Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Research published on 16 September highlights the troubling trend of pockets of funders continuing to finance additional coal-fired generation capacity in South Asia and Sub-Saharan Africa. The world’s 20 least-electrified countries by percentage of population without electricity are all in Sub-Saharan Africa.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 25, 2021

A new partnership aims to deliver solar-powered computers to 10,000 children a year across schools in Madagascar and East Africa. And yet across Sub-Saharan Africa, only 35% of schools have access to electricity, 89% of learners do not have access to household computers and 82% lack internet access. These computers can change lives.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 17, 2024

Matthew Chappell, Regional Nearshore Service Line Director Europe and Africa: This is a fantastic opportunity for our Fugro teams across Europe to deliver critical data acquisition works for Equinor, especially within the pioneering CCUS sector which aligns with our mission to help create a safe and liveable world.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 2, 2022

million to six UK based innovators to work with international partners to tackle plastic related issues in India, Chile, South Africa and Kenya. The competition called for technical innovations to address specific challenges identified by the India Plastics Pact , Chile Plastics Pact , South Africa Plastics Pact and Kenya Plastics Pact.

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 27, 2023

Deriva, which considers itself […] The post POWER Notebook: Deriva Energy Launches; Arizona Gets New Battery Factory; Mini-Grids For Africa, Asia appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 19, 2020

Access to clean water remains a significant problem in Africa, yet smartphones are widespread throughout the continent. Introducing mobile payment to solar-powered water purification units makes “solar Water ATMs” a business opportunity for investors, according to Finnish water technology firm Solar Water Solutions (SWS).

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

Available on Android and KaiOS operating systems, the app is compatible with low-tech and smart handsets, capitalising on the growth of mobile ownership in Sub-Saharan Africa. Through a multichannel campaign in partnership with Havas Africa and JCDecaux, Justdiggit will boost uptake of the app to onboard and activate rural farmers.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 6, 2023

The researchers gathered toilet paper rolls sold in North, South and Central America; Africa; and Western Europe and collected sewage sludge samples from US wastewater treatment plants. So, Timothy Townsend and colleagues wanted to assess this potential input to wastewater systems, and test toilet paper and sewage for these compounds.

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GreenBiz

AUGUST 26, 2020

Much of industry continues to embrace "throwaway living," celebrated in this Life Magazine photograph in 1955. ">. Much of industry continues to embrace “throwaway living,” which was celebrated in this Life Magazine photograph in 1955. . In all this, she finds hope for systemic change toward a circular economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 11, 2024

With multiple drivers for growth in the industrial market, the challenges for water in Africa are more around implementation than technology, says Walid Khoury of water engineering firm Desalytics, as he prepares for Water Africa 2024 in Ghana in June. What are the main challenges for the water market in Africa?

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 18, 2025

My group has worked all over the world in Africa, Europe, Vietnam, India and I dont think we ever measured that level of arsenic. For example, the last pond revealed arsenic levels at nearly 50 parts per million about 1,400 times higher than the benchmark considered ecologically acceptable by the US Environmental Protection Agency.

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POWER Magazine

JULY 18, 2024

South African state-owned utility Eskom has garnered the National Nuclear Regulator’s (NNR’s) approval to continue operating Unit 1 of the 1,860-MW Koeberg Nuclear Power Station for another 20 years, until […] The post South Africa Extends Koeberg Unit 1’s Lifespan, Stands Firm on Nuclear Expansion Plans appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 10, 2021

In October 2019 a pioneering pilot project was carried out on more than 1,000km of transmission mains in the south of Africa using Utilis’ satellite-borne L-band synthetic-aperture radar (SAR) analytics. Marking a likely leak location. The post Tackling leakage from all angles first appeared on Envirotec.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2023

A nuanced appraisal emerges from the 2022 World Air Quality report – compiled by Swiss air quality technology company IQAir – which includes a dismal picture from Africa and the news that only five countries met the WHO limits for PM2.5: Australia, Estonia, Finland, Grenada, Iceland, and New Zealand. It ranked #15 in 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

Dr Fatima Denton, CCAG member and Director of the United Nations University – Institute for Natural Resources in Africa – commented: “Climate interventions are context-specific and must recognise the importance of bringing relevant stakeholders into the room when discussing their feasibility.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 7, 2023

µg/m 3 ), followed by northern Africa (30.1 air pollution in August and September in South America and from June to September in sub-Saharan Africa.” Globally, the annual average PM 2. 5 from 2000 to 2019 was 32.8 The highest PM 2.5 concentrations were distributed in the regions of Eastern Asia (50.0 µg/m 3 ) and Southern Asia (37.2

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 17, 2020

South Africa launches WBE programme. Two sector experts from the Water Research Commission of South Africa, shared details of South Africa’s recently launched national wastewater based epidemiology (WBE) programme for Covid-19. The sewage water curve ‘reacts’ about a week before hospital admission.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 17, 2021

Key examples include countries in Central and Latin America and the Caribbean who depend on US imports, and countries in Asia and Africa who import food from China. The US is shown to be a key source of risk for Honduras, El Salvador, Guatemala, and Mexico, while Thailand exports to a broad array of countries in Asia, Africa and Europe.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 11, 2020

The team successfully tested a minimum viable product in a forest in Germany in May 2020, and has since secured ten letters of intent from forest owners in Germany and Africa. The solution employs solar-powered sensors that use AI to detect gases emitted in the smoldering stage of a wildfire as well as temperature, humidity and air pressure.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 24, 2023

Styled as Egypt’s “Gate to Africa”, it will be made up of separate tourist, residential, industrial and historic sectors. “We Another new city – New Alamein – is one of the most ambitious of Egypt’s smart cities, covering 50,000 acres and with a proposed population of three million.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 15, 2024

Researchers from the University of Bristol and across the world are joining forces this week, in a professed bid to advance early warning systems and disaster preparedness across southern Africa, as climate change worsens. In March, severe drought left millions facing severe food shortages.

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 24, 2023

The majority of new dams proposed across Africa should, therefore, probably never be built, suggests a new study published in Science. Abundant rainfall, massive gorges, enormous waterfalls: the geography of Africa has all the elements for producing electricity from river flow.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 27, 2023

Using satellite data, a team of international researchers quantified the rates of carbon recovery in different forest types and environments across the three largest tropical forests: Amazon, Central Africa and Borneo. The findings demonstrate the important carbon value of conserving recovering forests.

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POWER Magazine

APRIL 16, 2024

A report from a leading wind power trade association said a record 117 GW of new wind energy generation capacity was installed worldwide last year, a 50% increase from the […] The post Group Says Record 117 GW of New Wind Power Generation Installed in 2023 appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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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. Alastair Bovim, Vice President Managed Services Inmarsat Enterprise, commented: “We are delighted to be joining forces with RESOLVE to help support sustainability and bio-diversity in Africa.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2023

It is dwarfed by the total US$7 trillion in subsidies that states, including some of these donors, provide annually to support the fossil fuel industry. ”

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

Established market players such as China and the US accounted for nearly 60 per cent of new installations, however, we see emerging markets in regions such as South East Asia, Latin America and Africa playing an increasingly important role in the years to come, while offshore wind is also becoming a significant growth driver.

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 25, 2023

India’s government has issued an emergency order that extends the operation of coal-fired power plants using imported coal, as the country grapples with a shortage of domestic coal and continued […] The post India Extends Emergency Operation Order for Plants Using Imported Coal appeared first on POWER Magazine.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 5, 2022

One clear finding from this year’s report is that its impact on health disproportionately affects poorer regions, with exposure levels particularly high in cities in parts of Asia, Africa, and Latin America. Vast areas of Africa and Asia, for example, have no monitoring networks at all. Where PM2.5

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 20, 2023

Kathy has led several online programmes with participants from Haiti, Belize, India, Africa, Europe, the U.S., and Puerto Rico, over 65% of them being women.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 23, 2022

Certain regions, such as Saharan Africa and the Middle East for example, hold substantial quantities of non-renewable groundwater supplies that can be extracted in order to maintain water security. In Sub-Saharan Africa, the opportunities offered by the vast aquifers remain largely underexploited.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 17, 2024

This includes outlining bold plans in the next round of Nationally Determined Contributions under the Paris Agreement due next year, and bolstering international cooperation on bringing down high financing costs in emerging and developing economies, which are restraining renewables’ growth in high-potential regions such as Africa and Southeast Asia.

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Greentown Labs

APRIL 27, 2022

Energy Dome is partnering with Ansaldo Energia to bring energy storage facilities to Europe, the Middle East, and Africa. Greentown alum Biobot Analytics was listed as one of Time Magazine’s “Time100 Most Influential Companies of 2022.” Micronic Technologies announced a cooperative R&D agreement with the EPA.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

It also highlights case studies of innovative financial models that have been used, including for the Dogger Bank Wind Farm and associated South Bank Quay in north-east England, the Orca direct air carbon capture and storage plant in Iceland, and community renewable energy projects in South Africa.

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POWER Magazine

OCTOBER 24, 2024

An initiative aimed at connecting more of Africa’s population to the continent’s power grids will use GE Vernova’s GridOS orchestration software.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 12, 2024

There is no one-size-fits-all solution to the problem of Africa’s declining air quality. However, far too little has been done to try and combat the dangerous air quality with just 0.01% of global air pollution funding currently spent in Africa. Cairo, Egypt (image credit: Leshiy985/Shutterstock.com).

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 2, 2021

Andrew qualified as a Chartered Accountant in South Africa and has held senior financial positions in multinational companies in various countries around the world. Ryan originates from Durban, South Africa and attended Rhodes University. He joined Winn & Coales (Denso) Ltd in 2018 as Finance Director.

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