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ESG – report, resolve or rethink?

ESG reporting is no longer a “nice to have” – but does it look backwards or forwards? ESG reporting –  ground rules still being written The market value – and future potential – of a company no longer relies just on financial information and data. There’s a (relatively) new narrative in town … Environmental, social and governance (ESG) criteria are an increasingly important part...

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Agrivoltaics as a bellwether for “how” rethinks about solar power

New approaches to thinking about agrivoltaic installations – next-generation disruption? In my professional capacity as a development consultant, one of the client technologies I work with is a small-but-growing specialist corner of the solar energy express train – agrivoltaics. At root, agrivoltaics involve the co-locating of agriculture activities and photovoltaic panels for generating solar energy. Instead of the unfortunate either/or option presented by...

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Car restoration – peccadillos of the rich or the “right to repair”?

At its huge facility in the Philippines, Byrnes Motor Trust Restoration Inc. is rethinking the business model for restoring old cars – at scale Restoring classic cars – a strange kettle of fish Classic car collecting and the parallel feeder-vein restoration is a singularly strange phenomenon, with facets reaching out into very different dimensions of human endeavour and ambition. It is a field tugged...

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