Heavy industries must decarbonise dramatically to reach net zero. Replacing fossil fuels with green hydrogen, created with renewable energy, is one way to reduce emissions. Examples of green hydrogen being used in various industries are emerging, but as the FT’s Sylvia Pfeifer reports, this carbon-free innovation faces a major challenge to scale up.
Two companies are on a mission in Iceland to find a technological solution to the elusive problem of capturing and storing carbon dioxide.
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How should investors think about nature? What can we learn from indigenous cultures about our approach to markets?
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Less than 10 per cent of the made-made material is currently reused but a new technology is set to create a more circular economy
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How to feed 10bn people in a sustainable way
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Monitoring the health of cattle lowers the use of drugs — and the risk of bacterial resistance to them
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A global effort aims to conserve and harness biodiversity over the next decade
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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?
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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 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?
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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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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
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Most wind turbine blades end up in landfill, but new technologies could help solve the problem
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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.
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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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