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[15:22] “When the world wakes up to the potential of cobalt, and in the past few years starts thinking about electric car batteries, China is in this really strong position. […] China controls the overwhelming majority of the cobalt market there. In fact, it controls 15 of the 19 existing industrial cobalt mines in Congo.”

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[2:12] “Map Collective [is] a carbon tracking and supply chain transparency platform. So we really focus on creating a system and data visualization around the carbon accounting space to make sure that this is a really clear process. And also that there is clear communication, once those goals are set, and about how they're achieved, for companies, for governments and for individuals. […] Our goal is really to empower and to contextualize the complex climate science in a way that's easy for everyone to understand.”

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[6:38] DS: “I think we're at the point where [EV batteries] are good enough to be at an inflection point for market adoption. […] Market share globally for EVs doubled last year, it's up to around 9%, which is not huge, but it seems like it's really starting to take off. I don't know if that means that it meets everyone's needs, but at least it meets the needs of a decent sized segment.”

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[15:56] “From an impact standpoint, we actually went ahead and built an environmental calculator. […] If you look at using secondary materials, so recycled goods, [such as] waste steel, waste aluminum, waste copper, which is what we focus on, there is a net savings of CO2 if you were to use prime. So we basically looked at that net savings and said, what was our net CO2 reduction based on placing these materials on the market? And it was over 200,000 tons of CO2, and that's the equivalent of taking 43,000 passenger cars off the road.”

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[9:38] “I think the sites where you're charging cars will be the places where you get other services. So you don't actually spend extra time for charging. […] I think the gas station is the wrong term in the future, I think it's like a human service station, where you have other services, where the people need to stop anyway. […] In Europe, you see a lot of fast food chains and grocery stores investing in charging equipment.“

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[32:51] GC: “Why [is] there so little automation in reforestation? Today, it's humans carrying 40 pound bags of trees, on their hips, and then utilizing a shovel. And they're superheroes. They burn the caloric equivalent of running two marathons every day. […] That seems really inefficient and there's a high churn for people to be doing this work, because people just get physically exhausted. […] And that's really where we started with the drones.”

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[38:52] “The responses to climate change themselves are a new category of risk that we're concerned about. […] I think this is going to be a major theme also in […] the next assessment cycle that we'll be embarking on in a few years. […] One category of this is so called maladaptation. […] It's the inadvertent rising of risks when we're trying to manage one climate risk, and we're aggravating another one. […] Water management might be one example. You're trying to be able to get rid of a lot of water to deal with more extreme rainfall. But actually, you're aggravating your challenge once you've got to drought.”

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💧 Food & Water

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[0:32] JF: “Every day in America, around 6 billion gallons of clean, safe drinking water disappears. That water vanishes when water mains break and pipes leak. That's 9,000 Olympic sized swimming pools every day. “

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[10:55] “Kelp forests can be considered the […] counterparts of the rainforest. They are among the most species-rich communities in temperate seas and among the most productive ecosystems on Earth. […] Kelp forests are extensive underwater habitats that [range along] 25% of the world’s coastlines. […] These dense canopies of algae generally occur in […] cold nutrient rich waters. And because of their dependency […] for photosynthesis […] kelp forests form in shallow open waters. […] Kelp is not a plant, but actually an algae. Kelps are [one of] the fastest growing species […] [and] most productive of all living organisms on Earth.”

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[13:02] ER: “A so-called once in 100 year flood has now a higher probability or higher frequency, it's a once in a 20 year or 50 year event. […] Very often developing countries have less than 5%, sometimes less than 1%, of their economic losses covered by insurance solutions.”

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