14. Taking Innovation to a Higher Altitude

They said it was impossible to produce enough energy from the sun to power an airplane. But Bertrand Piccard did it. And he flew that plane around the world. It took a larger wingspan, a lighter aircraft, and a commitment to showing how protecting the environment does not have to reduce quality of life. Bertrand joined ClimateBiz to discuss his Solar Impulse Foundation (https://solarimpulse.com/) and how it builds on the success of the solar plane to scale up 1,000 profitable, innovative climate solutions. Here are a couple of reports mentioned during this episode’s news roundup: -          Transition Pathway Initiative report (http://www.lse.ac.uk/GranthamInstitute/tpi/wp-content/uploads/2019/07/TPI-State-of-Transition-Report-2019-1.pdf) that only one out of every eight of the world’s largest GHG-emitting companies are meeting their climate goals. -          13 ways where machine learning can help solve climate change (https://arxiv.org/pdf/1906.05433.pdf)