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This week's top stories of the week include:

0:15 3 firms lead zero-emission shipping – 99% of cargo ships are powered by oil-based fuels. The shipping sector generates almost 3% of global CO2 emissions as a result. Switching from oil to hydrogen-derived fuels is one of the best ways to cut these emissions.

2:34 How Beijing reduced air pollution – Since 2013, PM2.5 pollution has fallen by a massive 64% in the Chinese capital. Harmful nitrogen dioxide has fallen by 54% while sulphur dioxide has dropped by 89%. Beijing has increased the number of ‘good air days’ from just 13 in 2013 to more than 300 in 2023.

5:58 Transforming finance for women in Tanzania – Victoria Kisyombe knows about the financial challenges facing Tanzanian women. She launched Sero Lease and Finance Limited or Selfina. It leases productive assets such as milling machines, tractors and oil presses to women so they can generate income and build up their own equity

9:49 Japan plans ‘conveyor belt’ transport – The conveyor belt would occupy the middle of an existing highway and transport closet-sized containers in groups of 3, 24 hours a day. The conveyor belt would firstly reduce traffic congestion on major highways, secondly, cut transport emissions and thirdly, tackle Japan’s growing labour shortage.

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