https://www.bizcommunity.com/148/640.html Namibia news 15 Sustainable Development news - Namibia https://www.bizcommunity.com/res/img/logo.gif https://www.bizcommunity.com/148/640.html en-us Mon, 06 Apr 2026 09:19:38 +0200 https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/640/243578.html Namibia began construction on Monday of Africa's first decarbonised iron plant, to be powered exclusively by green hydrogen, the country's investment promotion body said. 1-243578 Tue, 07 Nov 2023 16:10:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Namibia https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/196/640/235611.html The saturation of environmental journalism - focused on the Paris Agreement, COP27 and associated topics - is resulting in construction professionals' apparent boredom when sustainability is raised. However, the vigorous campaigning, according to recent reports, is warranted, substantiated by increasing extreme weather events. 1-235611 Fri, 03 Feb 2023 09:07:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Namibia https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/640/234271.html SRK Consulting recently completed a Global Land Outlook (GLO) report for the United Nations Convention to Combat Desertification (UNCCD), titled Regional Thematic Report for Southern Africa: Leveraging the land, water and energy nexus in SADC. 1-234271 Wed, 07 Dec 2022 12:37:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Namibia https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/494/234167.html In June 2022, a fire outbreak at a hospital construction site in Istanbul, Turkey, destroyed most of the newly installed medical and security devices, and injured three people. A few days later, firefighters from West Fargo in North Dakota attended a flaming construction site behind the town's Costco. And a month after that, a blaze broke out at a railway development in Stuttgart, Germany. 1-234167 Mon, 05 Dec 2022 12:17:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Namibia https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/148/702/233343.html Namibia said at the COP27 summit on Tuesday, 8 November, that it had secured over €540m in climate finance from the Dutch government and European Investment Bank. 1-233343 Wed, 09 Nov 2022 12:21:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Namibia https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/640/233249.html Kenya has had to commit roughly 6% of its GDP to deal with the impacts of climate change - resources that could have been invested in other vital areas of development. 1-233249 Mon, 07 Nov 2022 13:30:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Namibia https://www.bizcommunity.africa/Article/410/640/232834.html Persistently high temperatures and related heat stress are a big problem for people living in cities, especially in slums and informal settlements. It's a problem that is expected to continue. 1-232834 Tue, 25 Oct 2022 11:02:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Namibia https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/209/360/232167.html German-led engineering firm CPS is building the world's tallest green building - a 28-storey apartment tower designed in hybrid timber technology. Named Burj Zanzibar, the high-rise is designed to stand 96 metres tall and would be Africa's first sustainable high-rise. 1-232167 Tue, 04 Oct 2022 14:57:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Namibia https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/702/231624.html As investors in global cities, we have been using planetary-scale environmental geospatial data since 2019. We have been continuously investigating and mining datasets more commonly found in academic research - including those published by space agencies such as NASA - to tease out the key environmental risks of our investments. 1-231624 Fri, 16 Sep 2022 12:49:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Namibia https://www.bizcommunity.com/Article/1/640/231437.html The Science Based Targets initiative (SBTi) has approved Saint-Gobain's greenhouse gas emission reduction targets as consistent with the organisation's new net-zero standard and the Paris Climate Agreement. Committed to achieving carbon neutrality by 2050, Saint-Gobain is the first company in its sector worldwide to receive this approval since the introduction of the new standard at the end of last year. 1-231437 Mon, 12 Sep 2022 12:57:00 +0200 Bizcommunity Sustainable Development Namibia