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Where women lead, money follows

Corporate Knights

The glass ceiling at Canada’s greenest companies is getting pretty thin, and the women at the top have their sights set on climate change. “I I personally don’t know of any senior leaders in Canada that don’t think [climate change] is a risk, and I couldn’t say that five years ago,” says Laura Zizzo, CEO of Manifest Climate.

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Don’t despair about climate change, instead put your capital where it counts

Renewable Energy World

Every major economy has an industrial zone like the Port of Rotterdam, a place where smokestacks, pipes, and tanks tell one story of climate change. Having presented the global risks from Arctic climate change to audiences at the World Economic Forum at Davos each year, Gail is worried. It is a complicated place.

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Unlocking the soil microbiome

Envirotec Magazine

If we could replenish the source microbial universe, we will boost the ground’s ability to capture and retain carbon, and nature can reverse climate change for us—perhaps in as short a time as 30 years. Practical alternatives to non-biodegradable plastics that are the scourge of the oceans are under development.

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Two million UK micro-businesses don’t believe reducing their own emissions will make a difference to climate change

Envirotec Magazine

Kate Barnard, Founder of Enjoy the Air, which provides data on air quality said: “I founded Enjoy The Air in the height of the pandemic, December 2020, to primarily address outside air quality as it links to 10 of the 17 UN’s Sustainable Development Goals.

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Breakthrough technology for lithium manufacture

Envirotec Magazine

As global effort to fight climate change intensifies, the challenge for battery manufacturers and their supply chains is to find ways to meet the rapidly growing demand for electric vehicles (EVs). A hydrometallurgical technology was developed to produce battery-grade lithium hydroxide monohydrate by soda pressure leaching.

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The carbon capture race, and what it means for jobs

Envirotec Magazine

This article offers a few thoughts from Dr Richard George, Chief Data Scientist at Faethm AI , a software-as-a-service analytics firm with a focus on technology and skills. If humanity wishes to see the next century, this has to change urgently, and we simply have to reduce the CO2 in our atmosphere. We all know why. million by 2030.

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New heights for CCS

Envirotec Magazine

By demonstrating the viability of the process, a key technology in the fight against climate change is surely awaiting deployment, they suggest. The pilot plant was developed to capture CO2 from the emissions of processes such as wastewater treatment, biogas production, anaerobic digestion and waste incineration.

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