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Female climate entrepreneurs are essential for climate change
ClimateGender
November 26, 2021

Female climate entrepreneurs are essential for climate change

When it comes to creating climate solutions, female entrepreneurs tend to have many attributes which make them better suited to the task than men. Yet the greentech industry has a woefully small percentage of women involved. How can this gender disparity be addressed?

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Source: World Economic Forum
Transforming the global food system to avert a mass scale crisis
Food
November 19, 2021

Transforming the global food system to avert a mass scale crisis

Cascading fallout from the COVID crisis may yet develop into a food crisis for many. World Economic Forum Founder and Chairman Klaus Schwab recently outlined four ways food systems need to be transformed to make them healthier, more sustainable, more equitable and fairer for all.

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Source: World Economic Forum
Iceland has world’s biggest carbon capture plant
Circular EconomyClimate
November 12, 2021

Iceland has world’s biggest carbon capture plant

The Orca plant, developed by Climeworks and Carbfix, combines carbon capture and storage technologies to permanently remove 4,000 tonnes of CO₂ from the air each year. It is a milestone for the direct air capture industry. This solution can be replicated everywhere and on ever larger scales.

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Source: Innovators Magazine
Why a nature-positive future is essential
Climate
November 5, 2021

Why a nature-positive future is essential

As the world emerges from the shock of COVID-19, Frans Timmermans, executive-president for the European Green Deal, explains why becoming nature-positive is essential to building a resilient future for all. The EU is leading efforts to get nature on the political agenda. Will the rest of the world follow?

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Source: The Guardian
How digital technologies can help address health inequity
HealthICT
October 29, 2021

How digital technologies can help address health inequity

Health inequity is not caused by a single factor, but is the combined result of multiple structural and procedural dimensions. Digital technologies can play an important role in addressing at least 5 of these factors through providing access, support and representation in key areas.

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Source: World Economic Forum
The controversial climate solution under the ocean
ClimateOceans
October 22, 2021

The controversial climate solution under the ocean

Mineral deposits on the seafloor could be used to deliver vitally needed clean energy. But their extraction could contribute to global warming and impact biodiversity. Biologists, conservationists, environmentalists, manufacturers and suppliers are grappling with a difficult paradox.

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Source: Time