February - 2020

Snippets for 27 February 2020

Thanks for reading Snippets this week. Initially we look at risk and how assessing climate change investment and insurance risks is becoming more high profile, and likely to be ever more so, for businesses and countries. China is an example, with its coal plants, and what to do with these to minimise the country’s emissions? Maybe hydrogen will solve the problem of having to move away from coal, as it is doing in a Norwegian steel plant. Kiwis may soon have access to hydrogen

Hydrology 27 February 2020

Storage chart provided courtesy of Energy Link

Snippets for 13 February 2020

Snippets this week examines the role of nature in reducing greenhouse gas emissions and the potential to sequester some 12 gigatonnes of CO2 per year. Working with nature, also means we need to protect it so that it can flourish, thrive and regenerate. Farming is also in the process of transforming itself, with regenerative agriculture high on the agenda, in an effort to improve soil quality and to grow crops that have long roots to sequester carbon. The corporate company’s D