The facts about nuclear fusion don’t support the hype around it that followed the recent “breakthrough”, as many media echoed it. Nuclear fusion will not contribute to solving the current climate and energy crisis.
In the latest The Green Bond report, experts explain why hope is likely to prevail and look closer at specific challenges that need to be solved if the transition is to be able to continue gaining speed, including how investors can make a difference.
The United Nations Climate Change Conference COP27 outcome results in an agreement to provide “loss and damage” funding for vulnerable countries hit hard by climate disasters. When, and how much, money will reach the affected countries remains unclear. No decisions were made to effectively limit climate change.
All the protein we need to feed the world can be produced on an area of land smaller than London, or the micro-state of Andorra. A food revolution too good to be true? Not according to RePlanet, the group that builds on precision fermentation to pull it off.
All the LNG panic plans lead to yet another big threat to the climate: overshoot of the remaining carbon budget, thus leading to even higher temperatures.
With 65% of consumers saying that they care about the environment, a mere 15% are actually buying sustainable fashion. The good news is that research finds that will change for the better. At least, again that’s what consumers say.
Mussels remove microplastics as natural filter feeders that ingest the plastics with their regular food and pass them into their faeces.
A new gold fever may be at hand. Not about the yellow glossy metal, however, but something totally different: gold hydrogen. It comes from microbes that eat oil and produce H2.
A multinational supplier of fresh vegetables and fruit is embracing entomology for sustainability. In Chile, insects naturally control agricultural pests such as Mealybugs and White scale in a pioneering project.
Sails on merchant ships were either from the past or for the future. But retrofitting existing vessels with sails makes it very much today’s topic. A must for the climate and for economic exploitation.