Grist

FEBRUARY 19, 2021

For decades, governments of Southeast Asia gave agricultural companies the rights to develop vast swathes of forest, and those companies turned wilderness into plantations as fast as they could. Thousands of acres of forest, and the carbon-dense peat soils beneath, have gone up in flames, clearing the way for rows of oil palm trees.

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Business Green

OCTOBER 7, 2020

The dominant driver of the increase in atmospheric nitrous oxide comes from agriculture, and the growing demand for food and feed for animals will further increase global nitrous oxide emissions," Tian said. There is a conflict between the way we are feeding people and stabilising the climate.".

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Africa Agriculture Asia South America 99

ThinkGeoEnergy

JUNE 4, 2024

GeoMap allows users to explore and rank geothermal development opportunities utilizing factors like state and county boundaries, pollution point sources, transmission lines, heat and electricity demand, regulatory incentives, and techno-economic considerations.

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North America South America Asia Pollution 80

Greentown Labs

JANUARY 4, 2023

While the demand is primarily in Europe and Asia currently, Lignium Energy’s team says that the United States is expected to meaningfully shift from relying on coal to utilizing biomass. “We Many of the most-polluted cities of South America are in Chile, and this is mainly because of the use of wood during the winter.

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Business Green

MAY 18, 2021

Two new reports today warn urgent is needed to eliminate deforestation arising from surging demand for soy. Soy expansion is increasingly encroaching on African savannahs and native grasslands in Central Asia, as well, the report warned.

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Business Green

JANUARY 26, 2021

The results of the poll also reveal significant demand for businesses to do more to tackle the problem, with 35 per cent of respondents believing companies are primarily responsible for ensuring goods sold in the UK do not support the destruction of nature overseas, according to WWF.

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Smart Energy International

FEBRUARY 1, 2022

The strong growth in demand in 2021 was driven by the economic recovery that followed 2020’s lockdowns and a succession of extreme weather events. Supply could not keep up with demand and this, coupled with unexpected outages, led to tight markets and steep price increases.

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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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Fossil fuels Carbon-negative Carbon Natural gas 145

R-Squared Energy

AUGUST 17, 2024

The Review provides a comprehensive picture of supply and demand for major energy sources on a country-level basis. Regional differences are apparent, with North America and Europe as early adopters, while Asia has seen the most growth in recent years. Each year, I write a series of articles covering the Review’s findings.

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Business Green

SEPTEMBER 29, 2020

It comes amid growing concern among consumers about the health and environmental impacts of meat and dairy products, with demand for such products driving deforestation South America and other areas, while livestock itself is also a major greenhouse gas emitted.

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Meat alternatives Retail Sustainability South America 99

GreenTechMedia

JANUARY 8, 2020

Chile's unrest threatened to stymie foreign interest in clean power investments that had helped the country's renewables market become one of the hottest in Latin America, with a compound annual growth rate of 31.5 Chile's economy has been one of the better bets in Latin America in recent years.

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Business Green

MARCH 4, 2022

The rapid expansion of the palm oil industry to meet demand for food, cosmetics, cleaning products, and biofuel is a major driver of deforestation and degradation of tropical forests in Asia and Central and South America.

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South America Asia Biodiversity Sustainability 69

Business Green

AUGUST 16, 2021

Traditionally, they have focused on industry links to deforestation and greenhouse gas emissions, as well as consumer-centred demands to eat less meat, which has been a major contributor to the rise of green veganism in Western countries. Charlotte Moore is head of research at the NGO Sigwatch.

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Fossil fuels Agriculture Climate change South America 69

T Rex Group

JANUARY 26, 2022

“Over the last several years, not only has the demand for each of these solutions grown, but the needs they address have converged. With offices in New York, London, Houston, Menlo Park and Mexico City, the firm has committed to more than 200 investments in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

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Investment Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 52

T Rex Group

JANUARY 26, 2022

“Over the last several years, not only has the demand for each of these solutions grown, but the needs they address have converged. With offices in New York, London, Houston, Menlo Park and Mexico City, the firm has committed to more than 200 investments in North America, South America, Europe, Africa, Asia, and Australia.

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Investment Sustainability Business Energy Monitoring Solar Energy Monitor 52

Business Green

SEPTEMBER 22, 2022

The company announced its latest green investments at New York Climate Week, confirming plans for its first project in South America in the form of a solar farm in Brazil, as well as its first solar farms in India and Poland. "We In the Asia-Pacific region, the company now has a total of 57 renewable energy projects.

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South America North America Asia Investment 36

Business Green

MARCH 21, 2023

The performance was driven by significant growth in Asia where 141GW of new capacity was added in China alone, helping to take Asia's total renewables capacity to 1.63TW of capacity. 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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Oceania South America Asia North America 36

Business Green

MAY 19, 2021

The names of these mills - all in South America and Asia Pacific - are public and all produce oil certified by the RSPO. The most successful example of this simplification is in Mars' Asia-Pacific group of businesses, where one mill replaced 780.

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Asia South America Carbon Sustainability 58

AFN Sustainable Protein

JULY 31, 2019

With investor interest sizzling and demand for these burgers surging nationally after Impossible’s deal with Burger King to provide Impossible Whoppers and its $300 million Series E funding round earlier this year, the race has been on to scale up production to keep up expectations and appetites. . Sizzling Demand. restaurants.

Startups 52

Startups South America North America Demand 52

Business Green

FEBRUARY 23, 2021

Given that nearly half of the UK's food comes from overseas, with up to 10-15 per cent from Asia, Africa and South America, we all have a stake in ensuring future generations of farmers who produce our food can do so in climate-friendly ways, while earning enough to stay in business and live the sort of life their hard work deserves.".

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Business Green

FEBRUARY 28, 2022

You can now sign up to attend the virtual Net Zero Finance Summit, which will take place live and interactive on Tuesday 29 March and will be available on demand for delegates after the event. Hoesung Lee, chair of the IPCC, said the findings were a "dire warning" about the consequences of inaction on climate change.

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Climate change Global warming Resilience Sea level rise 68

DeSmogBlog

JULY 18, 2021

A 2020 study by researchers from the University of Alberta warned that scaling up livestock grazing to meet future food demand could threaten the biodiversity of herbivores and pollinators worldwide. per capita per day in Africa, 77.57g in Asia, 86.09g in South America, and 102.06g in Europe.

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Agriculture Climate change Methane Soil 98

Business Green

FEBRUARY 27, 2022

Everywhere is being impacted, but parts of Africa, Asia, Central and South America, the Arctic regions, and small island states are at particular risk. Want to find out more about how the net zero transition will impact your business?

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Resilience Climate change Africa Sea level rise 50

Eco-Business

NOVEMBER 4, 2019

The demand for IT products that have been manufactured in a fair and environmentally sustainable way is growing, but many sustainability issues in the IT industry are difficult to solve. The study includes 20 factories in Asia and South America, that have been audited twice during the time period 2015-2018.

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South America Sustainability Asia Health 8

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.

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Global warming Climate change Resilience Government 101

Business Green

JANUARY 17, 2022

While in the short term growing demand for hydrogen - particularly green hydrogen - risks exceeding production capacity, the world's technical potential for hydrogen production actually significantly exceeds demand in the longer term, it adds.

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Hydrogen Fossil fuels Energy Energy 83

DeSmogBlog

DECEMBER 17, 2024

The Global Impact of SLAPPs In Southeast Asia, Africa, and Latin America, SLAPPs mostly target environmental activism against extractive industries like mining companies and the agricultural sector, according to a 2020 report by the International Center for Not-for-Profit Law.

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Fossil fuels Law Europe Organic 141

Low Impact

JUNE 6, 2021

The first non-Chinese ‘pre-coins’ (ingots) appeared in Asia Minor before 2000 BCE. The Hawala system was born in India in the 8th century and was used to transfer payments between south and east Asia and the Middle East for goods that were moved along the Silk Road. The ingots got smaller, got stamped, got rounder etc.

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Government Europe Law Asia 110

Climate Tech VC

JANUARY 17, 2025

Source: Sightline Climate Will energy demand forecasted from data centers increase or decrease? AI and “the electrification of everything” drove up demand for energy, especially reliable, 24/7 clean energy in 2024. Here’s what you expect about a select few markets. Outcome: Wrong.

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Business Green

MARCH 3, 2023

Our solutions are perfectly suited for demanding applications where operational reliability, high power density and compact format are important parameters. Starting next year, the maritime sector will be included in the EU Emissions Trading System, which will increase the demand for net zero, hydrogen-powered solutions."

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Hydrogen Electric vehicle Investment South America 41