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Vast Majority of Global CO2 Emissions Tied to Just 57 Entities

DeSmogBlog

The database — which academics, lawyers, and advocates often rely on for research and legal cases — had only included information through 2017. Their ranks have become even more intensely consolidated: In 2017, the rankings showed that 100 entities were responsible for 71 percent of the sector’s emissions between 1988 and 2015.

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Macquarie raises €1.6bn for clean energy fund as investors flock to low-carbon assets

Business Green

Fund launched following success of investor's first green energy fund, which it acquired when Macquarie Group purchased the Green Investment Bank from the UK government in 2017.

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She sells sea cells: Frozen food giant explores plans to bring cell-cultured seafood to European market

Business Green

BlueNalu, which has been developing seafood products from fish cells since 2017, announced earlier this year it raised $60m from investors to help build its first production facility in San Diego.

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How effective stakeholder engagement shaped Samsonite’s ESG strategy

GreenBiz

When I joined as the company’s first global director of sustainability in December 2017, I was tasked with developing a global ESG strategy that would include attainable goals and the action plans that would enable the company to demonstrate continuous improvement and progress toward achieving those goals. An extended dialogue.

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Vast amounts of valuable energy, nutrients, water lost in world’s fast-rising wastewater streams, says study

Envirotec Magazine

Lawrence River, which drains North America’s five Great Lakes. Asia is the largest wastewater producer with an estimated 159 billion cubic meters, representing 42% of urban wastewater generated globally, with expectations of that proportion rising to 44% by 2030. Among major nutrients, 16.6 and potassium 18.6%.

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More than 75% of global insect species not adequately protected

Grist

The most underrepresented species, the researchers found, include critically endangered ones like the dinosaur ant of southern Australia, the crimson Hawaiian damselfly, and the harnessed tiger moth found in eastern North America. There are more than 200,000 protected areas around the globe , including marine protected areas.

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Davids and Goliaths Need Each Other More than Ever

Greentown Labs

However, Cemvita , a Greentown member based in Houston that was founded in 2017, discovered a way to create an SAF that uses specially engineered microbes that convert carbon dioxide into clean fuel, making it more reliable, sustainable, and (critically) scalable than traditional alternatives.