Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 6, 2020

Mt) and Europe (12 Mt), while Africa and Oceania generated 2.9 Other key findings from the Global E-waste Monitor 2020: Proper e-waste management can help mitigate global warming. per cent of global greenhouse gas emissions. Asia and Africa were much lower: 5.6 Mt, followed by the Americas (13.1 Mt and 0.7

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GreenBiz

OCTOBER 26, 2020

This is not because food is more expensive in Africa than it is in the United States. Moreover, to limit global warming to 1.5 In contrast, Nigeria spends over half of its household income on food, followed by nine other countries that spend over 40 percent on food. Au contraire, it is the reverse.

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DeSmogBlog

AUGUST 29, 2024

He also holds shares in Pantheon Resources, a UK company exploring for oil in Alaska, and previously had a stake in the oil prospecting firm Cluff Energy Africa. The International Energy Agency (IEA) has said that new fossil fuel projects are incompatible with limiting global warming to 1.5C – the goal established by the 2015 Paris Agreement.

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Grist

JUNE 13, 2023

Climate change is involved, but natural variations in global weather, and an unfortunate dose of serendipity, are also at play. Global warming itself hasn’t suddenly accelerated this year,” Daniel Swain, a climate scientist at the University of California, Los Angeles, said in a live briefing on Monday.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

They warn that if the trend is left to continue and food production systems are not reformed to cut harmful fertiliser use, the world will fail to meet the goals of the Paris Agreement, established in 2015 to stave off the worst and most devastating impacts of global warming.

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Grist

MARCH 27, 2023

That’s about 95 percent of the amount needed to be removed annually to ensure global warming remains below 1.5 According to the study, keeping global warming below 1.5 In Africa, every increase of 100,000 animals in the Serengeti raises the amount of carbon sequestered by 15 percent. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Renewable Energy World

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

In contrast, if we don’t limit global warming to below 2°C, 5 million fewer energy jobs will be created. According to the new study, many regions will gain energy jobs in the transition, including countries throughout Asia (except for China), North Africa, and the Middle East, as well as the United States and Brazil.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 29, 2023

The past year registered record-shattering global temperatures. degrees C (2 degrees F) of global warming, compared to pre-industrial averages. People around the world are already witnessing epic heat waves, wildfires and drought at 1.1 With current policies putting the world on.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 17, 2023

However only 26 companies have plans to phase out coal – which significantly hampers international efforts to limit global warming to 1.5 Vicky Sins, Decarbonisation and Energy Transformation Lead, said: “We cannot keep 1.5

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 20, 2023

“It’s simply not true that to stop global warming we have to stop using fossil fuels: what we have to do is stop dumping the carbon dioxide they generate into the atmosphere.” “All Kusile Power Station, South Africa: The deal reserves a role for “transitional fuels” – widely interpreted to mean natural gas.

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AGreenLiving

NOVEMBER 13, 2020

Dairy cattle are increasingly suffering from debilitating heat stress due to global warming. The Bill & Melinda Gates Foundation has helped fund this work, hoping to someday introduce these cows to farmers in sub-Saharan Africa. Livestock emit about 14.5% Via Future Human Image via Michael Pujals.

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Grist

FEBRUARY 6, 2023

Insects fared better in the Amazonian region, Africa, Western Australia, and Eastern and Central Europe, while achieving less protected area coverage in North America and South and Southeast Asia. The study also found notable disparities in the proportions of insect species covered by protected areas across different regions of the world.

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Business Green

JANUARY 9, 2023

The detrimental effect of global warming on worker productivity is already having a tangible impact on global labour markets and economic growth, according to a major new report from the London School of Economics' Grantham Research Institute.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 1, 2021

The announcement came as the retailer unveiled an expanded partnership with the Fairtrade Foundation and Fairtrade Africa aimed at supporting communities vulnerable to the growing impacts of climate change in its supply chain. Chris Oluoch, programmes director of Fairtrade Africa, welcomed its expanded partnership with the retailer. "Co-op

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Business Green

DECEMBER 5, 2022

The influential analyst told BusinessGreen earlier this month that its base level scenario will see plastic demand more than double by 2050 as consumption rises among growing middle classes in Africa and Asia. of pre-industrial levels," he said.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 20, 2021

Production Gap report reveals governments still plan to produce more than double the amount of fossil fuels in 2030 than is consistent with limiting global warming to 1.5C.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 19, 2021

In Asia and Africa, building stock is expected to double by 2050. Global material use is expected to more than double by 2060, with a third of this rise attributable to construction materials. “The Some small progress, but not enough.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2021

This land-use change contributes to the climate crisis, but the atlas shows rangelands will also suffer from global warming. million km2) is now used to produce crops.

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EDF + Business

JANUARY 16, 2023

Danone’s size as a major global dairy company provides a significant opportunity for impact. Cutting methane emissions is the most immediate opportunity we have to slow the global warming rate and prevent irreversible damage to the planet. This is a step-change for the food and agriculture sector – and for the planet.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 18, 2021

In Indonesia this number drops to nine per cent; in South Africa six per cent; and in India as low as five per cent. With global warming making some regions uninhabitable during the hot season - particularly for vulnerable populations of elderly citizens and those with chronic diseases - cooling solutions will become essential.

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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. A recent Georgetown University study found them moving upward in sub-Saharan Africa at the rate of 21 feet per year.

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DeSmogBlog

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

Dairy is a serious, but under-discussed source of planet-warming gases. Cows produce methane, a greenhouse gas that absorbs more atmospheric heat than carbon and is currently responsible for 25 percent of all global warming today. But Global North groups dominate. But its problems go well beyond the farm.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 7, 2023

They include Cluff Energy Africa, described as an “early stage oil prospecting company, seeking licences in Africa (Angola and Sierra Leone)”. Spencer’s shareholdings are disclosed to the House of Lords – indicating either a stake worth more than £70,000 or significant control over the company.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

It underlines that, while the severity varies significantly across countries and climate scenarios, worst impacted will be developing countries along the equator that have contributed the least to the current state of global warming and which often rely on reef tourism and fish stocks to sustain local livelihoods and ensure food security.

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Smart Energy International

MARCH 11, 2024

Shading the Sun and other forms of geoengineering are increasingly being mooted to slow the pace of global warming. How solar can keep its place in Europe’s sun Such geoengineering, or ‘engineering’ of the climate, is increasingly being talked about as scientists look for ways to slow or halt global warming.

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Grist

AUGUST 9, 2022

This complexity has resulted in conflicting messages about the role of human-caused global warming in the droughts that have ravaged the American West and the rest of the world. That thirsty atmosphere has been behind most of the studies that have found a clear link between global warming and persistent droughts.

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Renewable Energy World

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

In island n ations that are losing their homes to sea-level rise, and in other highly vulnerable countries, there were bitter pills to swallow after global commitments to cut emissions fell far short of the goal to keep global warming to 1.5 More South Africa deals, please. degrees Celsius (2.7°F). billion from the U.K.,

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DeSmogBlog

MAY 28, 2021

The bank has also committed to achieving its targets in line with the more ambitious Paris Agreement goal of restricting global warming to 1.5C, which is less reliant on negative emissions technology.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

CTL burns some of its CH 4 to produce CO 2 and steam (since CH 4 has 21 times the global warming potential of CO 2 ) and sends the rest to a thermal power plant with which it partners. The Caieiras landfill has a biogas-fueled thermal power plant, where methane (CH 4 ) from decomposing organic matter drives electricity generators.

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

The researchers set out to estimate how much of the world’s fossil fuel reserves must remain in the ground in order to limit global warming to 1.5 Meanwhile, in the Middle East, Africa, and parts of Asia, gas production could increase into the 2030s to help those economies grow before peaking. degrees Celsius (2.7

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Grist

APRIL 8, 2022

But hidden on page 25 of the “Summary for Policymakers” was an even grimmer note: That even in the IPCC’s most optimistic models, the chances of holding global warming to less than 1.5 Small-island states will be teetering on the brink of destruction; heat waves in the Middle East and Africa will be lasting and intense.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 30, 2021

It is estimated that today’s policy ambitions and targets would likely lead to global warming of around 2.7C Dr Fatima Denton, United Nations University – particular expertise in natural resource management, especially in regards to Africa.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

OCTOBER 27, 2022

Global wildlife populations fell 69% between 1970 and 2018, according to the World Wide Fund For Nature (formerly World Wildlife Fund) in its Living Planet Report. Africa recorded significant wildlife and biodiversity loss at 66%; Asia-Pacific noted a 55% loss.

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The City Fix

FEBRUARY 16, 2023

We now have less than seven years to cut emissions in half in order to keep global warming below 1.5 degrees C, the limit scientists say is necessary for averting some of the most dangerous climate impacts. 2022 saw flooding, drought and severe.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2022

Sharma is in Washington DC to attend the Spring Meetings of the World Bank and the IMF where he will attend a series of meetings with finance ministers, including from India, Indonesia, and South Africa, heads of MDBs, and US Climate Envoy John Kerry. The South Africa Just Energy Transition partnership is a great example of this.

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DeSmogBlog

JUNE 12, 2024

The Conservative Party’s ties to organised climate denial go back at least to 2009, when the late Tory peer Nigel Lawson , who was chancellor of the Exchequer under Margaret Thatcher, founded the Global Warming Policy Foundation (GWPF), the UK’s leading climate science denial group. percent (£1.8

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Business Green

DECEMBER 14, 2021

Rising heat and humidity caused by climate change is expected to significantly dampen labour productivity throughout the world, with costs to the global economy potentially reaching up to $1.6tr each year from lost working hours if global warming exceeds levels of around 3C, fresh scientific analysis suggests.

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