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Viewpoint: Why toilets should be on the agenda at Davos
As the world’s cities grow, and the extreme weather patterns that accompany climate change take greater hold, innovation in sanitation presents more than great opportunity and must not be relegated to the corporate social responsibility team.
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- WASH
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Press release: The Renewable Power of the Mine
As renewable power integration in the mining sector gathers pace, a Columbia University study identifies financing and conflicting interests among different stakeholders as the remaining biggest roadblocks to wide-spread uptake.
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- Energy
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Why a PG&E Bankruptcy Could Change Climate Calculus
Ever since the 2017 wildfires in northern California’s wine country, the company has repeatedly warned that climate change is raising the risk of catastrophic fires in the state, as frequent drought and invasive, warm-weather pests decimate the state’s forests.
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- Energy, Environment
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- North America
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- climate change
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How emerging tech can counteract climate change
The private sector must increase its efforts and further collaborate on industry-wide solutions to help bridge the gap.
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- Environment, Technology
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Someone wrote a fake letter pretending to be BlackRock CEO Larry Fink and some reporters got duped
A BlackRock spokesman pointed to the company's official Twitter account: "Don't be fooled by imitations...Larry's real CEO letter coming soon," the firm tweeted on Wednesday.
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- Investing
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Sustainable Connectivity: How Biofuels Can Boost Mobile Access, Support Small Farmers – And Fight Climate Change
Mobile connectivity is sweeping through rural Africa and Asia – but it has a major drawback. It’s dependent on cellular towers that often rely either on diesel power, which has economic and ecological costs and limited availability, or solar panels, which require clear, sunny skies. Fortunately, another solution is emerging: bioenergy. John Garrity, Dennis Garrity and James Daniel at the Evergreening Global Alliance explore its positive impact on food security, grid infrastructure and global climate change.
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- Agriculture, Energy, Environment, Technology, Telecommunications
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India sees encouraging rise of green finance
With about 1.2 billion more people expected to live in Asian cities in 35 years, the cities have the potential to attract more than USD 20 trillion in climate-related investments in six key sectors by 2030, according to a recent report by International Finance Corporation.
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- Environment, Finance
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- South Asia
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A Clean Alternative to Fossil Fuels: Could This New Renewable Energy Source Help Solve Climate Change?
The need for climate change solutions is becoming more urgent by the day. But as the recent riots in Paris demonstrated, the public often has limited patience with carbon taxes. What’s needed, says Audun Sommerli Time at NextFuel AB, is a fuel source that can be used in the world’s existing energy infrastructure, without adding CO2 to the atmosphere. NextFuel has developed such a product: A renewable, carbon-negative fuel that’s both affordable and compatible with fossil fuel-based energy plants. He explains why it represents “the world’s best hope for addressing climate change.”
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- Energy
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