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Small Modular Reactors: Nuclear Power’s Last Roll Of The Dice?

The debate is currently raging as to whether or not nuclear power should be part of the future low carbon energy mix. The West’s nuclear building boom of the 1970s is a distant memory and the current fleet of aging reactors have already started to be phased out. This is not universally the case. In…

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Green Savings Bond: What Is It and Where Does the Money Go?

At the March 2021 Budget the UK Chancellor of the Exchequer, Rishi Sunak, announced the creation of a Green Savings Bond. This savings product would be available to UK savers via NS&I (National Savings and Investment), the same organisation which offers Premium Bonds, and whose proceeds will be used to support green investment in the…

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Four ‘Pure Play’ UK Solar Investment Trusts

Many investment trusts, companies, or funds focused on renewables invest in a range of different technologies and assets. This diversification can spread the risk. However, there are also ‘pure play’ renewable investments which typically invest in one sector [1]. These are only exposed to one renewable sub-sector, such as wind or solar. These wind or…

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Difference between Market-based and Location-based Scope 2 Emissions

When reporting on their carbon emissions organisations commonly breakdown their emissions using the scope framework: Scope 1: Direct emissions Scope 2: Indirect emissions from the purchase energy Scope 3: Other indirect emissions In brief: scope 1 relates to emissions which “occur from sources that are owned or controlled by the company” [1], scope 2 relates…

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Why Care About Green Finance In The First Place?

Every so often it is good to reflect on why you are doing what you are doing. Without a regular period of reflection there is a risk that you could fall into a predictable pattern of arguments, repeating the same old cliches, getting inexplicably angry with anyone who takes an opposing view, and ultimately drifting…

The Electric F-150: Ford’s (and the World’s) Path To An Electric Future

If there is any one secret of success, it lies in the ability to get the other person’s point of view and see things from that person’s angle as well as from your own – Henry Ford (attributed [1]) Existing carbon intensive companies have a tricky balancing act to perform as society pivots to a…