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Category Archives: Water
Global food security is possible when food can move freely from areas of surplus to areas of demand Free global agriculture trade is critically important to addressing food insecurity. The world will raise the most food the most economically and … Continue reading
Now a new report from the World Resources Institute has revealed the world will need 60% more calories per year to feed the population by 2050. At the moment 24% of calories produced for people are never consumed.
The financial waste of food thrown out by the average family in the US is $1600 per year, while the 198 million hectares are wasted producing food we don’t eat. Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Scarce Resources, Water
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(Reuters) – Water companies in Singapore are attracting big-name investors as they profit from exporting their expertise to China, which plans to spend $850 billion over the next decade to improve its scarce and polluted water supplies. Singapore is a hub … Continue reading
Posted in Investments, Water
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What’s the number one reason we riot? The plausible, justifiable motivations of trampled-upon humanfolk to fight back are many—poverty, oppression, disenfranchisement, etc—but the big one is more primal than any of the above. It’s hunger, plain and simple. Continue reading
Are headlines trumpeting the fact that carbon dioxide levels in the earth’s atmosphere have now passed the crucial 400 parts per million for the first time in something like three million years unduly alarmist? Or are they a timely warning? The current … Continue reading
Posted in Climate Change, Water, Weather
Tagged Climate Change, CO2 concentration, global warming
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900 million to one billion, more than one eighth of the world’s population live in extreme hunger and poverty and exist on less than 80 pence ($1.20) a day. Thats one in every 8 people. Hunger kills more people than … Continue reading
Posted in Agriculture, Commodities, Water
Tagged hunger, poverty, world food day, World Hunger Day
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Still wondering why we invest in agricultural equities, commodities and water ? Continue reading
Posted in - Quotes, Agriculture, Investments, Scarce Resources, Water
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Reducing the extreme levels of air pollution in China has moved to the top of the political agenda for the new government this year. Without reform, China’s air pollution could worsen by another 70% in 2015. Construction and industrial emissions … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Finance, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Commodities, Electricity, Pollution, Videos, Water
Tagged Anric Blatt China, China, China Air Pollution, Particle Matter, Pollution
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Dr. Peter Gleick Sometime, about one year from now, the front pages of whatever decent newspapers are left will carry a headline like the one above, announcing that for the first time in human existence (or in nearly a million … Continue reading
Posted in Carbon Finance, Clean Energy, Climate Change, Investments, Policy, Scarce Resources, Water, Weather
Tagged Climate Change, co2, CO2 concentration
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