Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 24, 2022

The throwaway global economy is fuelling the climate crisis with more than half a trillion tonnes of virgin materials consumed since the 2015 Paris Agreement, according to a report from impact organisation Circle Economy launched on 19 January. billion tonnes in 2016 but passed 100 billion in 2019 and is estimated at 101.4

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 22, 2020

Circular economy strategies essential as reuse of resources falls to 8.6%. The report seemingly finds that total resources entering the global economy have increased by 8.4% in just two years from 92.8 billion tonnes in 2015 to 100.6 billion tonnes in 2017, the latest year for which data is available. to 92 billion tonnes[1].

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 7, 2020

Through continued up-scaling of these technologies a climate disaster can be avoided while at the same time establishing a new industrial pillar for the global economy. This agreement between Climeworks, ON and Carbfix marks an important milestone towards that goal.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 8, 2021

The group behind the FiveT Hydrogen Fund suggest it will play a major role in the decarbonisation of the global economy. A unique private infrastructure fund dedicated to delivering clean hydrogen infrastructure projects at scale has been launched.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 30, 2020

This forecast will undoubtedly be impacted by the ongoing COVID-19 pandemic, due to disruptions to global supply chains and project execution in 2020. However, it is too soon to predict the extent of the virus’s impact on the wider global economy and energy markets.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 5, 2023

The sector currently generates 8% of global CO2 emissions: more than aviation and shipping combined. The challenge of increasing emissions is becoming more urgent as production of concrete and cement is increasing to meet global needs.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 1, 2020

This spike in forest destruction led Brazil to be the only country in the world reporting a major increase in greenhouse gas emissions, in a year when the global economy stalled due to the coronavirus pandemic. Deforestation observed over the course of the year occurred mainly in the Amazonian state of Pará, which accounted for 46.8

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 22, 2022

Currently, over 80% of the global sulphur supply is in the form of sulphur waste from the desulphurisation of crude oil and natural gas that reduces the sulphur dioxide gas emissions that cause acid rain. The study is seemingly the first to identify this major issue.

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Envirotec Magazine

FEBRUARY 9, 2024

While the worldwide textile market plays a crucial role in the global economy, the industry’s growth in production and consumption over the past two decades has placed immense pressure on our natural resources and adversely impacted the health of our planet.

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Renewable Energy World

MARCH 4, 2021

Moody’s Analytics predicts that +2°C of warming would cost the global economy $69 trillion USD by 2100, not including the incalculable losses borne by communities that face rising sea levels, crop failure, devastating heatwaves and displacement from their homes. The roadmap may be complex, but the financial math isn’t.

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Envirotec Magazine

APRIL 18, 2024

The practice of MCB has attracted much attention (and controversy ) in recent years as a way of offsetting the global warming effects believed to be caused by humans and buying some time while the global economy decarbonises.

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Envirotec Magazine

JANUARY 14, 2021

Air pollution is the single largest environmental risk to human health globally, contributing to 6.7 The World Bank estimated that air pollution costs the global economy $3 trillion. million deaths each year.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 16, 2023

The impacts of the climate crisis, the war in Ukraine, a weak global economy, and the lingering effects of the COVID-19 pandemic have revealed weaknesses and hindered progress towards the Goals. A question posed throughout the congress was ‘why do roads matter and how can they support efforts to achieve the SDGs?’

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Envirotec Magazine

AUGUST 20, 2024

Systems can range from a process or a farm to an industry sector, a national economy, or even the global economy. “We Resources can be minerals, such as carbon or nitrogen, or non-mineral, such as water or energy. We know it’s important to reduce fossil fuel use, increase renewable resources, and minimize our water consumption.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 15, 2022

Electricity generation remains the primary market for 85% of fusion players, followed by off grid energy or hydrogen and clean fuels (each named by 27% of respondents), highlighting the potential of fusion to produce not just electricity to the grid but as a way to enable deep decarbonization across the global economy.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 10, 2024

This escalation of conflict has a profound impact on the global economy, with conflict estimated to have a 12.9 percent impact on global GDP. In 2023, a staggering 91 countries were involved in some form of conflict, a significant increase from 58 in 2008.This

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 1, 2021

Acting to reduce climate change is increasingly a business proposition across many sectors of the global economy, as well as a social imperative. Landowners and local communities stand to earn hundreds of billions of dollars in the coming decades, alongside the wider social and environmental reasons to restore marginal land.

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Envirotec Magazine

JULY 18, 2024

They were joined by representatives from the United Nation Industrial Development Organisation (UNIDO), C40 Cities and the Global Methane Hub along with Shell Energy, Future Biogas and Hexagon Agility – the award sponsors.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 21, 2019

The Global States and Regions Annual Disclosure 2019 , said to be the most comprehensive account of state and regional climate action released to date, summarises data from 124 states and regions from 35 countries, representing US $17 trillion – 20% of the global economy, with a combined population of 669 million people.

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Envirotec Magazine

OCTOBER 29, 2020

Pointing to the likely cost of COVID-19 of $ 8-16 trillion globally by July 2020, it is further estimated that costs in the United States alone may reach as high as $ 16 trillion by the 4 th quarter of 2021.

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Envirotec Magazine

JUNE 21, 2021

Separating the plastic from the copper in wire, for example, is already a complex process, requiring sophisticated technology but our modern, global economy means we can see cables coming from thousands of manufacturers via hundreds of countries arriving into our plants every day.

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Envirotec Magazine

MARCH 25, 2024

iii Transporting 80% of world trade, shipping is the engine room of the global economy. However, despite being the most efficient and environmental way to transport goods, it emits 2% of global emissions, equivalent to the annual emissions of Japan. Without action, this could increase by more than 45% by 2050.

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Envirotec Magazine

MAY 28, 2021

Biodiversity loss is already costing the global economy 10 percent of its output each year. Studies show this is also good for business – some $10 trillion in business opportunity and 395 million new jobs could be created by investing in nature-positive solutions.”.

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Envirotec Magazine

DECEMBER 9, 2019

Using new models to assess impacts at country and regional levels, the analysis builds on estimates by the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) that climate-induced declines in ocean health will cost the annual global economy $428 billion by 2050 and $1.979 trillion by 2100.

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Envirotec Magazine

NOVEMBER 18, 2021

The need to remove fossil fuels from our global economy has been held up by many of the most powerful countries sheltering their fossil fuel interests, including the UK and US. The UK presidency lost focus on the global diplomacy at the heart of COP with its desire to tout for sustainable finance business for The City.”.

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Stanford Social Innovation

JUNE 7, 2022

In a recent piece in The New York Times Magazine entitled “A.I. These companies imply that AI must be a critical part of working out the inefficiencies of a global economy—it is the only vector of progress. Think WALL-E , or Lt. Commander Data from Star Trek: The Next Generation. Is Mastering Language.

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GreenBiz

MARCH 8, 2021

"We have an opportunity to extend the recent response of regulators, businesses and investors on climate change to nature; both are interrelated and both pose a systemic risk to the global economy.". Mellody Hobson, Co-CEO and President, Ariel Investments. LinkedIn | Twitter.

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Envirotec Magazine

SEPTEMBER 13, 2023

Decarbonizing the global economy must not lead to further human rights violations. “Amnesty International recognizes the vital function of rechargeable batteries in the energy transition from fossil fuels. But climate justice demands a just transition.

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