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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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. Even South America, in the throes of winter, saw unbelievable heat: A town in the Chilean Andes topped 100 degrees F — another all-time high. The marketing campaign was a lasting success, even a century later.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Even in a world with low greenhouse gas emissions - warming below 1.6C 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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DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

Concerning the meat industry’s argument that some pastures cannot be used for other forms of agriculture, University of Oxford researcher Marco Springmann argues that “if everybody were to make the argument that ‘our pastures are the best and should be used for grazing’, then there would be no way to limit global warming.”

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Mr. Sustainability

DECEMBER 25, 2020

In fact, physics tells us that for every 1 degree Celsius of warming, our atmosphere can hold about seven percent more moisture. As water vapor itself is a potent greenhouse gas, more water vapor in the atmosphere means accelerated global warming. This leads to even more another feedback loop! And it will not only be regional.

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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

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

So yeah, there's a little cheat that we did: we took away the hyper-object of global warming, which is so vast and timeless and slow-moving, and we put in a very concrete event, a comet. This risk increases steeply with rises in global temperature. As McKay put it: "No allegory is a perfect fit. And it gets worse.

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Global warming Climate change Resilience Government 101

DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

In 1987, while in law school at Harvard, Cole traveled to South Africa on a Harvard Human Rights Fellowship and volunteered for the Centre for Applied Legal Studies at Wits University. An avid birder, he first went to South America to visit friends. It gave him energy to go after the big guys.”.

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Climate 4.0

AUGUST 17, 2022

Yellow-coded nations, facing moderately difficult challenges, include much of South America, much of Northern Europe, Taiwan, and Tanzania, among others. The red-coded tier, represent very difficult challenges, includes Japan, South Korea, much of Southeast Asia and Europe (including Germany), and some of South America, among others.

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Grist

NOVEMBER 11, 2024

At the last conference in December 2023, governments agreed to reduce greenhouse gas emissions with the aim of trying to limit global warming to 1.5 Global warming alone can’t account for all the excess heat from these past two years. Catastrophic flooding killed hundreds in Spain , Africa , and South Asia.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

There was limited progress on countries increasing their nationally determined contributions (NDCs), with many still considered to be falling short of what’s necessary to limit global warming to 1.5°C. Including India, small island states, and Australia in this group could create pathways independent of a Trump-led USA or Russia.”

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CleanTechnica

APRIL 29, 2021

From their origin in the Horn of Africa, modern humans extended their reach to the frigid plains of Siberia, the torrid deserts of Australia and the humid jungles of South America, learning to thrive in even the harshest environments. By Jeremy Deaton Few species have proved as adaptable as Homo sapiens.

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