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Former Tesla exec launches electric boat manufacturing firm in Florida

Charged

Blue Innovations Group will demonstrate its hull, propulsion system and user interface at the upcoming Consumer Electronics Show in Las Vegas. The R30, which is expected to carry a price tag around $300,000, is very much a luxury boat, but it sounds like more mass-market models are planned for the future. “To

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A Panacea for Biomedical Waste Management?

The Environmental Blog

The COVID-19 pandemic has broachedumpteen pervasive challenges on multiple fronts- health, environment and economy. Although the economy is restoring to an extent but an exponential escalation in the biomedical waste generation has posed severe persisting health hazards and environmental threats.

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Managing risk, achieving impact: Linking sovereign debt with climate and nature targets

Business Green

As we all look to the hopeful end of the global Covid-19 pandemic and make plans to return to the 'new normal', many countries are struggling to fund the relief and recovery packages needed to get their economies back on track. Difficulties around resource intensive budget tagging and project identification could also be avoided.

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Could UK gas power stations still play a role on a net zero grid?

Business Green

The spectacular decline in renewable energy technology costs over the last decade has established the sector as the linchpin of the country's decarbonisation drive, offering a potential template for how government and industry can work together to scale green technologies that can decarbonise the economy.

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'Sensible incentives' and 'plumbing reforms': Leading figures mull pathway from Covid-19 crisis to net zero economy

Business Green

A new essay collection from Bright Blue argues that net zero will not require vast amounts of public spending, due to the momentum delivered to date on decarbonisation in the UK.

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Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Rule the $700 Billion Hydrogen Market from a Marine Perspective

Mr. Sustainability

The most important backer is Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the 35-year-old de facto ruler, who envisions Neom as a zero-emissions example helping transform society and the economy. The hydrogen plant is part of that vision.

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Saudi Arabia’s Plan to Rule the $700 Billion Hydrogen Market from a Marine Perspective

Mr. Sustainability

The most important backer is Crown Prince Mohammed bin Salman, the 35-year-old de facto ruler, who envisions Neom as a zero-emissions example helping transform society and the economy. The hydrogen plant is part of that vision.