Businesses in some of the highest energy-con¬suming and biggest carbon-emitting industries are behind many of these innovations. In the auto industry, Rolls-Royce, for instance, filed 425 patent applications in 2008, a record number for the company, which invested £885 million in re¬search and development that year, "a significant proportion" of which was aimed at reducing the environmental impact of its products. The global aviation industry, meanwhile, has agreed to cut its net carbon emiss ...
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