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Perspective: The UN Approval Process for Carbon Offsets

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This article discusses the process by which the UN approves carbon offsets and the flaws associated with this process. The other goal, of course, is the system’s ultimate purpose: to reduce greenhouse-gas emissions by channeling funds into cleaner technologies. THE APPROVAL PROCESS.

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How the IBM PC Won, Then Lost, the Personal Computer Market

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It did not matter that Microsoft's software was notorious for having bugs or that IBM's was far cleaner. This article is based on excerpts from IBM: The Rise and Fall and Reinvention of a Global Icon (MIT Press, 2019). An abridged version of this article appears in the August 2021 print issue as “A Tool for Modern Times.".

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The raw materials crunch: How bad, how long, how to solve it?

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“There is no question that the price of lithium has been rising, which affects the cost of all lithium-ion batteries,” says Tim Poor, President of Advanced Cell Engineering , a Florida-based company that specializes in LFP and LM:FP chemistries. This article appeared in Issue 60: April-June 2022 – Subscribe now.

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Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

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This article discusses: (a) why the focus should have been on the transfer of proven renewable energy technology from developed to developing countries; and (b) how this technology transfer can be financed with currently available funds. Leonardo da Vinci stated it best when he said, “Simplicity is the highest form of sophistication.”