Africa, Environment, Pollution and Waste

Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

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OCTOBER 11, 2021

Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 Deaths attributable to household air pollution and ambient particulate matter (PM 2.5 ) air pollution in Ethiopia, Ghana, Rwanda, and overall in Africa, 1990–2019. Fisher et al. people per 100,000 population, an increase from 26.13

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Africa Pollution 2019 Ethiopia

WHO: 9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air; 7M deaths per year

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MAY 2, 2018

New data from the World Health Organization (WHO) shows that 9 out of 10 people breathe air containing high levels of pollutants. Updated estimations reveal a death toll of 7 million people every year caused by ambient (outdoor) and household air pollution. Ambient air pollution alone caused some 4.2 g/m 3 (for PM 10 ) and 10 ?g/m

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Pollution Africa Asia Europe

UNICEF: 300M children worldwide breathing air exceeding WHO pollution guidelines by 6x or more

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OCTOBER 31, 2016

Almost one in seven of the world’s children, 300 million, live in areas with the most toxic levels of outdoor air pollution—six or more times higher than international guidelines set by the UN’s World Health Organization (WHO)— according to a new UNICEF report. No society can afford to ignore air pollution.

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Pollution Nigeria Asia Africa

LanzaTech collaborating with Swayana to convert waste gases from ferroalloy production to ethanol

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JULY 31, 2017

South African engineering company Swayana has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with LanzaTech to collaborate on developing projects for the production of ethanol and higher value products from waste gases in the ferroalloy and titania smelting sectors. In all cases, however, the production of ferroalloys is energy-intensive.

South Africa

South Africa Convert Waste Production

UNEP and partners launch Global Initiative for Resource-Efficient Cities; role of public transport

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JUNE 26, 2012

The United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and partners have launched a new initiative that aims to reduce pollution levels, improve resource efficiency and reduce infrastructure costs in cities across the world. Up to 80% of the world population is expected to reside in cities by 2050.

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Transportation Global Brazil Waste

Fast action on black carbon, ozone and methane could help limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees C

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JUNE 15, 2011

Fast action on pollutants such as black carbon, ground-level ozone and methane may help limit near term global temperature rise and significantly increase the chances of keeping temperature rise below 2 °C (3.6 °F)—and Waste management. Pellet stoves and boilers, using fuel made from recycled wood waste or.

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Ozone Carbon Climate Change Global

Study on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities Highlights Importance of Geophysical and Technical Factors

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SEPTEMBER 7, 2009

An international study of 10 global cities found that a balance of geophysical factors (climate, access to resources, and gateway status) and technical factors (power generation, urban design, and waste processing) determine the greenhouse gas emissions (GHGs) attributable to cities. Miroslav Havránek, Charles University Environment Center.

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Emissions Global Gas Los Angeles

ABB Develops Cost-Effective Process to Clean Oily Produced Water

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FEBRUARY 1, 2010

ABB has developed a water treatment technology that cleans oily wastewater—by far the largest waste product in oil and gas production—quickly, cost-effectively and energy-efficiently. This approach led to substantial groundwater and air pollution. Oily water treatment schematics. Click to enlarge.

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Water Clean Cleaning Oil

Marine Ecosystems Capture Carbon Emissions Equal to Near 50% of Emissions of Global Transport; UN Agencies Propose Blue Carbon Fund for Their Support

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OCTOBER 16, 2009

Countries with extensive, shallow coastal areas that could consider enhancing marine carbon sinks include India; many countries in southeast Asia; those on the Black Sea; in West Africa, the Caribbean, the Mediterranean, eastern United States and Russia. Wider Benefits. Coastal waters account for just 7% of the total area of the ocean.

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Mariner Carbon Emissions Climate Change

CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

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OCTOBER 15, 2020

This technology could reduce electricity/energy bills, pollution from power plants, risks of blackouts, the need for new power plants, and pollution from power plant generation. Hago Energetics, Inc aims to help farms become more profitable by converting farm waste to high-value products, such as hydrogen and valuable carbons.

Clean

Clean Cleaning Energy Solar

Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

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JANUARY 13, 2013

Intentional-use sectors: Disposal and incineration of product waste, cremation emissions, chlor-alkali industry. Apart from contaminated sites, the mercury pollution detected today is often found in locations very far away from its original source. Source: UNEP. Click to enlarge.

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Mercury Emissions 2013 Global

It’s Time To Go To The Mattresses

Creative Greenius

JANUARY 12, 2009

They aimed more smokestacks at us and dumped toxic waste in our neighborhoods while they paid off the cops and the justice system to get away with it. We already gave the Killer Coal Family a chance to stop disrespecting us and make things right - but what did those climate-changing con artists do instead? That just ain’t right.

Coal

Coal Carbon Climate Tax

Nielsen global survey finds concerns about climate change slipping behind concerns over other environmental issues; air and water pollution top worries, pesticide use #3

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AUGUST 29, 2011

Three out of four global consumers rated air pollution (77%) and water pollution (75%) as top concerns, both increasing six percentage points compared to 2009. Boykoff, Senior Visiting Research Associate, Environmental Change Institute, University of Oxford. —Arturo García, President, Nielsen Latin America.

Climate Change

Climate Change Climate Water Pollution

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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DECEMBER 20, 2009

Bjorn Lomborg, director of the Copenhagen Consensus Center, a think tank, and author of “Cool It: The Skeptical Environmentalist’s Guide to Global Warming,” correctly states, “For almost 20 years, from Rio to Kyoto to Copenhagen, we’ve been wasting time, pursuing the failed strategy of cutting carbon-dioxide emissions. Form of Transfer.

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Climate Change Climate Carbon Emissions

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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APRIL 10, 2010

Cap-and-trade was first tried on a significant scale twenty years ago under the first Bush administration as a way to address the problem of airborne sulfur dioxide pollution–widely known as acid rain–from coal-burning power plants in the eastern United States. INTRODUCTION.

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Gas Climate Change Emissions Climate

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Study: air pollution caused 1.1M deaths across Africa in 2019, toll from outdoor pollution rising

WHO: 9 out of 10 people worldwide breathe polluted air; 7M deaths per year

UNICEF: 300M children worldwide breathing air exceeding WHO pollution guidelines by 6x or more

LanzaTech collaborating with Swayana to convert waste gases from ferroalloy production to ethanol

UNEP and partners launch Global Initiative for Resource-Efficient Cities; role of public transport

Fast action on black carbon, ozone and methane could help limit global temperature rise to 2 degrees C

Study on Greenhouse Gas Emissions from Global Cities Highlights Importance of Geophysical and Technical Factors

ABB Develops Cost-Effective Process to Clean Oily Produced Water

Marine Ecosystems Capture Carbon Emissions Equal to Near 50% of Emissions of Global Transport; UN Agencies Propose Blue Carbon Fund for Their Support

CalSEED awards $4.2M to early-stage clean energy innovations

Final session on international mercury convention this week expected to culminate in agreement; UNEP Global Mercury Assessment 2013 finds industrial source Hg emissions may be rising

It’s Time To Go To The Mattresses

Nielsen global survey finds concerns about climate change slipping behind concerns over other environmental issues; air and water pollution top worries, pesticide use #3

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Perspective: Regional Greenhouse Gas Cap-and-Trade Programs May be the Solution

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