COP27: The Prospects and Challenges for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Takian, Amirhossein; Mousavi, Arefeh; Yazdi‐Feyzabadi, Vahid; Labonté, Ronald; Tangcharoensathien, Viroj; Brugha, Ruairı́; Bradley, Elizabeth H.; Gostin, Lawrence O.; Engebretsen, Eivind; Eyal, Nir; Friel, Sharon; Rodwin, Victor G.; Norheim, Ole Frithjof; Hajizadeh, Mohammad; Ikegami, Naoki; Binagwaho, Agnes; Kickbusch, Ilona; Aryankhesal, Aidin; Haghdoost, Ali Akbar

doi:10.34172/ijhpm.2022.7800

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“…11 Argentina takes relevance in the concern about climate change and its direct relationship with deforestation caused by agribusiness, and presented a series of measures contemplated in the Climate Change Adaptation and Mitigation Plan 12 presented in Egypt during COP27. [13][14][15] This plan proposes environmental impact studies and the criteria that we need to uphold as scientists and as active citizens to protect forests from logging and the action of deforestation on wetlands. 12…”

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Bacterial nanocellulose, a sustainable alternative, to implement cleaner production in the design of biosensors to detect heavy metals in surface waters

Exequiel,

Eugenia

2023

IJBSBE

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While high productivity is positive for growth in developing countries, environmental balance and moderation in pollution levels must be taken into consideration. The dumping of highly harmful industrial waste into river beds, streams, groundwater tables and underground freshwater reservoirs is a clear disadvantage when thinking about sustainable processes. Putting the environment first, we wonder how many thousands of liters of vinase and toxic waste run through our watersheds to end up reusing some bagasse to extract vegetal origin cellulose. It is not about demonizing the product, but rather applying cleaner production technologies to obtain it in a sustainable and ecologically friendly way. The main objective of this review is to propose nanocellulose of bacterial origin as an inert support material for biosensors that detect heavy methals on surface waters. This alternative is sustainable, resistant to temperature and high humidity levels, optical transparency, porous nanostructure and possibilities for surface functionalization. This material has advantages over vegetable cellulose, not only functional, but also from the aforementioned environmental perspective. Heavy metals contamination on surface waters is a global problem. The development of reliable, lightweight and portable biosensors is a necessity for in situ detection of the degree of contamination, without the need for cumbersome and often complex sample taking. The performance of a biosensor depends on its ability to immobilize receptors, maintaining their natural activity, against targets in solution, as is the case of our interest. When we propose bacterial nanocellulose as a support it is due to its ability to form covalent bonds and trap by cross-linking. Although due to their high surface area per unit of volume, physical methods are also a possibility that provides versatility of processes that adapt to multiple biosensor formats. Each new discovery of the potential functionalization for bacterial nanocellulose allows us to think of new, more efficient, more environmentally friendly sensors for a multitude of applications. As the contamination of water with heavy metals increases alarmingly due to over-industrialization, it is time to ask ourselves about the cognitive dissonance of using cellulose obtained by traditional means and the aforementioned contamination that they carry to generate sensors to measure the degree of pollution that we generate when producing it.

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confidence: 99%

Bacterial nanocellulose, a sustainable alternative, to implement cleaner production in the design of biosensors to detect heavy metals in surface waters

Exequiel,

Eugenia

2023

IJBSBE

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“…Um dos aspectos salientes foi o investimento nas energias limpas para minimizar os danos ambientais. Isso é significativo para diminuir a dependência das fontes fósseis e diversificar também a economia dos países africanos, sobretudo dos países do Norte da África, onde a indústria petrolífera é o principal vetor da economia (Takian et al, 2022).…”

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Juntos por um futuro sustentável: construindo uma agenda de mudanças climáticas entre Brasil e África

Matos

2023

RTM n. 31

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É importante repensar a agenda das negociações sobre as mudanças climáticas, porque esta, no formato atual, não interessa aos países africanos, ao não colocar os problemas do continente no centro da discussão nem absorver as contribuições e as contrapartidas das nações africanas ao enfrentamento das mudanças climáticas. O artigo visa entender como a cooperação entre Brasil e África pode contribuir para a construção de um futuro mais sustentável e para a mitigação dos impactos das mudanças climáticas em ambas as regiões, dotadas de imensa biodiversidade e diversidade étnica, cujos povos originários preservam uma relação harmoniosa com a natureza. Para a construção desta agenda, o artigo busca analisar a identificação das prioridades de cada região, as suas experiências e boas práticas, as estratégias de cooperação e de governança climática, bem como a promoção das ações conjuntas na esfera internacional.

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Digital financial development, synergistic reduction of pollution, and carbon emissions: evidence from biased technical change

Liu,

Chong,

et al. 2023

Environ Sci Pollut Res

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COP27: The Prospects and Challenges for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA)

Cited by 5 publications

References 19 publications

Bacterial nanocellulose, a sustainable alternative, to implement cleaner production in the design of biosensors to detect heavy metals in surface waters

Bacterial nanocellulose, a sustainable alternative, to implement cleaner production in the design of biosensors to detect heavy metals in surface waters

Juntos por um futuro sustentável: construindo uma agenda de mudanças climáticas entre Brasil e África

Digital financial development, synergistic reduction of pollution, and carbon emissions: evidence from biased technical change

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