{"id":8949,"date":"2025-04-11T10:42:00","date_gmt":"2025-04-11T03:42:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/globalcompact-th.com\/articles\/5-tech-innovations-that-could-save-us-from-climate-change-power-generation-transport-food-manufacturing-buildings\/"},"modified":"2025-11-06T21:50:44","modified_gmt":"2025-11-06T14:50:44","slug":"5-tech-innovations-that-could-save-us-from-climate-change-power-generation-transport-food-manufacturing-buildings","status":"publish","type":"articles","link":"https:\/\/globalcompact-th.com\/en\/articles\/5-tech-innovations-that-could-save-us-from-climate-change-power-generation-transport-food-manufacturing-buildings\/","title":{"rendered":"5 tech innovations that could save us from climate change: Power generation, Transport, Food, Manufacturing, Buildings"},"content":{"rendered":"
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New technologies are helping to fight global warming<\/div>\n
Image: Roxanne Desgagnes<\/div>\n
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The year 2016 was historic in many ways. One of its most significant moments happened when the Paris Agreement on Climate Change<\/a> came into force.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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But tech giant and philanthropist Bill Gates argues that we need much more than a cut in global emissions to solve our climate problem \u2013 “we need an energy miracle,\u201d he says.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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So he, along with some of the world\u2019s richest people, have launched a fund<\/a> to invest in solutions driven by technology. It will bring together governments and research institutions and billionaire investors who will try to limit climate change.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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These are five technological innovations that could help them achieve their goal.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Power generation<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We already know that nuclear power is a way of producing electricity free of carbon emissions, but we have yet to harness it in a way that is truly safe and cost-effective. We may be closer to an answer, however.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Canadian company General Fusion<\/a> aims to be the first in the world to create a commercially viable nuclear-fusion-energy power plant.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cFusion produces zero greenhouse gas emissions, emitting only helium as exhaust. It also requires less land than other renewable technologies,\u201d says the company. \u201cFusion energy is inherently safe, with zero possibility of a meltdown scenario and no long-lived waste, and there is enough fusion fuel to power the planet for hundreds of millions of years.\u201d<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Image: General Fusion<\/div>\n<\/figcaption><\/figure>\n
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Transport<\/strong><\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Transport represents 23% of global energy-related CO2 emissions<\/a>. But the demand for transport is only going to increase.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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We have already found alternative ways of powering vehicles, such as with electricity, but in order to do it on a wide scale, we need much more efficient batteries and much more efficient battery-charging technology.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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Researchers at the University of Surrey say they have made a scientific breakthrough<\/a> in this regard. They say they have discovered new materials offering an alternative to battery power and proven to be between 1,000-10,000 times more powerful than the existing battery alternative, a supercapacitor.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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\u201cThe new technology is believed to have the potential for electric cars to travel to similar distances as petrol cars without the need to stop for lengthy recharging breaks of between 6 and 8 hours, and instead recharge fully in the time it takes to fill a regular car with petrol,\u201d says the university.<\/p>\n<\/div>\n

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