Coal mines, oilfields and gas reserves are increasingly losing their value as tighter regulations aimed at tackling climate change already are and will continue to be put in place. Due to this, oil and gas companies are expected to write-off at least half of the...
The plant-based meat alternatives market is on a continuous rise. VC investment in bio-engineered foods has rocketed in the past 10 years and the trend is likely to continue with investors coming after bioengineered food start-ups in droves. Environmentalists are now pointing fingers at the...
MorganStanley, Citi and Bank of America have joined the Partnership for Carbon Accounting Financials, a global group composed of 70 financial institutions representing more than $10 trillion in assets, which aims to provide financial institutions with a common methodology to assess and measure greenhouse gas emissions. Morgan Stanley,...
The global health crisis, COVID-19, is reducing carbon emissions more than any policy as ever done before. The COVID-19 viral disease that has swept into at least 114 countries, killing approximately 30,000 people and infecting more than 600,000, is now officially a pandemic. According to a study by...
The CO2 emissions continued to rise in the 2015-2019 timeframe and will continue to rise in the future. This is a bleak forecast according to the new Report by the the Science Advisory Group to UN Climate Action Summit 2019. The key messages of the Report...
The Anglo-Australian mining company Rio Tinto has signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) with China's largest steel producer, China Baowu Steel Group. The MOU aims at developing ways to reduce carbon emissions released during steel manufacturing process. The partnership, signed on September 25, 2019, includes a collaboration with Tsinghua...
Not only Amazonia: large parts of Earth are burning, and the problem might be bigger than it appears. Journalists have focused on the enormous devastation that is occurring in Amazonia this year: in comparison to last year, the number of fires in the region has enormously...