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Thought-provoking research providing extensive learning opportunities
Anna Ducros and Paul Steele, UNDP Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Plastics & Pollution Shipping & Ports Tourism
Biodiversity is degrading at alarming rates, and people living in biodiversity-rich areas often bear the heaviest costs of biodiversity loss and inequitable conservation efforts. Biodiversity credits, or ‘biocredits’, are emerging as a tradeable unit of biodiversity that can incentivise nature conservation and restoration to benefit marginalised groups living with nature.
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Dan Romito, Harvard Law School Forum on Corporate Governance Energy Solutions
The Top 15 Anticipated ESG-Related Considerations That Will Influence Strategy in 2023.
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Goldman Sachs Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
A new report by Goldman Sachs explores how biodiversity is the cornerstone around which most sustainability objectives sit and an area which corporations and investors will likely pay increased attention in order to meet sustainability and economic goals.
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Nature.com Energy Solutions
The ocean has recently taken centre stage in the global geopolitical landscape. Despite rising challenges to the effectiveness of multilateralism, attention to ocean issues appears as an opportunity to co-create pathways to ocean sustainability at multiple levels.
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Anthony de Freitas, Startup Savant Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture Shipping & Ports
A roundup of 5 ocean startups transforming the future of marine conservation.
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Working Group III, IPCC Energy Solutions
Climate Change 2022: Mitigation of Climate Change.
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Cheema-Fox, A. et al., Harvard Business School Energy Solutions
An increasing number of companies are providing products and services that help reduce carbon emissions in the economy.
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Mark Betancourt, Eos Energy Solutions
Ocean thermal energy conversion could power the world’s tropical islands, if it ever gets out of the “innovation valley of death.”
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ETIP Ocean Energy Solutions
Europe faces a choice – to lead or to follow the emerging ocean energy global market.
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International Emissions Trading Association Energy Solutions Shipping & Ports
IETA is pleased to release its GHG Market Report 2021, which examines the carbon market body, capturing the various components that combine to form the vibrant - and growing - market, and how it is kept healthy.
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Macreadie, P.I. et. al., Nature Energy Solutions
Blue carbon ecosystems (BCEs), including mangrove forests, tidal marshes and seagrass meadows, are gaining international recognition as a natural climate solution to contribute to climate change mitigation and adaptation targets.
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Joshi, S. et al., Nature Energy Solutions
Rooftop solar photovoltaics currently account for 40% of the global solar photovoltaics installed capacity and one-fourth of the total renewable capacity additions in 2018. Yet, only limited information is available on its global potential and associated costs at a high spatiotemporal resolution.
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IPCC Energy Solutions
The Working Group I contribution to the Sixth Assessment Report addresses the most up-to-date physical understanding of the climate system and climate change, bringing together the latest advances in climate science, and combining multiple lines of evidence from paleoclimate, observations, process understanding, and global and regional climate simulations.
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Blue Marine Foundation Energy Solutions Fisheries & Aquaculture
The emerging topic of blue carbon could play a huge role in the future protection and restoration of the ocean.
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Miller, K.A. et al., Frontiers in Marine Science Energy Solutions
The extraction of minerals from the seabed of the deep oceans is of increasing interest to investors, mining companies and some coastal states.
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Jocelyn Timperley, The Guardian Energy Solutions
Facing a reckoning over their contribution to the climate emergency, companies are coming out with a record number of pledges.
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Bertram, C. et al., Nature Climate Change Energy Solutions
Carbon sequestration and storage in mangroves, salt marshes and seagrass meadows is an essential coastal ‘blue carbon’ ecosystem service for climate change mitigation.
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World Economic Forum Energy Solutions Tourism
As aviation – one of the world’s most carbon-intensive industries – rebounds following COVID-19, initiatives such as SAFc can support a net-zero pathway.
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Voigt, C. et al., Nature Energy Solutions Tourism
Contrail cirrus account for the major share of aviation’s climate impact. Yet, the links between jet fuel composition, contrail microphysics and climate impact remain unresolved.
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Hutchinson, N. et al., World Resources Institute Energy Solutions
The private sector is poised to invest billions of dollars to massively speed up, scale and support the energy transition. However, many investors, particularly in the private sector, are deterred by some of the risks related to renewable energy investments.
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