Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

WWF calls on government to set legally-binding target to eradicate both legal and illegal deforestation from UK supply chains. Our poll shows an overwhelming majority of people in the UK want to stop the things they buy and the food they eat from causing deforestation overseas, and the UK government has a duty to respond.".

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Grist

SEPTEMBER 8, 2021

For example, Canada and Central and South America, where oil is costly and carbon-intensive to extract, would have to leave 83 and 73 percent of their oil reserves in the ground, respectively, while the United States would have to leave only 31 percent of its oil reserves undeveloped.

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GreenTechMedia

AUGUST 25, 2020

Many developing countries in Asia , Africa and South America suffer from a combination of poor service and what’s known in the utility industry as “non-technical losses,” which includes customer energy theft and corrupt business practices on the part of utility personnel and government agencies.

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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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Grist

JUNE 7, 2024

Although common among small farmers, particularly across Latin America, Africa, and China, intercropping remains a novelty in much of the world. Take a village in Africa that is suffering with degraded soils, and the farmers are suffering, the community is suffering.

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GreenTechMedia

OCTOBER 21, 2020

That can bring new levels of visibility and efficiency to the complex processes that govern the multi-billion dollar trade in renewable energy certificates (RECs). Other partners are using the same underlying open-source architecture to certify renewable energy credits in Europe, South America, Africa and Asia, he said.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 20, 2022

Over the past several years, it has sped up enlarging its international business layout, and its current scope of business involves in North America, South America, Australia, Europe, Africa, Asia and Oceania. Read more from Shenzhen CLOU.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

The Fairtrade Foundation has called on the UK government to include imported emissions that were generated overseas in the process of meeting UK consumption needs in its carbon targets, in a detailed new report published today.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

In emerging markets where gas prices are regulated, governments passed large tariff increases onto major consumers to partially fund the cost of supplying protected retail customers. LNG export growth in 2022 remains dominated by North America, which accounts for more than 75% of the net increase in global LNG supply.

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Climate 4.0

AUGUST 17, 2022

Carbon Neutrality, Sometime in the Future China’s government has pledged carbon neutrality by 2060. We outline several color-coded tiers, based on a nation’s current emissions output and its perceived ability to address significant change given its socioeconomic conditions and government. The US has pledged carbon neutrality by 2050.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 13, 2022

APAC, starting with China, Japan, Korea, Australia, and New Zealand as the first region; India, the Russian sub-continent as the second region; Europe, the Middle East, and Africa as the third region, and then North and South America as the fourth region. So, why is it important for government to join this day?

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ThinkGeoEnergy

JULY 1, 2024

This helps to attract more private sector capital and lessens the financial burden on governments and NGOs. With geothermal resources remaining untapped in many regions globally, including in Indonesia, Philippines, Japan, Eastern Africa, and North, Central, and South America, there remains huge potential for growth in this sector.

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Climate 4.0

MARCH 28, 2022

The SEC's proposed rule changes regarding corporate reporting of Scope 1 and 2, and under certain circumstances, Scope 3 greenhouse-gas (GHG) emissions, strike a middle ground between the view that strong, relentless government regulation is needed to address climate-change and the view that the market should decide everything.

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DeSmogBlog

JANUARY 3, 2023

Drax already receives over £800 million a year from the UK government to burn these pellets sourced from around the EU and the U.S., Hydrogen fuel gained significant traction as a climate solution in 2022, with governments and industry pledging billions of dollars towards new development projects. Canadian Hydrogen. Global Oilfields.

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DeSmogBlog

NOVEMBER 11, 2022

Filling in For Governments. Sponsorships with governments are also common, sometimes filling holes in funding for arts, education, or cultural programs. In Argentina, for example, TotalEnergies and Pan American Energy are official sponsors of a government-partner music foundation.

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Business Green

JUNE 18, 2020

Many people across the world are looking to governments during this global emergency to provide leadership and clarity to overcome the unprecedented challenges that we are facing. The UK government will fund the best projects and approaches to be deployed globally, and share UK expertise to support others with their own green recovery.

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Charged

MARCH 1, 2024

Since then, we’ve been able to acquire customers all across Europe, but also in Australia, Southeast Asia, the US and Canada, South America. We have Chile and Brazil, and even a few customers in Africa. For example, in the Middle East, the governments in Saudi Arabia, UAE, Dubai, they said we need to electrify much quicker.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 18, 2020

And, in South Africa, Knorr said it had been working alongside WWF with smallholder farmers in drought-struck regions to boost the growth of more sustainable, reslient, indigenous Future 50 Foods crops such as fonio and Bambara groundnuts. Action by individual businesses or consumers isn't enough.

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Smart Energy International

SEPTEMBER 5, 2023

Generally speaking, according to the special working environment of tropical rainforest or dry desert climate in African countries, the requirements for smart water meter will be more strict than in Asia or South America. In Africa, the theft of brass material is inevitable, so a plastic body may be more suitable for water companies.

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Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

Moreover, many of the countries and regions best placed to benefit from a green hydrogen future and to become net exporters of the energy source are those most able to generate cheap, abundant renewable electricity, particularly in Africa, the Middle East, Australia, and South America, according to the report.

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The City Fix

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

Today’s climate change headlines often seem at odds with each other. One day, it’s catastrophic wildfires wreaking havoc around the world; the next, it’s an optimistic piece on the rapid scale-up of solar and wind power. Taken together, such stories.

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EDF + Business

MARCH 1, 2021

Prior to his current role, Babatunde worked as a consultant at the World Bank Group, researching the effects of import duties and VAT on solar products in West Africa. from Harvard, an MPA from the Harvard Kennedy School of Government, and an MBA from the MIT Sloan School of Management (with a Sustainability Certificate).

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AGreenLiving

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. percent. .” She points to two programs that might serve as models for other initiatives.

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Business Green

MARCH 11, 2020

The economic slowdown and travel constraints that are resulting from the coronavirus outbreak are expected to lead to lower emissions this year, but experts have warned any carbon savings will likely prove shortlived as governments seek to stimulate their economies in the coming months. In addition, worldwide some 6.7 million in 2018.

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Business Green

JUNE 8, 2021

UK government to try and build support for new Clean Green Initiative to fund developing world climate projects, but observers warn plan requires proper funding. One government source told the paper that that unless Johnson overruled Chancellor Rishi Sunak there was a risk that the initiative would prove counterproductive.

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Charged

OCTOBER 31, 2024

Global automakers have already been blown out of the once-lucrative Chinese auto market, and secondary markets in places like South America, Southeast Asia and Africa are experiencing a storm surge of cheap Chinese exports. European automakers are experiencing not one, but three major storms emanating from China.

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Business Green

APRIL 21, 2021

The Prime Minister is scheduled to address the opening session of the Climate Leaders Summit, which is being hosted by the Biden administration to coincide with Earth Day and step up pressure on governments around the world to strengthen their national climate action plans ahead of the crucial COP26 Climate Summit in Glasgow this autumn.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

temperature goal agreed by governments. And Nicolette Bartlett, chief impact officer at investor-backed climate disclosure initiative CDP, said the IPCC's stark findings should act as a major catalyst for action among the business and governments in high-emitting economies most responsible for climate change. "In

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Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

So governments issued bonds to get the resources of the citizens to fight wars, but governments actually ended up deeply in debt to the banks. Spain and Portugal had carved up the entire world between themselves in the 16th century, and galleons were importing gold and silver from Latin America every year.

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Grist

MARCH 7, 2022

The hotspots for migration, according to the new report, are in Sub-Saharan Africa, Asia, and South America , though small island nations are disproportionately impacted due to the effects of sea-level rise. When cities grow without that planning, precarious slums fill in the gaps.

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

If the world warms more than 4C by 2100, the number of days with climatically stressful conditions for outdoor workers will increase by up to 250 workdays per year by century's end in some parts of South Asia, tropical sub-Saharan Africa and parts of Central and South America. And it gets worse.

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Grist

MARCH 3, 2022

To adapt to water-borne and food-borne illnesses, the report recommends governments improve access to potable water and protect water and sanitation systems from flooding. What happened with COVID doesn’t raise my confidence level that people are ready to make the kinds of investments we need,” he said.

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DeSmogBlog

APRIL 7, 2021

government under threat of imprisonment. government has failed to protect their human rights by failing to “engage, consult, acknowledge and promote the self-determination” of Kivalina and the Louisiana tribes. “By government has placed these Tribes at existential risk,” the complaint claims. Credit: Suzanne Tennant.

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DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

In South Africa, Ikwezi Coal Mining Company started criminal legal proceedings for intimidation and assault against activist Lucky Shabalala in 2019. With populist governments on the march in Europe (and now in the U.S. And when corporations do hit their targets with SLAPPs, its usually with help from those same governments.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 27, 2024

At the meeting, the UK declared its commitment to the elimination of organic wastes going to landfill by 2028 and to transitioning to a circular economy, with the Department for Food and Rural Affairs convening a group of ministers to galvanise action across the UK Government and kick start economic growth.

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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 Deadly wildfires raged in South America, burning millions of hectares across the Amazon Basin and Chile. Catastrophic flooding killed hundreds in Spain , Africa , and South Asia.

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