Moroo Shino is the president and CEO of Marubeni Asian Power, an independent power producer in Japan.
Shino discusses the investments his company is making to accelerate the world s energy transition.
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Japanese conglomerate Marubeni now has more than 100 years of innovation to look back on. Moroo Shino, president and CEO of Marubeni Asian Power, says that as a large independent power producer, it has a social responsibility to facilitate the energy transition and the development of new technology solutions such as hydrogen.
What sort of energy infrastructure investments do you think we need to achieve net-zero carbon emissions?
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Hydrogen plays an important role in combatting climate change but its production still has a way to go.
Industries must integrate new technologies into our energy systems and economies to achieve a zero-carbon future.
This article is part of Changemakers Playbook, a series that looks at innovation across different industries.
Hydrogen has a crucial role to play in decarbonization. How can we make it happen?
The race to net zero is on, and taking part is no longer optional, meaning we have no choice but to explore new technologies and integrate them into our energy systems and economies.
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It kills 7 million people a year and causes diseases including lung cancer and pneumonia.
Peter Sänger, a horticulturist turned entrepreneur, founded Green City Solutions to develop solutions to the problem that combine technology and sustainability.
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What if a city bench could provide a place not just to sit but also to breathe a little easier? That s the idea behind CityTree, a 14-foot-high moss-covered, energy-efficient bench and air purifier that is popping up in cities throughout Europe and Asia. The ingenious piece of urban furniture uses the natural ability of living moss to bind with fine particles and remove them from the air up to 82% of them and Internet of Things (IoT) technology to measure and adjust its performance in real time.
Backx discusses his company s strategies for breeding better potatoes through a sustainable supply chain.
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Potato seed provider HZPC is looking at how to embed more sustainability in its supply chain. But that is not all: CEO Gerard Backx tells us the company is also trying to breed better potatoes.
How are you making your potato seed business more sustainable?
I had a lot of problems to solve in the beginning, and we only really started to work on corporate social responsibility 10 years ago. When I thought about what we could do, my initial feeling was that seeds are a food source so there isn t much to improve upon.