Thematic: Climate Change

National Geographic calculated that of the 8 million tons of plastic deposited into the world’s oceans each year, only 0.025 percent is comprised of plastic straws.

This article is the best we’ve come across that outlines the absolute scale of the challenge and the size of the opportunity in the energy transition.

As the world starts to face the challenge of climate change head on, wealthier nations have been asked to put their money where their mouth is and help fund the energy transition for developing countries.

This article, published in The Guardian, has been written by a graduate of an online training course created by America’s National Cattlemen’s Beef Association called the Masters of Beef Advocacy program.

While we were travelling in America, one business story seemed to pop up again and again: American beer companies going ‘woke’.

We uncover Danimer Scientific, an American biotechnology company working to replace fossil-fuel based plastics with vegetable based bioplastics.

With estimates that $194 trillion needs to be invested between today and 2050 to achieve net zero, this will be the biggest collective human undertaking of our lifetime. The good news is that the early investments do appear to have yielded some change. Now we just have to supercharge it.

This article from the New Yorker looks at the world of solar geoengineers and the concerns they have about their work ever being used.

Future Generation conduct an in-depth interview with Kyle Macintyre from Firetrail Investments.

This articles reviews the work of a $50 million partnership between the British National Environmental Research Council and the U.S. National Science Foundation to examine the Thwaites Glacier in the west of Antarctica.

Munro Partners give an overview of a stock, they believe will continue to benefit from the decarbonisation of the planet.

Munro Partners give an overview of a stock set to benefit from the United States energy transition.

Megatrends are defined as macroeconomic changes we are seeing on a global scale that are transforming economies, businesses and societies. WAM Alternative Assets focuses on four key megatrends including: digitalisation, demographical shifts and ageing populations, climate change and the increasing demand for food.