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Recycling

A Greener Life

MAY 3, 2022

And despite the mounting warnings from experts, India’s big banks appear to be turning a blind eye to climate risk. . Climate scorecard for India’s banks . A recent analysis offers a rare glimpse into how India’s largest commercial banks think about climate change. You’re talking about extremely large banks,” Fernandes says.

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

SEPTEMBER 2, 2021

In what sounds like a tall promise, Indonesia’s state-owned electricity company Perusahaan Listrik Negara said earlier this year it would build only renewable energy plants after 2023. We as citizens have the right to express concern because the government and banks are ignorant.”. First published in China Dialogue.

Air Pollution

HumanNature

MARCH 11, 2024

The Sustainable Development Goals outlined by the UN Foundation in 2015 not only provide a guideline for an ideal future, but also illustrate the multi-pronged dilemma of emerging economies. Developing countries need renewable energy investments of about US$1.7 ” Energy Policy 140 (2020): 111428.

Renewable Energy

Enviromental Defense

NOVEMBER 4, 2021

Yet, new research by Oil Change International and Friends of the Earth US shows that between 2018 and 2020, G20 governments and Multilateral Development Banks (MDBs) still spent at least $188 billion on fossil fuels. times more than G20 support for renewable energy, which averaged $26 billion per year. This was 2.5

Fossil Fuels

A Greener Life

FEBRUARY 17, 2022

Elsewhere, there are other significant commitments to fulfil: to put an end to Chile’s “ sacrifice zones ”, areas of the country impaired by chronic socio-environmental and economic problems; to create a state company to regulate the extraction and use of lithium, and to promote a new model of sustainable development.

Government

Enviromental Defense

DECEMBER 8, 2022

The International Energy Agency is clear that investments in energy efficiency and renewable energy are the solution to the current energy crisis, not investments in new oil and gas. Vanessa Corkal, Senior Policy Advisor, International Institute for Sustainable Development.

Fossil Fuels

Edouard Stenger

JANUARY 10, 2022

This short experience opened a world of opportunities to me and I was able to bank on those few months to work again in that industry, with much smaller biodigesters. My five-month internship as an energy advisor for the healthcare sector taught me so much. My years in Seattle – 2015 / 2018 – were even more interesting.

2007

A Greener Life

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

Despite the worldwide mobilisation towards the adoption of renewable energy, the Brazilian government continues to promote the use of coal, the most polluting fossil fuel. The UN’s climate conference, COP26 , has seen more than 70 countries commit to putting an end to energy sources such as coal by mid-century.

2027

Edouard Stenger

MAY 24, 2017

Part of this revolution is the meteoritic growth of green bonds, which were started in 2007 by the World Bank and the European Investment Bank. Green bonds can be issued by multilateral development banks (MDB) which issued the first ones. Water and Waste make up 14 and six percent, respectively.

Climate Change

A Greener Life

MARCH 2, 2023

By Anders Lorenzen The world invested a record-high amount in renewables in 2022, a report from the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) has found. It revealed that the global investments in renewable energy as well as energy efficiency reached $ 1.3 Photo credit: IRENA.

2022

Energy and Climate Law

FEBRUARY 6, 2020

The JTM endeavours to smoothen these socio-economic turbulences and to “leave no one behind”, which is the motto used by the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) as well. Bn from the EU budget and on a European Investment Bank lending of €10 Bn. The JTF composes the 1 st pillar. It will rely on €1.5 Source: the author.

Fossil Fuels

Vermont Law

APRIL 24, 2019

The disparity between the economies of Pakistan and India is related, in part, to energy infrastructure and policy. While India has forged ahead with renewable energy, corruption, bureaucracy, and poor energy policy have soured Pakistan’s attempt at entering the renewable energy revolution.

2010

HumanNature

JANUARY 20, 2022

In addition, the procurement of renewable energy infrastructure as well as the remediation of out-of-use oil and gas wells provides additional sources of work. Remediation of abandoned well sites has the potential to enhance water quality in the region and renewable energy can decrease the harsh effects of air pollution.

Climate Change

Manning Law

JUNE 8, 2020

These funds should be aligned with pro-nature growth in line with the Sustainable Development Goals, the Paris Agreement and the upcoming global framework on biodiversity. These agreements form the only viable global roadmap to protecting the natural world that sustains us and lifting billions of people out of poverty.

2020

Law Columbia

JANUARY 10, 2019

Finally, the new subdivision cautions that the energy impact analysis is subject to the rule of reason and should focus on energy demand caused by the project. by developing VMT-based thresholds for significance or by creating VMT mitigation banks to offset VMT increases from new development).

Climate Change

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 18, 2023

And meanwhile, climate- vulnerable countries are being forced to contend with impacts they have no choice over—impacts that are also undermining sustainable development goals —because of decisions imposed by richer, major polluters. Ratcheting up climate finance from richer nations.

Fossil Fuels

Union of Concerned Scientists

SEPTEMBER 23, 2024

Reforming international multilateral lending architecture to be fairer and more aligned with climate and sustainable development objectives is also critical. We need domestic policies that explicitly ensure that fossil fuels are being phased down, alongside ramping up renewable energy and energy efficiency.

Fossil Fuels

Environmental Progress

AUGUST 3, 2020

But in Apocalypse Never I show that, for Malthusians, making the world a “better place” has meant letting the poor starve, keeping poor nations dependent on wood fuel, and diverting World Bank funding from dams, roads, and fertilizer for development to charitable endeavors like solar panels for rural villagers aimed at making poverty sustainable.

Fossil Fuels

PA Environment Daily

DECEMBER 26, 2021

Scavello Introduces Bill Authorizing Community Solar Projects; $2 Billion Worth Of Projects Waiting For It To Pass -- Business, Environment, Energy Groups Praise Introduction Of Bipartisan Bills Increasing Solar Energy Mandate From 0.5%

Conservation

Physics World

JUNE 1, 2022

Indeed, they pointed out that glass innovation is accelerating – be it flexible glass that is slimmer than a bank note, bioactive glass that heals flesh wounds, or glass that can vitrify nuclear waste for long-term storage. Glass is also underappreciated in renewable energy and other green technologies.

2015

Circle of Blue

DECEMBER 8, 2021

Brett Walton 2021-08-13 15:37:34 2021-11-29 20:52:34 The Colorado River Basin’s Daunting New Math Amid Dire Colorado River Outlook, States Plan to Tap Their Lake Mead Savings Accounts 1 Comment / June 2, 2021 Arizona and California intend to draw on water they banked in the big reservoir, even as water levels drop. Brett Walton. And the U.S.

2021

Union of Concerned Scientists

DECEMBER 2, 2022

The international meeting yielded no breakthrough on phasing down emissions nor on the unconscionable levels to which banks and asset managers continue to bankroll oil, gas and coal. Five years ago, the World Bank said it would end investments in oil and gas extraction by 2019. Banking against science.

Fossil Fuels