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

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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. The team devoted special attention to three rapidly developing Sub-Saharan countries: Ethiopia, Ghana and Rwanda. Air pollution was responsible for 1.1 Fisher et al.

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Toyota Environmental Activities Grant Program accepting application for 2017 awards

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Joint biodiversity conservation activities with cocoa farmers in Ghana. Implementation and promotion of the Eco School Program, designed to develop human resources that will tackle environmental problems. Building an intraregional circulation of mulberry tree, silkworm, and cocoon resources, with multi-generational participation.

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Global Bioenergy Partnership publishes report on 24 sustainability indicators for bioenergy: electricity, heat and transport

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The report represents the first global, government-level consensus on sustainability indicators for bioenergy and is intended as a resource in helping countries assess and develop sustainable production and use of bioenergy for electricity, heat and transport. Harvest levels of wood resources. Earlier post.) Click to enlarge.

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New international Climate and Clean Air Coalition to focus on reduction of short-lived climate pollutants

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The founding coalition partners are Bangladesh, Canada, Ghana, Mexico, Sweden, and the United States, together with the UN Environment Programme (UNEP). The coalition will focus efforts on reducing black carbon, hydrofluorocarbons (HFCs), and methane. A substantial part of these cuts can be done at little or no net cost. Earlier post.).

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EPA report to Congress finds a strong scientific and technical foundation for mitigating black carbon emissions

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A variety of other options may also be suitable and cost-effective for reducing BC emissions, but these can only be identified with a tailored assessment that accounts for individual countries’ resources and needs. Reducing current emissions of BC may help slow the near-term rate of climate change, particularly in regions such as the Arctic.

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IISD Releases Five-Part Series of Reports on Removing Fossil Fuel Subsidies

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Channelling resources to interest groups can be a tool to promote government survival, such as by influencing voting decisions or donations to political campaigns. The Politics of Fossil-Fuel Subsidies. This paper argues that the failure to fully reform subsidies lies in a failure to appreciate the politics behind such policies.

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