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Every year, the world loses millions of hectares of forest. Moves to combat deforestation are being made, but how effective are they?
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Russia’s invasion of Ukraine has focused attention on its role as a critical supplier of oil and gas. How will this affect the race to decarbonise?
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A sustainable farm is helping to tackle a wheat shortage made worse by war in Ukraine
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Big money is being spent developing battery-powered aircraft and the technology is improving, but there are still major hurdles to overcome.
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Scientific breakthroughs and growing interest from private investors means efficiently generating energy using nuclear fusion may be getting closer
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Thanks to technological advances, the steel, cement and chemicals sectors are beginning to wean themselves off fossil fuels, but it’s a gradual, uphill process
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As the world sizes up the twin challenges of climate change and biodiversity loss, new approaches are emerging to address both
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Net zero is a move from an economy that destroys value to one that creates value. Lombard Odier's Thomas Höhne-Sparborth outlines how investors could become nature's biggest allies
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Many of today’s sustainability focused strategies exclude the companies that will ultimately contribute the most to future CO2 reductions
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Net Zero alignment could create investment opportunities worth $5.5 trillion annually over the next fifteen years
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Can whales help cool the temperature of our planet? A whale’s body can store up to 33 tonnes of harmful carbon dioxide. When they die and sink to the ocean floor, all that carbon is stored there for centuries...
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Oceans are the source of at least 50 per cent of all oxygen produced on Earth. Yet industrial fishing, offshore oil exploration and using the ocean as the world’s dumping ground for plastics and harmful chemicals have placed this fragile ecosystem...
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