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Diego, which emerging climate
technologies aren't receiving

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enough attention?

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Well in my perspective, a lot of
the emerging technologies that

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got the attention in the last
years are related to

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low-investment assets. So
digital stuff, AI and things

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like that.

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But there are a lot of
technologies that could actually

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bring implementation up to speed
in terms of climate change and

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CO2 reductions. And those are,
by example, direct air capture

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or some of the sequestration
technologies that are not

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directly putting the CO2
underground, but more into the

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ocean. And then some
technologies where you can use

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CO2 to produce materials. So
carbon capture utilization. On

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top of that, things related to
energy, by example, hydrogen and

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nuclear energy haven't had the
attention they deserve. So I

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think those five are the most
interesting in my perspective.

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And there's a lot of talk here
about finance, but what about

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the science problem? What's
keeping impact tech out of

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reach?                          
   - I think there are mainly

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three problems. One is a
strategic one, the second is

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tactical and then the third one
is technical. The strategic one

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is related to the partnerships.
I think when you think about the

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process science needs to get
deployed, it's first discovery,

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then

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development, and then
deployment. In between those

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three blocks, you require
partnerships and scientists are

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not always approaching the right
people, but specifically they

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are not using the right
communication style.

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I think scientists require, to
get closer to the financial

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people, to the commercial
people, to the marketing people,

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to be able to communicate
properly where they want to say.

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That's from a strategic
perspective. And communication

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wise, it's very linked to it.
The style and the words used to

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convey a message to the market,
that is the one who at the end

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is going to decide what to buy,
is not getting to the mass. The

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communication about climate
change, about the key metrics,

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is not always clear. So when
changing the wording and making

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the mass understand what is on
stake might change also the

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decision on what to buy and
consequently what to produce.

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And finally,

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I think the materials developed
over the last years are not yet

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at the scale they need to be to
be deployed. And that means

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putting a lot of attention in,
by example, materials to absorb

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CO2, on new materials to reduce
the energy consumption in the

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processes and to make them with
a higher yield. So a lot of

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attention needs to go towards
synthetic biology, material

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science, and fermentation
processes. So I think the

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scientists need to focus on
those three things. - Well,

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Diego, thanks very much for
joining us. 

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Thank you so much for the
opportunity.

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