Tag: environment

• Renewable energy defies Covid-19 to hit record growth in 2020

  November 10, 2020

  Global renewable electricity installation will hit a record level in 2020, according to the International Energy Agency, in sharp contrast with the declines caused by the coronavirus pandemic in the fossil… more ›

• The State of Climate Tech 2020

  September 27, 2020

  As the COVID-19 pandemic has taken hold of the world, the question of whether venture capital, and early stage investing more broadly, is backing and scaling the innovations our world… more ›

• A New Ship’s Mission: Let the Deep Sea Be Seen

  September 20, 2020

  Mr. Dalio is one of a growing number of billionaire philanthropists seeking to reinvent themselves as patrons of social progress through science research. According to Forbes, he has an estimated net worth of… more ›

• USA’s DFC approves transactions to Mozambique totalling $1.7 billion

  September 20, 2020

  The US International Development Finance Corporation (DFC), Donald Trump’s secret weapon to counter Chinese influence in Africa, has devoted almost half of its new investment funding to natural gas projects… more ›

• Air conditioning technology is the great missed opportunity in the fight against climate change

  September 6, 2020

  Soaring AC demand will threaten our power grids and accelerate global warming – unless we begin making major changes soon. https://www.technologyreview.com/2020/09/01/1007762/air-conditioning-grid-blackouts-california-climate-change/ more ›

• 130 Degrees

  August 8, 2020

  So now we have some sense of what it’s like: a full-on global-scale crisis, one that disrupts everything. Normal life—shopping for food, holding a wedding, going to work, seeing your… more ›

• COVID-19 is awful. Climate change could be worse.

  August 4, 2020

  A global crisis has shocked the world. It is causing a tragic number of deaths, making people afraid to leave home, and leading to economic hardship not seen in many… more ›

• Microsoft’s astonishing climate change goals, explained

  August 1, 2020

  You could be forgiven for missing it, given the surplus of news, but the past few years have seen a profusion of climate change commitments from big tech companies. Facebook,… more ›

• This apartment design predicts a dystopian future of hunting and gathering for food and using canoes to get around — see inside

  February 9, 2020

  “Mitigation of Shock, Singapore” shows a vision of domestic life 50 years out, when rising ocean levels have flooded cities, and people are forced to grow their own foods and… more ›

• In 2030, we ended the climate emergency. Here’s how

  January 23, 2020

  What is human civilisation if not the result of all the stories we’ve been told? Centuries of evidence have shown that storytelling can change the course of history. Radical imagination,… more ›