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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. advocacy organizations are leading the charge to mitigate these headwinds. The module level power electronics duopoly will continue.

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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? Transportation.

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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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Who gets to decide whether we study solar geoengineering?

Grist

But in February, shortly before an independent Harvard advisory committee was expected to give the go-ahead, a group of Swedish environmental organizations and the Indigenous Saami Council sent a letter demanding the project be canceled. But, he added, “I’m confident that it’s not ethical to withhold lifesaving things over that risk.”

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Mapped: The Network of Powerful Agribusiness Groups Lobbying to Water Down the EU’s Sustainable Farming Targets

DeSmogBlog

Within the Green Deal, the EU’s “Farm to Fork” strategy includes a 50 percent reduction in pesticide use and a 20 percent reduction in fertilizer use, and a 25 percent increase in organic farming. CropLife has echoed COPA-COGECA’s arguments against pesticides reduction plans and the intensification of organic agriculture across Europe.

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

Business Green

Such crops became known as genetically modified organisms (GMOs). What genome editing technologies allow you to do is to make really precise changes to the DNA that already exists in an organism. So of course they protect these innovations through patents and intellectual property rights. It's not clear.

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GAMING THE SYSTEM HOW SOCIAL MEDIA TRANSFORMS THE PUBLIC SPHERE, UNDERMINES CLIMATE ACTION AND THREATENS DEMOCRACY

Green Market Oracle

Public service ethics and societal responsibilities are luxuries that most media cannot afford. The author supports this patently inaccurate claim by citing irrelevant facts that could resonate with those unfamiliar with science. We are seeing a rise in organizations that specialize in fact-checking and open-source intelligence.