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The Drive to Embed ‘Planetary Health’ Impacts Within Corporate Sustainability Strategy
The connection between the health of the planet, the quality of the air and the cleanliness of our drinking water have very direct impacts on health.
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- Environment
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A Clean Alternative to Fossil Fuels: Could This New Renewable Energy Source Help Solve Climate Change?
The need for climate change solutions is becoming more urgent by the day. But as the recent riots in Paris demonstrated, the public often has limited patience with carbon taxes. What’s needed, says Audun Sommerli Time at NextFuel AB, is a fuel source that can be used in the world’s existing energy infrastructure, without adding CO2 to the atmosphere. NextFuel has developed such a product: A renewable, carbon-negative fuel that’s both affordable and compatible with fossil fuel-based energy plants. He explains why it represents “the world’s best hope for addressing climate change.”
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- Energy
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India cancels plans for huge coal power stations as solar energy prices hit record low
Analyst Tim Buckley said the shift away from the dirtiest fossil fuel and towards solar in India would have “profound” implications on global energy markets.
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- Energy
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- South Asia
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Viewpoint: The Green Lobby’s Misdirected Anger
There are only two ways for the world to avoid what most scientists refer to as disastrous global warming. One way is to stop economic growth, which would be immoral, while the other would require us to deploy our greatest natural resource.
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- Energy, Environment
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Oil’s Surge Clouds Clean-Air Quest in Emerging Economies
The nations are embracing such supplies once again as crude’s recovery exacerbates economic pain and boosts inflation, threatening to undermine efforts made during oil’s slump to curb pollution.
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- Energy, Environment
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- Asia Pacific
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Rich countries pushing ‘dirty energy’ in Africa, report claims
Study finds that while wealthy nations advocate renewables at home, 60% of aid to African energy projects went on fossil fuels.
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- Energy
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- Sub-Saharan Africa
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Powering the World’s Poorer Economies: A Response to Bill Gates and Jigar Shah
Microsoft founder Bill Gates and SunEdison founder Jigar Shah have clashed in a heated debate over the best way to provide energy access to the world’s poor.
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- Energy
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Big Oil is investing billions to gain foothold in clean energy
Oil majors more than doubled the number of acquisitions, project investments and venture capital stakes, to 44 in 2016 from 21 the year before, according to research published Tuesday by Bloomberg New Energy Finance. In the last 15 years, they’ve completed 428 transactions and spent $6.2 billion building stakes in clean energy companies.
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- Energy
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