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The role of tech in the future of sustainability

Business Green

This is the first time that a COP agreement has been made on coal at this level. Improving upon energy saving tech can reduce domestic demand for power, and innovations made in the UK will be ripe for export in coming decades. Tech has two important roles in the wake of this agreement. Global curbs to methane.

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This is the future climate hawks want to see

Business Green

Of course, arguing all that is needed is 'political will' is something of a cop out. But it is all eminently achievable, and as yesterday's report makes clear, the soaring cost of oil and gas means an accelerated net zero transition would deliver a 0.5 If it were easy to generate such will, it would have been done already.

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