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Innovation: making a virtue out of necesity

María Prados — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:30:40 +0000

A simple accounting identity shows that greenhouse gas emissions that build up in the atmosphere and cause climate change evolve according to GDP and emissions intensity per unit of GDP. Global GDP grew by 114% between 2000 and 2022, while emissions intensity fell by 33%.

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Neustark: “Without technologies that eliminate carbon dioxide permanently, we will not be able to stop global warming”

María Prados — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:28:23 +0000

Neustark, founded just five years ago, has developed a technology that captures carbon dioxide from the atmosphere and stores it within concrete, which is capable of retaining it for hundreds of thousands of years. This is a novel contribution to the fight againstclimate change.

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Carbon capture or how to close the loop

María Prados — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:26:33 +0000

Reducing carbon dioxide emissions is crucial to combating climate change, but achieving net zero will also require carbon capture technologies.

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The challenge of financing the clean industrial deal

María Prados — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:24:18 +0000

The world is entering a new era of global competition, and cleantech manufacturing is at its heart. Reindustrialisation has brought industrial policy back into the mainstream, with China’s Made in China 2025 programme, and the American Inflation Reduction Act (IRA) investing billions of public funds to capture a share of a global market likely to reach $650 billion by 2030.

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Ismael Olmedo: "Our technology doesn’t just capture microplastics, but also offers a solution for the protection of human health and the defense of the environment"

david.corral — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:21:42 +0000

For Ismael Olmedo, CEO of Captoplastic, seeing clean, vibrant waterways is priceless —a value he cherishes more with age. He finds his company’s work particularly gratifying; they have developed technology to capture microplastics as small as one micron (0.001 mm), which are otherwise elusive and harmful to nature and health. We spoke with Olmedo to learn how this technology can cleanse ecosystems of these tiny pollutants and protect the environment.

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Green is back in fashion

david.corral — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:19:34 +0000

Clothing is much more than something to keep us warm: it is a powerful expression of our identity, culture and ideas. Brands are becoming increasingly aware of the importance of creating quality clothing that is not only attractive, but also sustainable, and that showcases their commitment to the planet and the future.

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Green hydrogen: when combustion is genuinely sustainable

María Prados — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:17:30 +0000

Sustainability inevitably means replacing fossil fuels —the main cause of global warming— with cleaner alternatives in terms of greenhouse gases. In this endless search for cleaner energy sources, green hydrogen emerges as a promising option, yet it remains far from decarbonizing sectors difficult to electrify, such as industry or heavy transport.

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Tim Gould: "Innovation remains the key to successful clean energy transitions"

María Prados — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 10:00:45 +0000

The global energy sector has been through extremely turbulent times in recent years. Many consumers around the world are feeling the bruises from high and volatile fossil fuel prices, especially for natural gas, which led to major pressures on the cost of living.

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Jonathan Geifman: "If we want to secure the future of the Earth, we need to expand into space"

María Prados — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 09:58:16 +0000

Helios was established over six years ago as a project to produce oxygen on the Moon, but in its first steps it discovered by chance a responsible way to obtain iron as a by-product. It all started with a question. Jonathan Geifman —CEO of this Israeli tech company— and friends wanted to know why human beings had not returned to the Moon since the Apollo 17 mission in December 1972.

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Nuclear fusion, moving closer to replicating the sun's energy

María Prados — Sun, 16 Mar 2025 09:52:29 +0000

Fusing the nuclei within atoms could offer humanity a clean and virtually boundless energysource, although various technical and economic challenges must first be overcome.

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