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Sustainable Aviation: Emerging Trends and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

By 2026, the global market for commercial aircraft is projected to reach around $70 billion , up from $55 billion in 2019. The US Transportation Secretary Pete Buttigieg recently pledged that America will achieve carbon neutrality for its aviation sector by 2050. The market for freighter aircraft is projected to grow by around 4.5%

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Driverless Cars Will Change Auto Insurance. Here’s How Insurers Can Adapt

Harvard Business

Our forecast shows that the drop in individual premiums – due both to decreased private ownership vehicles and to safer vehicles — will begin in 2026, as large numbers of autonomous vehicles begin to appear, and could be as much as a $25 billion loss for insurers by 2035. This is significant for a roughly $200 billion market.

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Clean Energy Transition: Business Risks and Opportunities

Tom Spencer

There will be some clear winners in the clean energy transition, namely more developed countries. Assuming energy can be produced via clean methods and transported to its intended destination, there will be one other key bottleneck to overcome: electricity storage. Figure 4 : Final energy demand, 2016 – 2050. Waste Removal.

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