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Is it ethical to patent emerging climate tech?

GreenBiz

is fast-tracking patent applications for climate tech. Is this a good move?

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This summer, consider sustainable seafood

GreenBiz

Yet as a consumer, I’ve found it too daunting to evaluate whether the seafood at my restaurants or supermarkets are truly sustainable and ethical. . I’m well aware of many sustainable fishing initiatives and their economic importance. Hopefully, they help bring a better catch to your plate this summer. Kemp needs between one and 1.2

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Should the world ban solar geoengineering? 60 experts say yes.

Grist

Is it ethical to even research such technologies? The authors want governments to ban outdoor experiments and deployment of solar geoengineering, prohibit national funding agencies from providing financial support, and refuse patents for such technologies.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2021

Greentown Labs

Topl ’s blockchain ecosystem is built to prove ethical and sustainable practices, empowering businesses and other organizations to drastically cut certification costs and produce unprecedented trust and transparency around their ESG initiatives. Skytree ’s patented process employs a unique CO? filter that scrubs CO?

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10 Solar and Storage Trends for 2021

GreenTechMedia

Patent protection on these components, coupled with manufacturing scale and NEC rapid shutdown requirements, have created a significant barrier to entry for competing products. The module level power electronics duopoly will continue. Nevertheless, technology marches forward, so leaders must continue their innovation efforts to stay ahead.

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Should we genetically edit the food we eat? Two experts offer their thoughts

Business Green

This is turn can invoke the idea that scientific progress interferes with nature, producing results which are unpredictable and ethically wrong. So of course they protect these innovations through patents and intellectual property rights. There's also the question of whether it is ethically correct for companies to own life.

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UK start-up raises £3.5m to develop greener vinyl for music industry

Business Green

from investors to commercialise its patent-pending technology which streamlines the manufacture of making vinyl records in a bid to drive down emissions and costs. A British tech start-up has raised £3.5m in total from a consortium of investors and music-industry heavyweights, following the closure of its seed funding round.

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