Sustainability

For Tesla, the Secret Master Plan has always been to get to the mass market Model 3, and from there into the battery business. The goal is the transformation to a low carbon economy – not to build a profitable car company.

Although electric vehicles are beginning to make inroads into the passenger car market in developed markets, for the foreseeable future the Internal Combustion Engine (ICE) will continue to dominate road transport in developing countries and in the global truck sector.

I am a climate change activist and an environmentalist. The sense of how fast all of our systems are approaching breaking point is what drives me to ensure that denial and fear do not get in the way of action.

Q&A with Vinicius Lummertz, President of Embratur, the Brazilian Tourism Board: "According to the World Economic Forum, no country has natural resources with more potential for tourism than Brazil."

We need to consider that the rise of economies is often directly correlated with a rise in emissions. So how do we decouple the two? The solution lies in changing energy technologies and behaviors, while working to mitigate the current scenario.

Mining companies have put the excesses of the commodity boom behind them and are refocusing their investments on innovation.

In a world dominated by mass tourism, cheap flights and millennials with bucket lists, the thrills of adventure and exploration can be hard to come by for even the most sophisticated travelers.

Just as the steam engine has come to symbolize the industrial revolution of the 19th century, perhaps no single object represents the democratic, consumer-centered economies of the 20th century better than the mass-produced automobile.

"Smart grids are the necessary support to the rise of renewable energy and the emergence of consumers who generate their own electricity." Livio Gallo, Head of Global Infrastructure and Networks, Enel

Around the world, oil majors are increasingly exploring the potential to create new business by breaking down hydrocarbons into their constituent parts of hydrogen and carbon and developing new uses for them. Aramco is emerging as a pioneer in the development of technologies for the production and distribution of hydrogen.