Better batteries: the hunt for an energy storage solution
If renewable energy is going to provide a steady source of energy to power grids, we need to find ways of storing it. Lithium-ion batteries are currently the dominant technology, but new rivals are emerging. These include vanadium batteries, hydrogen and even volcanic rocks. Could they offer a serious challenge to lithium-ion’s supremacy?
Optimism was high following the COP26 summit, but will the war in Ukraine prove to be a long-term setback when it comes to net zero goals, or an incentive to create a greener world?
A new global agreement has pledged to end, indeed reverse deforestation by the end of this decade. We've been here before — so what’s different this time?
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
Diving into some of the most innovative ideas across retail, city planning, policy, technology and construction. Ideas that will truly change the way we think about sustainability in 2022
Shipping sends around a billion tonnes of greenhouse gases into the atmosphere each year, but any transition to greener fuels could be expensive and consumers will likely foot the bill.
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
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...
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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