Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 24, 2023

The report incorporated data from more than 30,000 air quality monitoring stations across 7,323 locations in 131 countries, territories, and regions (compared to 6,475 locations in 117 such regions in 2021), which were analyzed by the group’s air quality scientists. Pakistan (70.9 annual guideline Iraq (80.1 Bahrain (66.6

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JANUARY 3, 2023

The summer flood disaster in Pakistan, for example, killed 1,739 people and caused £12bn in damage and a similar amount in economic losses. COP27 marked the importance of rebuilding a stark lack of trust, via the launch of the new fund among vulnerable countries, who, like Pakistan, are bitterly affected by climate change.

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3BL Media

JULY 8, 2022

SUMMARY: Water scarcity and drought affects billions of people, not only in the southern hemisphere but also increasingly in Europe, and North America, and more recently at the beginning of 2022 in India and Pakistan. Livelihoods are also affected in more developed regions of the world. So what can be done to address this problem?

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3BL Media

FEBRUARY 15, 2024

Deploying initiatives via our local and regional DEI Panels Our DEI organisational model involves employees across the organisation at the global, regional, and local level. Across the organisation we have regional and local DEI panels to better drive actions and address issues at the local level and drive accountability.

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Eco-Business

OCTOBER 6, 2023

Ahead of the World Bank's annual meeting, a think tank finds that Sri Lanka, Pakistan, Mongolia, Vietnam and Laos have issued the most in sovereign debt to date in the region.

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3BL Media

AUGUST 12, 2022

Pakistan: Access to clean water for rural communities. H2O (Help-2-Others) Water Wheels enable people in remote, water-scarce communities in Pakistan to roll water from its source rather than carry it on their heads the traditional way – in terracotta pots, which are not only heavy but have a limited capacity.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 12, 2023

KFC operates in the MENA region (UAE, Saudi Arabia, Jordan, Lebanon, Kuwait, Bahrain, Oman, Qatar, Iraq, Egypt, Morocco, and Tunisia), Turkey, Pakistan and Central Asia, with more than 1,400 franchised units.

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3BL Media

MARCH 18, 2022

Piva Bell, who leads the Mercy Corps’ Indonesia response team, described a chaotic scene in a region already beset by multiple climate-related disasters like floods, landslides, and wildfires. Communications kits supplied by Cisco to a regional hub played a big role in enabling it to happen.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 14, 2022

Water Mission is using their in-kind FedEx shipping account to transport water purification systems to the region to support victims of the recent flooding. They have recently sent three systems. Each system can purify 10,000 gallons of water each day.

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Sustainable Development Network

JUNE 26, 2023

In the wake of September 2022’s Transforming Education Summit and the ESD-Net launch, UNESCO has organized sub-regional and regional meetings to convene relevant stakeholders to advise countries in the development and implementation of “country initiatives” to mainstream ESD into national sustainable development efforts.

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Sustainable Development Network

JULY 15, 2020

FM Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Emerges as Regional Leader in SDG Global Ranking , Caspian News Azerbaijan outranks neighbors in UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Index , News.Az FM Azerbaijan Azerbaijan Emerges as Regional Leader in SDG Global Ranking , Caspian News Azerbaijan outranks neighbors in UN’s Sustainable Development Goals Index , News.Az

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Sustainable Development Network

SEPTEMBER 27, 2022

This year’s report shows the growing global role of the SDSN, the world’s leading network of knowledge institutions, and the expansion of the program to 50 national, regional, and thematic networks. SDSN Thailand organized the Thailand Sustainable Development Forum 2022, a series of three multi-stakeholder workshops and consultations.

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Sustainable Development Network

MARCH 3, 2018

Some of the world’s most dynamic economies are in this region; rapid urbanization, and rising economic opportunities have combined to put pressure on terrestrial and marine ecosystems. The meeting participants included several SDSN members, as well as policy makers and thought leaders in the sustainable development space from the region.

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Sustainable Development Network

NOVEMBER 24, 2021

Annual report shows the rapid expansion of the SDSN networks program and the impact of its 47 national, regional and thematic networks. While the overall membership of SDSN has grown by 17% compared to 2020, the number of knowledge institutions joining SDSN networks has almost doubled in certain regions (eg. SDSN Mexico).

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 30, 2023

The Brave Blue World Foundation launched the Lighthouse Awards in 2020 to recognise corporations and utilities that are reducing impact in water stressed regions, including those implementing circular practices, and establishing ambitious targets with tangible timelines.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 12, 2020

The new dataset highlights elevated air pollution levels as a result of climate change events, such as sandstorms and wildfires, and pollution gains from the rapid urbanization of cities, in regions such as Southeast Asia. Five of the top 30 most polluted cities are located in Pakistan. • polluted capital cities.

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3BL Media

MAY 2, 2022

Araí also manages the Millennium Challenge Corporation's (MCC) work in Burkina Faso and MCC’s first regional compact in West Africa, helping the U.S. Since 2017 Tetra Tech has supported successful auctions in Kazakhstan, Mexico, Serbia, Senegal, Pakistan, and India, as well as a previous successful auction in Colombia.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 18, 2023

Eelco van der Enden differentiates the organizations under the ESG landscape Keynote speaker Mr. Eelco van der Enden, the CEO of GRI, highlighted the growing relevance of sustainability in the corporate setting globally, including the ASEAN region. Moderated by GRI Regional Program Manager Ms.

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3BL Media

MARCH 12, 2024

Upheavals of migration My parents migrated from Pakistan, upheaving their entire lives just to educate their daughter. Cisco’s all-female Dream Team received coverage in the national newspapers, industry press , and my local hometown regional newspapers.

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Sustainable Development Network

DECEMBER 12, 2022

From the devastating floods in Pakistan and Nigeria, to severe droughts in East Africa, the impact of climate disasters has long-been disproportionately felt by vulnerable populations, including low-income communities, racial and ethnic minorities, and women and girls. As the African Union Commissioner for Infrastructure and Energy, H.E.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 7, 2024

Advancing Asian opportunities Founded in 1991, Matthews has more than three decades of investment experience in Asia and launched its first dedicated sustainable strategy in the region in 2015. Since then, the manager has continued to build out its investment and analytical resources.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 20, 2023

If anything, the devastating floods in Pakistan and California over the last year should amplify our resolve to hold warming to the minimum possible scope of devastation while simultaneously increasing resilience to those rising risks, whatever their final apex. This year we have organized the ranking by region.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 18, 2023

Asia saw the greatest proportional growth in companies setting science-based targets, with the region witnessing a 127% increase in 2022. Companies with science-based targets represented 40% of the Nikkei index by the end of 2022. China experienced the steepest growth curve with a 194% increase in the number of companies validated.

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Edouard Stenger

AUGUST 21, 2017

In the same region, the largest volcanic region on Earth -with almost a hundred of volcanoes – was very recently uncovered. Last year I blogged about a study mentioning the possiblity for the entire Middle East region – half a billion people – to become unhabitable because of climate change.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 10, 2019

The combination of high mountain snow peaks and glaciers along with the natural biodiversity of these regions make them an irreplaceable part of the global water cycle. South America: South Chile, South Argentina, Negro, La Puna region, North Chile. billion people.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 6, 2019

The combination of high mountain snow peaks and glaciers along with the natural biodiversity of these regions make them an irreplaceable part of the global water cycle. South America: South Chile, South Argentina, Negro, La Puna region, North Chile. billion people.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 23, 2022

Dr. Saeed shares how a new app is transforming female health care in Pakistan, reaching over 1,000 patients every day. They debate technological innovations in healthcare, and why digitalization is core to health improvements around the world.

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3BL Media

DECEMBER 13, 2022

In 2013, at COP19, ‘Loss and Damage, was introduced to address the economic and social losses incurred as a result of climate-related extreme weather events, such as that experienced during the floods in Pakistan and in the Somalian climate emergency and famine disaster. ‘Loss and Damage’ Fund Agreement.

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James Militzer

JANUARY 22, 2024

High fuel costs also strain LMICs financially: The steady rise in these prices has hit citizens hard in recent years, leading to protests in countries such as Nigeria, Indonesia, Pakistan, India and the Philippines. Clearly, change is needed — and electric vehicles present several advantages that a growing number of LMICs are eager to pursue.

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James Militzer

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

For example, data in Nigeria is more than twice as expensive as in Pakistan (see table to the right), which has roughly the same population — around 220 million. However, these are not widely available—and even less so in regional languages. But even efforts like this may not be enough. . Data is expensive across Africa.

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Corporate Knights

FEBRUARY 28, 2023

Instead, less wealthy nations like Pakistan and India have contended with electricity outages on the back of unaffordably high global natural gas prices. In response, many utilities in less developed nations cut their natural gas purchases , creating price-related electricity outages in some regions.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 5, 2022

At COP26, the Adaptation Fund received US$356 million from contributing national and regional governments in its efforts to finance projects for the most vulnerable. Flooding in Pakistan, hurricanes in the US, and food insecurity issues throughout Sub-Saharan Africa are testament to the need for resilient development.

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Corporate Knights

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

Epic flooding has killed hundreds of people across Pakistan, India, South Africa, Germany, New York, Kentucky and British Columbia, Canada, in the last year. To repair the global water cycle and reduce our risk from flood and drought, we need to return many small areas for water to stall throughout a region.

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Chris Hall

MAY 3, 2023

Climate change was cited as a significant contributing factor to US$120 billion of insurance-covered losses from natural disasters in 2022, which include Hurricane Ian in the US, plus severe flooding in Australia and Asia, notably Pakistan. We need to help clients to understand and manage these trade-offs.”

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Gail Tverberg

JANUARY 18, 2022

For example, producers from shale formations could add new wells outside the rapidly depleting “core” regions if the oil price were much higher, perhaps $120 to $150 per barrel. For example, a recent article mentions LNG suppliers backing out of planned deliveries of LNG to Pakistan, given the high prices available elsewhere.

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3BL Media

JULY 21, 2022

My father worked in hydroelectric power generation, and he had several assignments in Iran, Pakistan and nearby regions working with the Canadian International Development Agency. In addition, my family spent several years in the Middle East and South Asia when I was a kid.

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Chris Hall

AUGUST 23, 2023

“Factories are having to be creative to attract and retain workers and this may eventually lead to increased wages meaning that Asia, in time, could become less cost effective as an apparel sourcing region,” she says. Worker rights The low pay and poor treatment of workers in garment factories has been a persistent issue for the industry.

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