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Pulling Hanoi from the pollution precipice

Eco-Business

This will help Vietnam reduce emissions in line with its 2030 air quality goals, while at the same time delivering on its nationally determined contribution to climate mitigation under the Paris Agreement. Education 5. Gender equality 6. Infrastructure 10. Inequality 11.

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The late pope and the Paris Agreement

Eco-Business

But as we prepare to celebrate the 10-year anniversary of the Paris Agreement and hail the importance of continued multilateralism, I think we in the Chinese-language world must remember the vital contribution that Pope Francis made to that deal. Education 5. Gender equality 6. But it speaks to me. That was a huge contribution.

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Startup tackles decarbonizing industrial heat processes

GreenBiz

Skyven Technologies, founded in 2013, is a company with a unique proposition for companies in the industrial sector — a way to save money through decarbonizing. In order to manufacture products, companies in the industry sector must burn fuel, typically natural gas, to create heat. Myisha Majumder. Wed, 09/16/2020 - 01:30.

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We, Sofidel. Our Passions Fuel Our Future

3BL Media

These 13 were read and interpreted by photographer Pietro Paolini, founder of the “TerraProject Photographers” collective and winner of the World Press Photo in 2012 and the Marco Pesaresi Prize for contemporary photography in 2013. The Sofidel Group is one of the leading manufacturers of paper for hygienic and domestic use worldwide.

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China’s PV plants are booming, but is that good news for the fight against climate change?

Renewable Energy World

The factory is only one of many others expected to be constructed in the coming year, as part of China’s globally-leading PV manufacturing scheme. For the past decade and a half, China became the dominant player in the PV manufacturing field, after the sector received critical help from government subsidies back in 2004.

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Analyzing Carbon Offset Markets’ role in our journey to a net-zero world

Carlos Sanchez

In St John River Forest in Maine (US), The Nature Conservancy bought 75,000 hectares from the pulp and paper manufacturer International Paper. Notice that compliance and voluntary carbon markets have interlinked movements, as seen in the 2013 drop in both voluntary and compliance credits. People respond to incentives.”

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Europe’s wood pellet market is worsening environmental racism in the American South

GreenBiz

In 2013, when Enviva Biomass opened a new plant near Belinda Joyner’s community in Northampton County, North Carolina, she already knew what to expect. Other wood pellet companies have flocked to the region, including Drax , a major energy utility in the UK that now manufactures wood pellets in the U.S.