Barely a month after his Inauguration, President Joe Biden's America is back in the Paris Agreement. His plea for the world to listen to the "cry for survival' from the planet has been heard around the world, and the business world has listened.
In 2021 the phrase on everyone's lips is "net zero". How do corporates, countries and the world's biggest emitters achieve net zero, the balance whereby CO2 emissions produced by human activity does not exceed the amount removed from the atmosphere. The world's billionaires are shifting from space exploration to moonshot ideas for carbon capture. Elon Musk has promised $100m to carbon capture technologies and Bill Gates has submitted his manifesto for reducing emissions with his book How to Avoid a Climate Disaster. Analyst survey: Almost a quarter of all companies to be carbon neu...
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