While innovation is central to the low-carbon transition, the best solution in some cases is to scale up a technique that is already known and proven, Dutch landscape ecologist Victor Beumer told a meeting in Deauville, France last week. Sometimes, “you need to stop regarding a solution as innovative and acknowledge that it has become normalized, boring, passé even,” Murray writes. “In fact, this should be the point you are aiming for. That is when you have made it.”
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