Environment

环境 · 2023年04月14日

Rethinking climate change mitigation

Sir David King, the founder and chair of Cambridge University's Centre for Climate Repair, offers some novel solutions to tackle climate change– from refreezing the Arctic to filling the oceans with artificial whale poo.

环境 · 2022年10月05日

Your power in the fight against climate change

Anxiety over climate change is widespread today, but we should remember that we can make a positive impact through both our individual decisions and actions within our communities.

环境 · 2022年09月01日

Power of Conversation: An evening discussion with Pictet Wealth Management and Conduit Capital

What will it take for investors across the board to invest for both profit and purpose – and why is it taking so long to reach the critical mass we urgently need?

环境 · 2022年08月03日

Using AI to help prevent environmentally devastating forest fires

Forest fires are a significant contributor to global warming, and the majority are caused by power lines hitting trees. Roelof Pieters is co-founder of Overstory, which uses AI and human expertise to work with power companies to address the issue.

环境 · 2022年08月01日

A new twist in the US clean energy saga

Michael Gerrard, a leading expert on US environmental law, explains why the US Supreme Court's ruling to curtail climate change regulation won't derail the country's clean energy drive.

环境 · 2022年07月20日

The corporate journey to net zero

In 2021, Pictet committed to reducing net greenhouse-gas emissions to zero by 2050, including shorter-term interim target setting aligned with a 1.5°C scenario. The commitment marks the first step in a complex journey through unchartered territory, which we will endeavour to navigate with a Climate Action Plan that will be published in the autumn.

环境 · 2022年07月07日

How to drive philanthropic efforts to tackle climate change

Jane Burston was Head of Climate and Energy Science in the UK government, before becoming the founding executive director of the Clean Air Fund, empowering those working to make the world’s air breathable.

环境 · 2022年07月01日

Cities in nature

Singapore shows how cities can become increasingly integrated with nature.

环境 · 2022年07月01日

Earth Overshoot Day: consuming like there's no tomorrow

The world appears to have unwound all the environmental progress made during the pandemic as our consumption of natural resources is back to unsustainable pre-Covid levels.

环境 · 2022年06月01日

Carbon accounting finds its feet

The first step towards net zero is calculating how much carbon we emit today and where. Carbon accounting start-ups are rising to the challenge.

环境 · 2022年05月17日

A beginner’s guide to ESG-labelled bonds

Achieving the 17 Sustainable Development Goals and getting to a net-zero carbon economy is as much, if not more of a financial, than a technology challenge.

环境 · 2022年05月01日

Clean energy chronicles

Chris Goodall, economist and author of the widely-acclaimed 'What we need to do now for a zero carbon future', provides his unique take on the latest developments in the clean energy industry.

环境 · 2022年04月26日

Creating sustainable food from algae

Isaac Berzin is an Israeli scientist and entrepreneur who worked at MIT’s Center for Space Research and has been named one of Time Magazine’s 100 most influential people for his work on algae and sustainability. He is now co-founder and chief technology officer of Vaxa, a start-up that farms algae to make sustainable food ingredients.

环境 · 2022年04月21日

How to help combat climate change as a philanthropist

Leaders and non-governmental organ­isations across the globe have declared climate change as the single biggest health threat facing humanity[1].

环境 · 2022年04月14日

Batteries powered by oceans’ treasure

Electric vehicles are a key part of halting climate change, but they require a lot of rare metals. The answer to that problem may lie at the bottom of the ocean.

环境 · 2022年04月14日

Using Art to Change the World

环境 · 2022年04月07日

Powered by plants: Hong Kong looks to future beyond meat

David Yeung asked meat-loving Hong Kongers to stop eating meat once a week. Ten years later, his Green Monday movement is transforming the diet of people beyond the territory.

环境 · 2022年04月03日

Winds of change

The risks of inaction – or insufficient action – on climate change are rising. Governments and businesses that neglect their responsibilities will be held accountable, if not taken to court.

环境 · 2022年03月20日

Clean energy chronicles

Chris Goodall, economist and author of the widely-acclaimed 'What we need to do now for a zero carbon future', provides his unique take on the latest developments in the clean energy industry.

环境 · 2022年03月15日

Clean energy chronicles

Chris Goodall, economist and author of the widely-acclaimed 'What we need to do now for a zero carbon future', provides his unique take on the latest developments in the clean energy industry.

环境 · 2022年03月11日

Energy transition: shaping humanity’s low-carbon future

In a new book, scientists prove that the world already has a number of innovative technologies to reduce energy and electricity-related carbon emissions. There is simply no excuse, then, not to act now.

环境 · 2021年11月24日

Demystifying Net Zero

环境 · 2021年10月21日

How investment and philanthropy can combine

Nachson Mimran, together with his brother Arieh Mimran, runs a philanthropic and creative platform, and venture fund, and is a leading next-generation investor and thought leader in sustainable investing.

环境 · 2021年09月22日

Sissel Tolaas wants to reconnect humanity through our sense of smell

Sissel Tolaas wants to reconnect humanity through our sense of smell

环境 · 2021年07月01日

Frédéric Rouzaud on creating sustainable luxury wines

Frédéric Rouzaud, managing director and owner of Louis Roederer, has expanded the family business to 12 prestigious wineries from Bordeaux to California, and a luxury hotel in the French Alps, and created a focus on sustainability across the brands.

环境 · 2021年05月18日

The rise of impact investing

From school children to central bankers to the world’s wealthiest business leaders, the awareness that we as individuals and as investors have a responsibility and accountability over our decisions has sharpened over the last few years. Within the toolkit we have to influence positive change around us, investing serves as a means of transforming our best intentions into tangible action.

环境 · 2021年04月23日

The global journey to net-zero could create a historic investment opportunity

In 2015, nearly every country in the world adopted the Paris climate agreement, pledging to limit the global temperature increase to well below two degrees Celsius from pre-industrial levels.

环境 · 2021年04月15日

Water is at the heart of Hallstein’s business and its charitable giving

Anyone who knows a thing or two about fine wines will understand the vital role played by terroir. A region’s unique climate and the minerals and nutrients held in its soils are all fundamental elements in the complex alchemy that produces a world-beating vintage.

环境 · 2021年03月23日

On is designing a more circular and sustainable future

In Conversation with Viviane Gut, Head of Sustainability at On

环境 · 2020年02月17日

How the private members’ club is being reimagined as an ethical forum

If you needed any further proof that ethical is now both aspirational and desirable, then you need only step through the doors of The Conduit.

环境 · 2020年01月30日

How a new ‘micro-drink’ is disrupting the USD 600bn beverage industry

While working at the Boston Consulting Group, Martin Murray harboured a desire to venture into the beverage industry.