpha

MARCH 15, 2023

The post The Brief: Investing in gap-closing startups, flexible growth capital in Uganda, affordable housing in West Africa, reversing biodiversity loss, deinfluencers appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Featured: Returns on Inclusion Freada and Mitch Kapor write the book on startup investing to close gaps of equity.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 9, 2024

The study, led by researchers at Imperial College London and published in early September in Nature Communications , finds that large gains in conservation are possible by focusing on areas home to exceptional biodiversity and species with high levels of evolutionary distinctiveness and global endangerment.

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DeSmogBlog

OCTOBER 20, 2021

The letter notes that the projects pose immense environmental risks and impacts to biodiversity in Uganda. The post Human Rights and Environmental Organisations Demand The World Bank’s International Finance Corporation Reconsider Supporting ‘Risky’ Major East Africa Oil Project appeared first on DeSmog.

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 20, 2022

Ugandan communities whose lands lie in the pathway of a vast new oil pipeline under development in East Africa have accused French fossil fuel giant TotalEnergies and the Ugandan government of intimidation and poor compensation. The latter consists of six wells located inside the biodiversity-rich Murchison Falls National Park.

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Business Green

JULY 30, 2021

The crucial COP15 UN biodiversity summit in Kunming, China, which had been set to take place in October is now facing yet another delay, with Covid-19 concerns now likely to now push back the critical nature talks into early 2022, according to reports. South Africa calls for global climate adaptation target.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 14, 2021

The study concludes that natural regeneration is a low-cost, nature-based solution for climate change mitigation, biodiversity conservation, and ecosystem restoration. By using such a mix of approaches we can create more natural, biodiverse, and resilient landscapes.”. Forest traits.

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The City Fix

SEPTEMBER 10, 2024

Alexandra Township is a 20-square-block enclave in the heart of Johannesburg, South Africa’s northern suburbs. Established in 1902, the township was built to house 750,000 residents. Today, it is home to more than 1.2 Despite efforts to increase waste.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 11, 2021

While the rate of annual deforestation slowed to about 25 million acres between 2015 and 2020, the trendlines in several regions — especially countries in Africa and South America — aren’t moving in the right direction. Map your sourcing. You can’t do anything if you don’t know where to do it.".

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Grist

JANUARY 17, 2021

The announcement at the One Planet summit, which also saw pledges to invest billions of pounds in the Great Green Wall in Africa and the launch of a new sustainable finance charter called the Terra Carta by Prince Charles, was met with scepticism from some campaigners. And with concerted efforts, we can collectively deliver.”.

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The City Fix

DECEMBER 6, 2023

In the Seychelles archipelago in East Africa, flooding and erosion caused by rising sea levels pose an imminent threat to the country’s many low-lying islands. At the same time its mangrove forests, which serve as a vital buffer against these.

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Impact Alpha

OCTOBER 1, 2020

24: Solar financing for frontline health clinics in Africa and Asia. The post The Brief: Solar financing for frontline health clinics, biodiversity urgency, India’s digital health boom, greening freight, racial justice algorithms (video) appeared first on ImpactAlpha. Greetings, Agents of Impact! The World Bank’s Raihan.

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Ideas 4 Sustainability

JANUARY 7, 2024

Biodiversity loss, land degradation and climate change. To that end, Joern Fischer is the coordinator of a DFG funded research unit entitled “A Social-Ecological Systems Approach to Inform Ecosystem Restoration in Rural Africa”. Not a rosy outlook for 2024… Nevertheless, researchers are tirelessly searching for solutions.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

The problem, according to the researchers of the study, is that when they measured the geographic distribution of insect populations using global biodiversity data and maps of protected areas, they found that 76 percent of insect species were inadequately covered, and more than 1,800 species not covered at all.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 8, 2020

IMARA – IMARA combines ground truth and satellite data to boost land restoration projects to work towards a more sustainable, biodiverse and better balanced world. Geo Gecko – Geo Gecko is an Ugandan company that remotely monitors how Africa changes to enhance decision-making.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 4, 2022

Start-ups and innovators aiming to deploy technologies that can enhance farmers’ resilience to water, climate, and biodiversity impacts invited to apply for funding. Innovators, companies, and start-ups have been invited by the multinational drinks brand to apply for seed funding to develop their technologies before 7 October.

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Green Market Oracle

DECEMBER 29, 2019

The 2020 Biodiversity Conference (COP 15) will take place on October 5, 2020 in Kunming, Yunnan, China. It is also anticipated that the final decision on the post-2020 global biodiversity framework will be taken, together with decisions on related topics including capacity building and resource mobilization.

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Business Green

MAY 27, 2022

In a communique published at the close of a three-day Energy and Environment Ministerial meeting in Berlin this week, the world's largest economies set out their priorities for tackling the intersecting climate, biodiversity, and pollution crises, and responding to the disruption to energy markets wrought by Russia's invasion of Ukraine.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

Their goal is to make rangelands a prominent part of policy discussions around everything from confronting climate change to reducing poverty, managing threats to biodiversity and freshwater, and developing sustainable food systems.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 24, 2021

UK aid from the Biodiverse Landscapes Fund earmarked for six projects in fragile ecosystems around the world. Our Biodiverse Landscapes Fund will invest in six of the most environmentally critical landscapes, spanning 18 countries across the globe, to help to combat climate change and protect rare and endangered species.".

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Africa recorded significant wildlife and biodiversity loss at 66%; Asia-Pacific noted a 55% loss. Links between food systems, forests and biodiversity. The way we produce our food is a big reason for this as well as overall biodiversity loss. Ravenscroft said animal agriculture is the biggest driver of deforestation.

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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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Ideas 4 Sustainability

APRIL 18, 2022

Originally posted on SCIENCE FOR SUSTAINABILITY : Across the globe, human-induced pressures are in large part causing losses in biodiversity. Protected areas (PAs) are key conservation tools, but in the face of biodiversity loss their ecological effectiveness is increasingly contested.

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DeSmogBlog

JULY 19, 2021

Community-based groups and civil society organisations in Uganda and the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) are urging multinational oil companies to keep off a new biodiversity-rich oil exploration block opened in Western Uganda’s region. . They noted: “We are worried over the environmental destruction that follows oil activities in Africa.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 13, 2021

Catherine Nakalembe to discuss how satellite data can provide critical insights for food production and management in Africa. These outputs can now support innovative and bespoke climate-resilient policy solutions for a variety of regions in Africa. .

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Business Green

MARCH 12, 2020

Corporate investment in carbon offsets is helping to fund a project in West Africa that is delivering on multiple Sustainable Development Goals through its protection of precious forest habitats and its services for local communities. The Upper Guinean Forest of West Africa is one of only three forested biodiversity hotspots in Africa.

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AGreenLiving

AUGUST 13, 2021

Dedicated to the advanced study, research and documentation of Africa and the African diaspora in the Arab world, the Africa Institute in Sharjah, United Arab Emirates recently commissioned Adjaye Associates to design a new 343,175-square-foot campus. The campus is scheduled for completion by 2023.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 5, 2021

The editorial, published today in over 230 medical, nursing, and public health journals across the world, demands international coordinated action to limit global temperature increases, restore biodiversity, and protect health. This is an overall environmental crisis.”.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 11, 2020

Water shortages and a decline in pollinators will affect agricultural production levels, trade, and food prices across Eastern and Western Africa, central Asia and parts of South America, the study predicts. The study also estimates economic costs arising from the loss of specific ecosystem services.

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Planet Pulse

OCTOBER 14, 2020

And with more than 80% of the world’s biodiversity under the care of indigenous people and local communities, they are key to understanding, monitoring, and addressing disease transmission. “We Lilian Pintea, JGI’s vice president of Conservation Science.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

They are also home to much of the world’s biodiversity, and regulate key aspects of the carbon cycle. In short, forests are vital in global and national efforts to combat climate change and biodiversity loss, and eradicate hunger and poverty. Around the world, 1.6

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2022

Overall, twenty-six biodiversity projects will enhance, restore and create more than 1,700 acres (690 hectares) of woodlands, grasslands, peatlands and wetlands across every region of England. These birds are summer visitors to the UK and winter in sub-Saharan Africa.

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Business Green

MARCH 17, 2021

The government is to "establish tackling climate change and preserving biodiversity as the UK's number one international priority in the decade ahead". In 2021 and beyond, Her Majesty's Government will make tackling climate change and biodiversity loss its number one international priority," Johnson wrote in the foreword to the report.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

In Africa, every increase of 100,000 animals in the Serengeti raises the amount of carbon sequestered by 15 percent. Convention on Biodiversity, and they don’t talk to each other,” he said. One is trying to save biodiversity, and the other is trying to save the climate.

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