North America

North America is a continent entirely within the Northern Hemisphere and almost all within the Western Hemisphere. It can also be described as a northern subcontinent of the Americas. It is bordered to the north by the Arctic Ocean, to the east by the Atlantic Ocean, to the southeast by South America and the Caribbean Sea, and to the west and south by the Pacific Ocean. However, Greenland, because it is on the North American Tectonic Plate, is often included as part of North America geographically. North America covers an area of about 24,709,000 square kilometers (9,540,000 square miles), about …

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WRI: World Resources Institute · 3 June 2024 English

This paper describes the methods for updating the Spatial Database of Planted Trees (SDPT) in three areas: boundaries, to spatially differentiate planted forests and tree crops from natural and seminatural …

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WRI: World Resources Institute · 1 April 2024 English

This technical note describes the methods used to create a dataset of school bus depot locations in the United States. There are nearly half a million school buses in the …

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IRENA: International Renewable Energy Agency · 25 March 2024 English

2023 Solar Hydropower Wind Others 86% Renewable po. [...] Renewable power capacity by region North America Europe Eurasia Capacity 530 GW Capacity 787 GW Capacity 122 GW Global share 13.7% Global share

org/Data Renewable power capacity by region North America Europe Eurasia Capacity 530 GW Capacity 787 in China (+297.6 GW). Capacity in Europe and North America expanded by 71.2 GW (+10.0%) and 34.9 GW (+7 Note: these figures exclude Eurasia, Europe and North America. (+58 MW), Kenya (+35 MW) and Chile (+32 MW)


WHO: World Health Organization · 22 March 2024 French

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WHO: World Health Organization · 22 March 2024 French

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activity varied by transmis- sion zone. In North America, activity remained elevated with a predominance glycosylation site) and K276E predom- inated in Europe, North America, Oceania and West and South Asia. Another subclade


Regional Australia Institute · 22 March 2024 English

She spearheaded the development of the Regionalisation Ambition – a framework to ‘rebalance the nation’ by driving a parity of population between the regions and cities. [...] As the former …

sector, with stints in Sydney, London, and North America. Returning to South Australia in 2008, Matt


ORF: Observer Research Foundation · 22 March 2024 English

Introduction From a small shop tucked away somewhere in the western part of Delhi, Jasmeen Kaur skyrocketed to internet stardom with her “Just looking like a wow!” Instagram reels. The …

significant populations in West Asia, Southeast Asia, North America, Africa, and Australia. They make an enormous


IRENA: International Renewable Energy Agency · 22 March 2024

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PIK: Potsdam-Institut fur Klimafolgenforschung · 21 March 2024 English

in Northern Hemisphere ice sheet area through MIS5d, with ice sheets expanding over northern North America and Scandinavia, in broad agreement with proxy reconstructions. While most of the increase in

MIS5d, with ice sheets expanding over northern North America and Scandinavia, in broad agreement with proxy least several model grid cells in northern North America and/or Eurasia was considered to be the criterion 2021) could poten- tially affect ice growth in North America (Khodri et al., 2001) or Scandinavia (Lofverstrom a temperature bias correction over northern North America as shown in Fig. B1. The bias cor- rection is cover is possibly un- derestimated over eastern North America, particularly over the Labrador region, although


IIGCC: The Institutional Investors Group on Climate Change · 21 March 2024 English

We work with our members to the Asian investor perspective in the evolving address climate risk and ensure they are well global discussions on climate change and the positioned to …

management. www.iigcc.org. www.aigcc.net Ceres - North America Investor Group on Climate Ceres is a nonprofit


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