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Is it ethical to patent emerging climate tech?

GreenBiz

is fast-tracking patent applications for climate tech. Is this a good move?

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This summer, consider sustainable seafood

GreenBiz

Yet as a consumer, I’ve found it too daunting to evaluate whether the seafood at my restaurants or supermarkets are truly sustainable and ethical. . I’m well aware of many sustainable fishing initiatives and their economic importance. Hopefully, they help bring a better catch to your plate this summer. Kemp needs between one and 1.2

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10 Solar and Storage Trends for 2021

GreenTechMedia

Patent protection on these components, coupled with manufacturing scale and NEC rapid shutdown requirements, have created a significant barrier to entry for competing products. The module level power electronics duopoly will continue. Nevertheless, technology marches forward, so leaders must continue their innovation efforts to stay ahead.

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Fixing an inconvenient truth: A solution to unsustainable PCB metals extraction

Envirotec Magazine

Furthermore, all concerned must pursue ethical and sustainable product end of life recycling practices. With this, a key success factor in effectively closing the loop is a more sustainable and ethical method of extraction and recovery of PCB materials.

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Should the world ban solar geoengineering? 60 experts say yes.

Grist

Is it ethical to even research such technologies? The authors want governments to ban outdoor experiments and deployment of solar geoengineering, prohibit national funding agencies from providing financial support, and refuse patents for such technologies.

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Meet Our Members: Introducing Greentown’s Newest Startups of Q1 2021

Greentown Labs

Topl ’s blockchain ecosystem is built to prove ethical and sustainable practices, empowering businesses and other organizations to drastically cut certification costs and produce unprecedented trust and transparency around their ESG initiatives. Skytree ’s patented process employs a unique CO? filter that scrubs CO?

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Should we genetically edit the food we eat? Two experts offer their thoughts

Business Green

This is turn can invoke the idea that scientific progress interferes with nature, producing results which are unpredictable and ethically wrong. So of course they protect these innovations through patents and intellectual property rights. There's also the question of whether it is ethically correct for companies to own life.