3BL Media

OCTOBER 25, 2023

Other regions are faring better , with ELT recovery rates nearing 100 percent in Germany and France and hovering around 90 percent in Japan and South Korea. The primary reason for this decline in the U.S. is that scrap tire recycling is not keeping pace with increasing annual generation.

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3BL Media

MARCH 3, 2022

Highlighting that the UAE was the first country in the MENA region to promise net zero by 2050, at COP26, H.E. Dr. Sultan bin Ahmed Al Jaber, Special Envoy for Climate also pointed out that the UAE is the first country in the region to commit to an economy-wide reduction in greenhouse gas emissions by 2030. SOURCE: Global Citizen.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 19, 2024

The Asia Pacific region is expected to attract around 40% of total global investment in renewable energy capacity between now and 2050 , with Southeast Asia the focus. Supportive regulation Asia’s renewable potential can only be realised with a supportive regulatory environment, and this is almost universally taking shape across the region.

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ESG Today

SEPTEMBER 14, 2022

Andrew Booth, CEO and Founder of solarZero, said: “ By 2030, 50% of the world’s energy will be generated in the Asia Pacific region. Andrew Landman, Head of New Zealand and Australia, BlackRock, said: “This investment demonstrates BlackRock’s unwavering commitment to support the Australasia region on its orderly net zero transition.

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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. In South Korea: South Korea was the most polluted country for PM2.5

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Renewable Energy World

JANUARY 27, 2021

Region by Region. The region was hit hard by the Covid-19 pandemic and the economic downturn. Once the main draw for corporate procurement in the region, Mexico saw deal volumes all but dissipate, as the current administration continues to undermine the country’s clean energy sector. While the U.S. GW in 2020.

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3BL Media

JANUARY 24, 2022

To put it simply, EHS Regulatory Registers can help you understand the laws and regulations of any region where you work. Different regions have diverse EHS requirements and each facility can have a different set of obligations and risks - leaving a lot of room for error. What is a Regulatory Register? What is the Value of a Register?

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3BL Media

JULY 18, 2022

USA, the association has regional offices in Milan, Italy; Whitby, Canada; Parramatta, Australia; Seoul, South Korea; and Shanghai, China. Headquartered in Rosemont, Ill., For more information about ISSA, visit www.issa.com or call 800-225-4772 (North America) or 847-982-0800.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2022

Each Inogen Alliance associate provides a local understanding of current EHS issues combined with resources and regulatory knowledge in the regions they serve. International Example: In South Africa, all safety documentation must be provided in 3 different dialects. But excel can only do so much. Culture Integration.

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FEBRUARY 9, 2022

Amid these developments, the number of companies obtaining B Corp certification is gradually on the rise in South Korea. In South Korea, most Certified B Corps are relatively small social enterprises or acceleration/investment institutions unfamiliar to the general public. Raising Awareness About the B Corp Movement.

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3BL Media

OCTOBER 31, 2023

This included opening new facilities across a range of locations, including Ireland, Poland, Australia, and South Korea; enhancing many existing facilities by introducing advanced sorting equipment, adding warehouse capacity, and expanding airport ramp and road truck operations; and implementing operational efficiencies in markets like Alaska.

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Chris Hall

APRIL 4, 2024

Semiconductor producers’ growing demand for water could outstrip reliable supply, explains Erica de Souza, APAC Regional Manager, Water Security at CDP. What does a Toyota Prius, a dishwasher and a long-range laser-guided hypersonic missile have in common? The answer is semiconductors, the ubiquitous microchips that power the modern economy.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 17, 2023

63 46 Samsung SDI Co Ltd Yongin, South Korea $10,422 14% 81% 57% C+. 68 KB Financial Group Inc Seoul, South Korea $132,305 22% 5% C+ SBTi, NZBA. 76 Investec Ltd Sandton, South Africa $125,606 36% 5% C+ NZBA. 63 46 Samsung SDI Co Ltd Yongin, South Korea $10,422 14% 81% 57% C+. C, SBTi, NZBA.

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Sustainability Matters

MARCH 28, 2022

Australia could lower carbon emissions in the Asia–Pacific region by exporting zero-carbon commodities such as electricity, green hydrogen and green metals, according to new research by experts at The Australian National University (ANU). Professor Baldwin said Australia is well placed to become a regional powerhouse for renewable energy.

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Corporate Knights

OCTOBER 23, 2023

The numbers showed emissions falling significantly in the European Union, the United States, Japan, and South Korea, while increasing in China and India. of global GDP. But while the solutions may not be easier, they aren’t unknown.

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Sustainable Development Network

AUGUST 1, 2019

The initiative’s outputs include Regional Decarbonization Pathways Reports and a White Paper, which were discussed at the first Pathways Project Webinar on July 24, 2019. The Regional Decarbonization Pathways Reports portray what an energy transition might look like in different US regions and across jurisdictional levels.

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Sustainability Update

OCTOBER 30, 2021

Business and financial activities in “ APAC ”, the Asia / Pacific Basin Region are vital to the economies of the rest of the world. Think of the region’s leading sovereign economies…in order of magnitude, consider the impact of the economies of China, Japan, India, South Korea, Australia, Indonesia (the top economies).

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

Asian markets, in particular, are attractive as the region continues to solve for its energy demands, amid pressures to transition away from coal. Indonesia, Japan, Malaysia and South Korea have a looser stance on gas. It is likely that most investment in gas power plants could qualify for green or transition capital.

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Chris Hall

JULY 27, 2022

Conditions are also “ripe”, as a Moody’s report asserts, for the increased issuance of sovereign sustainable bonds in the region. . Taxonomies for sustainable finance have been created in mainland China, South Korea, Japan, Mongolia, Indonesia, Malaysia, and the Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) region as a whole.

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Corporate Knights

JANUARY 18, 2022

The index was dominated by companies from Europe (41) and the Americas (39), with 20 constituents from the Asia Pacific region. 46 60 Samsung SDI Co Ltd South Korea B-. 99 LG Electronics Inc South Korea 1.5°C, 46 60 Samsung SDI Co Ltd South Korea B-. 99 LG Electronics Inc South Korea 1.5°C,

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 25, 2022

Different tactics required across region for institutional investors looking to hold corporates to account on net zero strategies. Investors have called for increased engagement with Asian corporates on the adoption of net zero transition strategies,” said Rebecca Mikula-Wright, CEO of Asia Investor Group on Climate Change (AIGCC).

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Chris Hall

APRIL 12, 2024

But its impact could be much wider, with courts in Australia, Brazil, Peru and South Korea all currently considering human rights-based climate cases. The ruling , which cannot be appealed, is binding for the 46 signatories of the European Convention on Human Rights.

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Corporate Knights

APRIL 20, 2023

This was also true at the COP27 climate summit in Egypt in November, where a central thrust was negotiating what’s called loss-and-damage funding for the Global South based on the devastating impacts of historic emissions from the Global North on many of the world’s poorest cities. This year we have organized the ranking by region.

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Chris Hall

OCTOBER 21, 2022

But 30 years of industrial success and urbanisation have modified the landscape, and according to the latest available data Asia is now up to 31%, while the old industrial regions (Europe, US) are down to 46%, and the Asian share of emissions will most probably continue to increase. Asian start-ups are also rising through the ranks.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 11, 2021

At the time of writing, the virus has claimed almost a million lives and disrupted the entire world, sparing no region. Among UN regions, East and South Asia have progressed the most. It’s time to get the globe back on track It is now clear that Covid-19 presents a major setback for the SDGs.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 10, 2023

However, making progress on diversity targets can be challenging, not least because there is a high level of variability between regions. In South Korea, only 10% of board seats were held by women in 2022, and in China only 11.9%. Countries with mandatory gender quotas are making fast progress. and the US at 30.4%.

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Sustainable Development Network

APRIL 1, 2020

Antoni Plasència, Director General of the Barcelona Institute for Global Health (ISGlobal), Dr. Carlos Chaccour presented an overview of the COVID-19 outbreak in Europe, showing how Western Europe in particular quickly became one of the hardest hit regions in the world. On the other hand, stressed Dr. Ozge Karadag Caman and Dr.

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3BL Media

JULY 29, 2022

USA, the association has regional offices in Milan, Italy; Whitby, Canada; Parramatta, Australia; Seoul, South Korea; and Shanghai, China. Headquartered in Rosemont, Ill., For more information about ISSA, visit www.issa.com or call 800-225-4772 (North America) or 847-982-0800.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 25, 2022

Ninety percent of thematic fund assets in Europe are active, whereas 71% of thematic fund assets in the US are passive; the latter reflecting the popularity of ETFs in the region.

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Chris Hall

MARCH 24, 2023

Some institutional investors have been hamstrung by the lack of scale offered by renewable energy projects in the region, making them less investible, but when governments are running tenders for 10GW projects, at least one of the barriers to finance flows mentioned by the IPCC begins to ebb.

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Sustainability Matters

JULY 5, 2022

In this future energy economy, Europe, South Korea and Japan are shaping up to become net hydrogen importers while the Americas, the Middle East, Africa and Australia are in a strong position to become hydrogen exporters. They also help coordinate and maximise engagement of local communities.

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Chris Hall

NOVEMBER 4, 2022

Taxonomy regulations have been launched in the ASEAN region, Colombia, Indonesia, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, Sri Lanka, and Vietnam. Also, geographically, there are inconsistencies and gaps because getting data from certain countries or regions remains a challenge.”.

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3BL Media

SEPTEMBER 15, 2023

At Viatris, we realized that we had a powerful platform, as the world’s largest producer of HIV drugs by volume, to help those living with TB around the world, including the regions where the TB burden is the highest – in low- and lower- middle-income countries. Source: [link] References: 1 World Health Organization.

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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 But That May Change With COVID-19: SDG Report.

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Sustainable Development Network

JANUARY 16, 2014

The modeling workshop, organized in partnership with the World Energy Outlook (WEO) team of the IEA, gathered modelers, energy technology and policy experts from 11 of the 13 countries or regions covered by the DDPP (Australia, Brazil, Canada, China, Europe, Indonesia, Japan, Russia, South Africa, South Korea, and the United States).

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Gail Tverberg

AUGUST 31, 2023

After this introductory material, I provide charts and some analysis of fossil fuel imports and exports by region, based on data from the 2023 Statistical Review of World Energy. Theoretically, the total of regional imports should be very close to the total of regional exports.

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Chris Hall

FEBRUARY 21, 2022

A new Moody’s report claims “conditions are ripe” for increased issuance of sustainable bonds by sovereigns in the Asia-Pacific region. It forecasted that 19 countries in the region would suffer worsening public finances over 2021-23, versus the period prior to the outbreak of the pandemic. trillion) to reach the goals.

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