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EV Charging at Home. But Does your Insurance Company Cover Home / Apartment Installation and Fire?

Several insurance companies in Australia and Asia offer coverage for EV battery fires in apartment recharging stations.  Representative image. Credit: Pixabay. Photograph:(Others) Specific fire risks linked to EV batteries and batteries charging stations in apartments and houses requires experienced and specialised handling during incidents. Insurers recognize this, leading to new

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The Playbook – WWF, the International Federation of Consulting Engineers (FIDIC) and AECOM showcased at Hong Kong’s 2024 ReThink Sustainable Expo.

The Playbook has nearly 200 case studies spanning transport, water energy, buildings and coastal projects. In the Anthropocene age of human activity that dominates the influence on climate and the environment, Great swaths of land are bulldozed and built up, or built out. According to Wilderness, land clearing deforestation in

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GHD’s ZEVO (Zero Emissions Vehicle Optimization) Study focused on logistics, finance, environment, and energy efficiency- Winning the 2024 Environment Analyst Digital Innovation Award.

ZEVO has been applied by more than 30 GHD clients who use ZEVO analysis to identify the optimal transition pathway to decarbonization that works best for their fleet of vehicles.   The award recognized GHD’s fleet decarbonization solution, GHD ZEVO (Zero Emissions Vehicle Optimization), a proprietary platform developed for fleet

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TAIWAN: 2023 Marked 200th Anniversary of the Pingpu aboriginal group in central China (1823-2023)—the footprints of the island that cannot be forgotten

Indigenous soft power is a narrative of resilience and self-assertion that resonates across the Pacific and Southeast Asia.   Taiwan’s unique and overlooked asset is its 16 Indigenous Peoples communities officially recognising  589,038 people, or 2.51% of the total population of 23.4mil. In December each year hundreds of members of

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COP-29 STOCK-TAKE NEEDING TRILLIONS IN CLIMATE FINANCE – CAPITAL EXISTS IN PRIVATE & INSTITUTIONAL INVESTORS

INSIGHT ASIA CLIMATE FINANCE: IMF + Climate and Nature Philanthropy 2023 Asia Survey + Blended Finance Launches Philippines Offshore Wind Project Image Credit: Shishka  IMF: The World Needs More Policy Ambition, Private Funds, and Innovation to Meet Climate Goals Of the trillions of dollars needed for low emission, climate resilient development,

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SCIENCE: Earth Observation Technology Unlocking 6 Industries by 2030. Huge Economic + Climate Value.

SCIENCE: EARTH OBSERVATION TECHNOLOGY CONVERTING COMPLEX INFORMATION INTO ACTIONABLE INNOVATIONS FOR CLIMATE RESILIENCE IMAGE: WeForum.org A White Paper produced by World Economic Forum and USA MIT Media Lab, examines how integrating complementary technologies with EO data converts complex information into actionable climate insights. Reproduced under the Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial-NoDerivatives 4.0

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