Wind power: only 0.6% [of world energy production] and you have a very large untapped potential... Mostly the closer you get to the poles, the more w… - Bjarke Ingels

[I]f you want to look at how much carbon we're releasing into the atmosphere every year, ...a 2 x 2 x 2 kilometer cube... of solid coal, or 35,000 oil tankers.

We are preparing to start phase one of our most significant project... the first carbon neutral island in Central Asia. ...BIG has become a sort of urban laboratory where we develop prototypes, breed species and evolve ideas that will... add to the topography of Zira... [and] the ecosystem of Azerbaijan.

In a similar loop, methane only stays in the atmosphere for 9 years, but because every year we're releasing another 10 million tons, primarily because of rice fields and animals, it's also adding to the equation...