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Breakthrough: Business leaders, market revolutions
Business is increasingly critical in tackling the world’s great environmental, social and governance challenges. And at the heart of business sits the C-Suite, the grouping of senior executives who direct the enterprise. Breakthrough is addressed to...
The risks and opportunities of building a sustainable energy future
Swiss Re report investigates how the global energy mix will take shape and the impact of sustainable energy sources on climate change Report uses a scenario-based approach to outline possible energy futures and provides a framework for...
Agricultural insurance improves food security globally
One in eight people in emerging markets suffer from hunger and malnutrition. Agricultural insurance is an indispensable part of agricultural risk management and helps to smooth farm income as well as incentivise food investment. Agricultural insurance...
New investment in clean energy fell by 11 per cent in 2012
Clean energy investment declined 11 per cent in 2012, weighed down by regulatory uncertainty and policy changes in big markets such as the US, India, Spain and Italy. Sharply lower …
Green game-changers: Insights for mainstreaming business innovation
WWF's new report features 10 larger businesses that draw from entrepreneurial activity and are taking innovation forward at a grand scale.
Climate change, energy & businesses - quantifying the impacts to 2040
There is no reason - neither technical nor financial - why the world economy should not be powered by renewable energy by 2040. However, a comprehensive energy infrastructure transformation would …
Latest Agricultural Technology Innovation
Changes in the way food is grown will soon represent risk to existing dominant players worldwide and create new opportunities in agriculture.
The Emissions Gap Report 2012
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International Wind Energy Development: Offshore Report 2013
BTM Consult, a premier forecaster and data source for the international wind industry and part of Navigant's Global Energy Practice, released "International Wind Energy Development: Offshore Report 2013."
World Energy Outlook 2012
The 2012 edition of the World Energy Outlook was released on 12 November and presents authoritative projections of energy trends through to 2035 and insights into what they mean for …
PwC Low Carbon Economy Index 2012: Too late for two degrees?
The annual PwC Low Carbon Economy Index centres on one core statistic: the rate of change of global carbon intensity. This year we estimated that the required improvement in global carbon intensity to meet a 2ºC warming target has risen to 5.1 per...
Bankrolling Climate Disruption: the Impacts of the Banking Sector’s Financed Emissions
Rising concentrations of greenhouse gases in the atmosphere have begun to disrupt the global climate, triggering extreme weather events around the globe in recent years. To address this growing climate crisis, the global economy must rapidly transition to...
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