Category: Technology
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Railway’s Essential Digitalisation
Demand for transport is set to double by 2050. Favouring high-speed rail over short-distance air or road travel is essential to alleviate the transport sector’s energy intensity and curb emissions increase. In France, transportation produces 30% of total emissions, but rail represents only a marginal 0.6%. Rail is already the most electrified mode of transport […]
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Four FoodTech Champions
Environmental awareness has grown exponentially since the 2015 Paris Climate Agreements. Each year, we become increasingly aware of a particular pressing issue. 2018 was the year of plastics, as images of beaches inundated the web, demonstrating the extent of our societies’ waste disposal inefficacy. In 2019, we watched the Amazon burn. What we fail to […]
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Is sustainability the right path for cultured meat?
Above are pictures taken from JUST Meat’s promotional video, displaying what CEO Joshua Tetrick calls an out of body experience. Happy friends sat outside eating nuggets are joined by an unlikely member – Ian the chicken. Running around, Ian is unaware that they are eating him, or at least part of him. Such a scene […]
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Combatting illegal fishing in West Africa – the potential of blockchain
Government ban on fishing On 1st April, a one-month ban on fishing and exportation by foreign fishing corporations came into effect in the small West African state of Sierra Leone. The aim is to prevent the exhaustion of fish stocks, caused by widespread Illegal, Unreported and Unregulated (IUU) fishing. Estimates by the Sea Around Us […]
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Ends don’t justify the means – Backlash of sustainability in the DRC
Do you know how your phone is made? Two major advances have dominated the tech scene in the last decade – the mass adoption of mobile phones and the progressive shift towards electric mobility, which respectively, have induced a structural reconfiguration of social norms and urban planning. Cell phones have become indispensable in enabling worldwide […]
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