Environment

Umwelt · 21. Okt. 2024

Resilienz und Regeneration

Die langfristige Perspektive für unser Leben auf der Erde hängt entscheidend von der planetaren Resilienz durch Regeneration unserer Ökosystemleistungen ab, vom Klima bis hin zur Biodiversität. In diesem Q&A-Beitrag beleuchten wir, was damit gemeint ist und welche Auswirkungen dies auf Kapitalanlagen hat.

Umwelt · 13. Juni 2024

Curbing the tide of coral degradation

After witnessing the obliteration of a coral reef, due to rising sea temperatures, marine biologist Vriko Yu founded Archireef, a startup dedicated to the restoration of degraded marine environments using 3D printing technology

Umwelt · 5. Juni 2024

Klimakrise: Transitionsrisiken des Netto-Null-Ziels im Fokus

Auch wenn in Anlegerkreisen Konsens darüber herrschen dürfte, dass die Netto-Null-Wirtschaft nicht mehr nur eine Option ist, sondern eine zwingende Notwendigkeit, könnte der Übergangsprozess in den nächsten fünf bis sieben Jahren für erhebliche Verwerfungen sorgen. Zu diesem Ergebnis kommt eine von Pictet Asset Management in Auftrag gegebene Studie des Institute of International Finance (IIF).

Umwelt · 8. Mai 2024

Pioneering sustainable solutions in waste management

Successfully taking over a family business is perhaps no easy task, but Iiro Kankaansyrjä has transformed and streamlined his father’s 40-year-old Finnish waste management company, Kapasity Oy, and launched a tech-driven startup, EasyWaste.

Umwelt · 20. Dez. 2023

Closing the loop in textile recycling

It is not possible to recycle most fabrics with current methods, meaning millions of tons of clothes that are thrown away each year end up in landfill. Sydney-based startup Phoenxt has developed innovative chemical processes that successfully turn old garments into beautiful new textiles.

Umwelt · 15. Dez. 2023

Sophie Chapman, EcoBricks

Paving the way with recycled plastics

Umwelt · 5. Dez. 2023

Reducing CO2 through eco-architecture

Buildings are responsible for a significant percentage of global carbon emissions, which is why trillions of dollars will be poured into green architecture in the next decade. But for pioneering Malaysian practice Hamzah and Yeang, ecological design has been its focus since the 1970s.

Umwelt · 10. Nov. 2023

Stemming the tide of plastic pollution

A Dutch startup has developed an effective method of trapping plastic pollution in waterways with bubbles. Their award-winning Bubble Barrier technology is already being implemented in the Netherlands and further afield in Europe, as they prepare to go international.

Umwelt · 23. Mai 2023

Calculating climate impact with each transaction

We calculate the financial cost of everything we do. Doconomy helps calculate the planetary cost.

Umwelt · 29. Nov. 2022

Raising the standards of carbon credit schemes

Niklas Kaskeala’s job is to make life difficult for his clients. The chief impact officer of Compensate is in the frontline of the war against greenwashing, and he has no hesitation in speaking truths that some may not want to hear.

Umwelt · 24. Nov. 2022

Turning waste products into carbon capture

The carbon reduction revolution is progressing at pace – and Carbo Culture is at the forefront.

Umwelt · 5. Okt. 2022

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.

Umwelt · 1. Sept. 2022

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?

Umwelt · 20. Juli 2022

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.

Umwelt · 7. Juli 2022

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.

Umwelt · 17. Mai 2022

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.

Umwelt · 26. Apr. 2022

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.

Umwelt · 21. Apr. 2022

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].

Umwelt · 14. Apr. 2022

Using Art to Change the World

Umwelt · 24. Nov. 2021

Demystifying Net Zero

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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.

Umwelt · 22. Sept. 2021

Sissel Tolaas wants to reconnect humanity through our sense of smell

Sissel Tolaas wants to reconnect humanity through our sense of smell

Umwelt · 1. Juli 2021

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.

Umwelt · 18. Mai 2021

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.

Umwelt · 23. Apr. 2021

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.

Umwelt · 15. Apr. 2021

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.

Umwelt · 23. März 2021

On is designing a more circular and sustainable future

In Conversation with Viviane Gut, Head of Sustainability at On

Umwelt · 17. Feb. 2020

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.

Umwelt · 30. Jan. 2020

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.