CO2 is not just a greenhouse gas it is also essential in the food and drink industry, for nuclear power and even during surgeryCarbon dioxide is a byproduct of industrial production, but it has a wide range of uses across numerous industries: from cool…
Global wildfire carbon dioxide emissions at record high, data shows
Figures from EU monitoring service for August are highest since it began measurements in 2003August was another record month for global wildfire emissions, according to new satellite data that highlights how tinderbox conditions are widening across the…
America’s innovators will solve climate change, not regulators
Our best hope for reducing carbon emissions isn’t new government spending. It’s a technological sea change — one that can only come from the private sector.
Electric vehicles divide opinion as car-loving Germany goes to polls
Election has framed future of automobility as showdown between petrolheads and green zealotsThe second Steve Dumke spots a gap in the traffic on the road from Eggersdorf to Strausberg, his white Hyundai Ioniq lurches forward and nestles between two fas…
Ed Miliband: honour promises on jabs to poor countries to save Cop26 deal
Labour’s shadow business secretary says the government must ‘rebuild trust’ after a series of missteps on way to climate summitBoris Johnson should set out plans to provide Covid-19 vaccinations to all developing countries to achieve a global climate d…
The computer chip industry has a dirty climate secret
As demand for chips surges, the semicondutor industry is trying to grapple with its huge carbon foot printThe semiconductor industry has a problem. Demand is booming for silicon chips, which are embedded in everything from smartphones and televisions t…
Tanso nabs $1.9M pre-seed to help industrial manufacturers do sustainability reporting
The climate crisis is creating massive demand for data capture as industries grapple with how to decarbonize. Put simply, you can’t cut your carbon emissions if don’t know what they are in the first place. This need to gather data is a big opportunity for startups — and a wave of early companies have already […]
Index leads $12.2M seed in Sourceful, a data play to make supply chains greener
Supply chains can be a complex logistical challenge. But they pose an even greater environmental challenge. And it’s that latter problem — global supply-chain sustainability — where UK startup Sourceful is fully focused, although it argues its approach can boost efficiency as well as shrink environmental impact. So it’s a win-win, per the pitch. Early […]
Netherlands proposes radical plans to cut livestock numbers by almost a third
Dutch farmers could be forced to sell land and reduce the amount of animals they keep to help lower ammonia pollutionDutch politicians are considering plans to force hundreds of farmers to sell up and cut livestock numbers, to reduce damaging ammonia p…
Fintech is transforming the world’s oldest asset class: Farmland
While farmland is among the oldest investment classes around, the average investor hasn’t had access to farmland the way that billionaires and institutional investors have. That’s changing.