Net Zero alignment could create investment opportunities worth $5.5 trillion annually over the next fifteen years.
We are in the midst of a transition to Net Zero. As investors, we have to rethink our portfolios across the board - and it hasn’t happened fast enough. Portfolios should reflect net zero ambitions, but this doesn’t mean just investing in companies that have a low or no-carbon footprint today. Exciting opportunities come from places you might not expect.
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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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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Hundreds of billions of dollars are wasted in customer returns.
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A revolution in retail recycling? Unwanted goods create mountains of waste and cost retailers hundreds of billions of dollars.
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Intriguing technologies are emerging which could lead to zero emissions aviation.
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The long haul to zero emissions aviation. Intriguing technologies are emerging which could lead to zero emissions aviation. Bio and synthetic fuels are viable, but still expensive and not perfectly clean.
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