Impact Alpha

NOVEMBER 14, 2022

The post Philanthropic organizations commit $500 million for energy transition in developing countries appeared first on ImpactAlpha. ImpactAlpha, November 14 — A three-year commitment by nine philanthropies will support energy transition projects by low- and middle-income countries and their partners.

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AFN Sustainable Protein

SEPTEMBER 21, 2022

Nutrition Technologies’ closed-loop system uses proprietary growth inoculants and black soldier flies to convert organic waste into proteins and oils that can enrich animal feed and bio-fertilizers. The company currently offers three products: a high-protein ingredient, an organic fertilizer and an oil ingredient.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 6, 2023

The researchers have examined the levels of antibiotic residues that are likely to contribute to antibiotic resistance from different aquatic sources in the Western Pacific Region (WPR) and the South-East Asia Region (SEAR), regions as defined by the World Health Organization. The researchers declare no competing interests.

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Health Asia Organic 259

GreenBiz

FEBRUARY 8, 2021

It ranges from 10 percent of GDP in advanced economies to more than 30 percent in South Asia and the Middle East and North Africa. . Companies are showing a growing awareness that good social performance can translate into improved business performance and better relationships with customers and local communities.

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Planet Pulse

JULY 17, 2023

More information about this project and other ways governments and organizations around the world are using digital agriculture to enhance rice cultivation and mitigate food insecurity can be found here.

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Asia Agriculture Government Organic 98

GreenBiz

SEPTEMBER 21, 2020

No longer is it necessary for nuns organized through the Sisters of St. These organizations — including BlackRock, BNP Paribas Asset Management, CalPERS and UBS Asset Management — generally have no difficulty in meeting with CEOs or, more recently, obtaining increasingly large support for the shareholder resolutions they support.

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Investment Climate change Ethics Government 459

Grist

JANUARY 13, 2025

In a body of recently published and forthcoming research, Jensen examined the antimicrobial effects of wood ants, a European field ant known for building dome-shaped nests in fields and open woodlands, and weaver ants, which live in ball-shaped nests within tropical tree canopies across Asia, Africa, and Australia.

Agriculture 139

Agriculture Climate change North America Europe 139

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

Long-term exposure to arsenic in water used for drinking, food preparation or irrigation of crops can cause a range of health issues affecting every organ in the body, such as cancer, diabetes and pulmonary and cardiovascular diseases.

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Asia Health Africa Sustainability 200

GreenBiz

JANUARY 14, 2021

Several countries in Asia, including China, the world’s largest chemical producer, have developed national chemical regulatory programs strongly influenced by the EU’s design. The EU chemical regulation footprint is also strong in the rest of the world. will look closely at the potential for adopting elements of the new EU programs.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2023

The region of Central and South Asia was home to eight of the world’s ten cities with the worst air pollution. Bangladesh (65.8 µg/m 3 ) more than 13 times higher than the WHO PM2.5 annual guideline. A total of 118 (90%) out of 131 countries and regions exceeded the WHO annual PM2.5 guideline value of 5 µg/m 3.

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GreenBiz

JANUARY 19, 2021

Connelly comes to the growing organization by way of the International Living Future Institute (ILFI), which he helped expand into the world's leading proponent of regenerative, healthy and equitable building design — managing its Green Building Challenge and Living Product Challenge before serving as VP of projects and strategic growth.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 10, 2022

Conversely, the domestic and livestock sectors drive organic and pathogen pollution worldwide”, Jones remarks. This is especially the case for developing countries, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa and South Asia”, Jones explains. The authors extended their focus beyond just past and current water quality. Difficult puzzle.

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Pollution Asia Africa Climate change 213

GreenBiz

JULY 15, 2020

A few tech companies are working to grow clean hydrogen in Europe and Asia and, lately, California. Combined with a push for decarbonization, these economics could drive demand, project energy experts. . Technology & Investment Solutions is among those doing research for California.

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Demand Hydrogen Technology Energy 508

GreenBiz

JANUARY 20, 2021

I participated in a recent industry summit organized by Cathay Financial Holdings, where senior executives met with high-level government officials and scholars to discuss the latest trends.

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Investment Sustainability Carbon-neutral Government 442

The City Fix

MARCH 24, 2023

About two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050. While cities are hubs of innovation and opportunity, the increasing pace of urbanization also exacerbates inequality, stresses infrastructure, and fuels climate change, air pollution and other environmental problems.

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Organic Climate change Sustainability Pollution 98

Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The technology can help textile manufacturers meet the many strict discharge consent limits with respect to organics in the form of COD, colour and specific hazardous chemicals such as Nonylphenols. Rather than dosing wastewater with chemicals, the water percolates through a carbon-based media which the organic pollutants ‘stick’ to.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 8, 2022

The South Wales-based plant’s commissioning marks the next phase of the innovative VAMOS (Value Added Materials from Organic Waste Sugars) project, set up to examine the feasibility of innovative resource recovery techniques to use municipal waste as a raw material feedstock for the circular and bio-based economy.

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Waste Waste Biotech Biotechnology 245

GreenBiz

MAY 21, 2021

Losses came in the Atlantic Forest and Cerrado savanna in Brazil, the grasslands of the Northern Great Plains in the United States and, more recently, similar ecoregions in Central Asia and Africa. That’s surely part of the reason why only nine of the 22 traders replied.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 8, 2024

Daisuke Kato, Head of the Acceleration Group at Shimizu’s NOVARE facility, said: “Our focus on sustainability is strong, especially in Southeast Asia where we have a long history in construction. It was inspiring to see so many UK tech companies aligned with our goals for a sustainable future in Asia Pacific.” The pitch group.

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Charged

DECEMBER 13, 2021

According to NOVONIX, “The new facility will play a key role in building a Canadian battery materials supply chain, limiting the current dependence on Asia and capitalizing on the tremendous growth in this sector created by the increased demand for electric vehicles and grid energy storage.”.

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Investment Asia Lithium Electric vehicle 119

Smart Energy International

DECEMBER 5, 2023

STSA participated in Enlit Asia 2023, the premier regional event that united the entire power and energy value chain on a single platform preparing for Asia’s energy transition. This year, Enlit Asia 2023 was even more exceptional as it was held in partnership with the 78th Indonesia National Electricity Day.

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Asia Building Energy Monitoring Energy Monitor Organic 52

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 14, 2022

A new study appears to reveal rapid degradation in air quality in megacities in Africa, Asia and the Middle East – as well as increases in urban exposure to air pollutants hazardous to health. of up to 12% for ammonia and up to 11% for reactive volatile organic compounds. The researchers also found 1.5-

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Asia Pollution Africa Health 130

GreenBiz

OCTOBER 7, 2020

Chantelle Ludski is serving as the North America and Asia Pacific COO for the Anthesis Group sustainability consultancy. She comes to the organization as former National Parks Conservation Association northeast regional director. Thought for Food announced Melissa Ong as its Southeast Asia CEO. On the move.

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Solar Energy Monitor Business Energy Monitoring Building Energy Monitoring Sustainability 331

Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 1, 2024

This included Europe, Asia and the US. Solution Arvia is a leading electrochemical oxidation expert and has developed a range of water treatment systems which target persistent organic chemicals such as 1,4-dioxane. Our Ellenox system uses electrochemical oxidation to mineralise organic pollutants.

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Planet Pulse

AUGUST 21, 2023

A conversation with Ben Allard While we’ve explored a number of industries in which satellite data can be used to monitor and verify what we see on the ground based on what we can see from space in this “Getting to Ground-Truth in Asia” series, we now turn to what we believe we may see for the Earth observation industry in the future.

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Asia Education Government Sustainability 52

Envirotec Magazine

MAY 2, 2024

1 Only seven countries and three territories last year met World Health Organization pollution guidelines for fine particulate matter, according to the latest report by Swiss company IQ Air, published in March. The study noted that, In southern and eastern Asia, more than 90% of days had daily PM2.5 µg/m3) and Southern Asia (37.2

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Asia Pollution Energy Monitor Oceania 147

GreenBiz

JUNE 8, 2021

Depending on who’s counting, about half of shrimp is farmed, which in Southeast Asia has been wiping out coast-protecting mangrove trees. Koji mold , the fungus Aspergillus oryzae, has been core to savory foods for millennia throughout Asia. This is just a sampling of the organizations exploring the seafood-analog realm.

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Seafood Startups Meat alternatives Innovation 515

Hydrogen Fuel News

NOVEMBER 18, 2023

According to the World Health Organization, nearly 1.8 A3: Sub-Saharan Africa, Southern Asia, and Eastern Asia are the regions most severely affected by the drinking water crisis. Sources: World Health Organization University of Cambridge Research News billion people lack access to safely managed drinking water services.

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Solar Power Hydrogen Health Asia 117

Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 25, 2024

The signing of the Stockholm Convention on Persistent Organic Pollutants (POPs) in 2001 marked a historic moment, as it was the first global treaty aimed at eliminating or restricting chemicals harmful to human and environmental health.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 9, 2024

North-West Africa (to meet European demand), and the southern Arabian Peninsula (to meet local demand and parts of south Asia). As a result of this, the International Maritime Organization (IMO) committed to decarbonising international shipping in 2018, aiming to halve GHG emissions by 2050.

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South America Demand Transportation Asia 162

Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 18, 2024

But we have limited knowledge of how toxic they are to other organisms in the environment beyond regulatory assessments, writes a group from the University of Copenhagen. So what and how much does it take for peptides to trigger the immune system of other organisms than humans? The situation is different in the European Union.

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Biotechnology Organic Europe South America 147

Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 26, 2024

The national composition of MSW is 50% organic matter, 35% recyclables and 15% landfill refuse. Harmonia, which is located in the state of Rio Grande do Sul in the South region, also features domestic composting, and diverts almost half its organic waste from MSW collection and treatment systems. São Paulo has three sanitary landfills.

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GreenBiz

NOVEMBER 16, 2020

It became clear that one of my primary responsibilities would be to identify and organize all of these existing efforts under a comprehensive, focused strategy. Samsonite operates using a primarily decentralized management structure across its four key regions: North America; Asia; Europe; and Latin America.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 15, 2021

Greenpeace said the decision “disregards the human rights and interests of the people in Fukushima, wider Japan and the Asia-Pacific region.”. An issue that concerns environmentalists is the confusion around tritium, and the failure of data and modelling to explain the impact of organically bound tritium (OBT).

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Energy Monitor Seafood Building Energy Monitoring Government 264

Planet Pulse

JULY 31, 2023

But how do governments and organizations make estimates like these – and how do they know how to quantify them and plan towards these risks? We formally established our presence across Asia and Australia since 2017, with around 40 employees, serving over 130 customers and working with ~40 partners across the continent.

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Asia Organic Government Policy 52

FuelCellsWorks

NOVEMBER 28, 2023

Organic growth of around 30% per year to reach the EUR 400 million mark Adjusted EBITDA margin of over 15% already targeted before 2028 Strong regional expansion into Asia and.

Asia 69

Asia Organic Energy Energy 69

Planet Pulse

SEPTEMBER 7, 2021

Early access users from the Forestry Department of the Food and Agriculture Organization of the United Nations demonstrate the ability to automatically analyze deforestation and land cover changes now that the high-resolution NICFI-Planet data is available in Google Earth Engine’s cloud computing platform.

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Energy Monitor Agriculture Africa Organic 141