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@green Says…
p02-04
Scientific, scalable &
sustainable farming
the trend
Gain Green will continue its foray
into scientific and high-tech
agriculture as it is the future trend
p04
Bright potential
Gain Green’s Revotropix Paulownia
plantation business catches eye of
the Deputy Plantation Industries
and Commodities Minister Willie
Mongin
• RTM2 features
Paulownia scientist
p05
Valuing nature
Deforestation and disruption
of ecosystem service such as
watersheds can cause human
displacement
p06-07
MPOB’s technologies
available for higher yield
Reopening of Indian and European
economies likely to lead to upward
stream in demand
• Never forget emissions
reduction
• Why Malaysian palm oil
is sustainable
p29
The silver
lining in
the clouds
They say there’s a reason for everything and
anything that happens, even if the outcomes are
sometimes fatal.
The two World Wars and the countless epidemics,
and the current Covid-19 pandemic
are some of these. These fateful events occur so that the
world’s balance remains intact.
Most of the world’s population today were not around
when the First World War killed 20 million people, and the
casualty during World War II was 85 million.
And there was the Spanish flu pandemic in 1918. That
killed about 50 million.
At the time of writing (July 15), Covid-19 had killed
605,000.
The Coronavirus had come out into the open because
human beings were destroying the habitat. Since it was
p24
Stopping climate change
There will be heightened demand for sustainable,
responsible and impactful investing over
the coming years
p26-27
Power from the sun
Photovoltaic technology very scalable
• Digital platform to trade
p28
Energy – a controllable resource
Using it efficiently helps to increase profits
by reducing costs
p29
Low rates, few takers
Several developers applied for 1MWac
to 50MWac sites
running out of hosts, the virus started to claim the
human body.
But that’s not what was impressive during the
lockdown.
For a change, while we used to visit animals in
the zoos, this time the wildlife had come to visit.
Again, to take back what was initially their’s.
And then, there was the quality of air. The smog
was gone. We could see the mountain tops. The
main casino on Genting Highlands was visible at
any time of day.
The European Space Agency (ESA) reported:
“The combined weather models, pollution measurements
from ground stations, and spectral data
from satellites support the idea that the shutdowns
were responsible, ruling out the weather as a confounding
factor.”
Using the Copernicus Sentinel 5-Precursor
(S5P), which can detect the spectral signatures
of specific gases, the ESA researchers measured
global nitrogen dioxide (NO2) levels that were 20
per cent and 75 per cent lower during the shutdown
period than during the same period in 2019.
It was ironic then that when the air was cleaner,
we had to stay indoors and wore a mask to venture
out, just like when the price of petrol dipped when
people had little or no use for it during the lockdown
periods.
It is still wonderful out there. Notice the annual
haze from the burning forests in Indonesia at this
time of year is not there.
We can now look up, at the clouds, and we can
see that silver lining.
p30
Double whammy
Pandemic and mild winter deliver historic shock to
the global natural gas market
p31
Renewables beat cheapest coal
Competitive power generation costs make investment in
renewables highly attractive
p24