The world’s growing thirst for water is opening up a string of attractive investment opportunities. By choosing the right partners, investors can capitalize on this strongly performing commodity. Water has long been known as blue gold due to how precious the resource is in terms of sustaining life on Earth. But recently this moniker has also become an accurate description of the financial value of … Continue reading An ocean of opportunity
By EDF Oceans / Published: July 12, 2022 By Christopher Free and Willow Battista Earlier this spring, 1.5 million livestock died in the Horn of Africa. The immediate culprit was a severe, prolonged drought spurred by the growing effects of climate change. It’s a sign of weakening food systems in a warming world. But while land-based food systems are carbon-intensive and increasingly unstable, research shows aquatic food presents real, … Continue reading To solve our food problems, we must look to the oceans
400 MW Cape Station project in southwest Utah signals a new era for enhanced geothermal energy September 25, 2023 11:35 AM Eastern Daylight Time BEAVER COUNTY, Utah – Fervo Energy (“Fervo”), the leader in next-generation geothermal technology, today held a groundbreaking ceremony to mark the start of its exploration drilling campaign at Cape Station, a next-generation geothermal energy project set to deliver 400 MW of 24/7 … Continue reading Fervo Energy Breaks Ground on the World’s Largest Next-gen Geothermal Project
Press release – 20 Sep 2023 At the UN Climate Ambition Summit today in New York, the UN Development Programme (UNDP) announced the development of a large-scale, collaborative push to establish life-saving Early Warning Systems in some of the world’s most climate-vulnerable countries. An initial injection of US$1.3 million from the Green Climate Fund (GCF) will be used to kick-start a much larger initiative aimed … Continue reading At Climate Ambition Summit, UN agencies and IFRC kickstart major initiative towards realising Early Warnings for All by 2027
Published – 22 September 2023 (Press Release Number: 22092023) Geneva 22nd September 2023 As proved so tragically in Libya last week, while water holds the key to life, all too often it kills. Whether – like in Derna – it’s too much water leading to floods, or too little water causing droughts, or polluted water resulting in health risks, addressing the dangers that water poses can save lives. … Continue reading “From satellites to sandbags”: Putting water at the heart of climate action.
