🏭 Why is Guangdong building more coal power stations?

🔌 Is coal power needed to solve electricity shortages?

🔋 Do renewables need to be bundled with coal?

📉 Can upgrading large, and suspending small, coal plants decrease carbon emissions?

✍️ Zhang Xiaoli reports

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https://loom.ly/yuJvyR8

🍽️ "If food loss and waste were a country, it would be the third biggest source of greenhouse gas," says Inger Andersen, executive director of UN #Environment Programme.

A mix of government initiatives, marketing and consumer choice can help cut emissions from China’s food system.

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https://loom.ly/LVcB2Fw

#food #foodwaste #climatechange #climate #climatechange #globalwarming #greenhousegas

✊🌴 Japan’s palm oil power push is faltering

Concerns about #biodiversity, greenhouse gas emissions & #humanrights have led to local opposition to Japan's #palmoil power plans.

"The withdrawal from the palm oil #power generation business in Maizuru city… was successful due to the passionate actions of local residents,"
- Yuichiro Ishizaki, with Osaka-based environmental non-profit Hutan

✍️ @ncoca reports

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#oilpalm #Japan #energy #biomass

💰🌱 Transition finance in China is still in its early stages, with a need for clear project classification, funding methods, and reporting guidelines.

Want to learn more about what's holding China's transition finance back?

Check out the full story here: https://loom.ly/mfWGR5E

#TransitionFinance #China #Sustainability

🚨🚢 Did you know that #ships are contributing to the #melting of #Arctic #ice?

When ships burn heavy #fuel #oil, they produce "black #carbon," which darkens surfaces and reduces the amount of sunlight they reflect, accelerating ice melt. This also poses a serious #health risk to coastal #communities.

But there's hope! #Environmental groups are calling for ships to switch to cleaner #fuels, which would eliminate this #climate and health #threat.

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https://loom.ly/BnSXzVc

🌊 "The threat is clear due to disruption of the hydrological function of the Kayan River and its tributaries."

A long-touted dam with Chinese backing is slowly being built in Indonesia, but may impact Indigenous villages and the environment.

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https://loom.ly/3pUgXTA

#dam #development #Indonesia #environment #conservation #River #rivers #Indigneous

🏗️🌳 While mangroves feature prominently in advertising for new tourist developments inside Cambodia’s Ream National Park, vehicles are busy destroying the wetlands in which they grow.

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#development #environment #mangrove #nationalpark #conservation #nature #biodiversity #tourism

☣️ A train derailment in #Ohio caused panic when a #railroad firm decided to burn off #hazardous chemicals to prevent leakage.

What can we learn from the The U.S. Environmental Protection Agency's response?

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https://loom.ly/qMcgjgE

#environment #pollution #airquality #chemicals #health #solutions #derail #EPA

"Above all, I would reiterate the [importance of] proper implementation of co-management arrangements between member states and local communities."

🌳 Nine countries are trying to halt damage to the vast but shrinking miombo biome, and save the Zambezi Basin.

🔎 Read here:
https://loom.ly/4JvFWUY

#conservation #forest #forestry #environment