From carbon-lite AI to recycled human hair, Eco-Business sifts through the technologies that tackled environmental and social problems in a year that artificial intelligence use exploded and climate impacts intensified.
The latest Global Environment Outlook report emphasised the need to invest against the trillion-dollar losses from climate change, biodiversity loss and land degradation. This includes overhauling fossil fuel subsidies and pricing in pollution.
Cutting emissions in line with the 1.5°C warming limit, rather than following current climate policies, could curb long-term sea level rise by 64 centimetres, a new study says.