Here’s what cities can do to catalyze sustainable development
Last year, all 193 countries represented at the United Nations formally agreed to a set of Sustainable Development Goals.
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Last year, all 193 countries represented at the United Nations formally agreed to a set of Sustainable Development Goals.
Water is complicated. We know that life depends on it and cities rely on it to thrive.
If you lived in New Orleans or New Jersey during the fallout from hurricanes Katrina and Sandy, resilience in the face of extreme weather isn't an abstract concept.
We live in an increasingly mobile world, globalized. Yet, social mobility remains limited.
I was recently asked by a client where I thought smart cities would be in five years’ time, by the end of 2021.
Part of the path toward mitigating climate change and preventing the earth’s temperature from rising above 2 degrees Celsius involves increasing investment in both renewable energy and energy efficiency projects.
Meeting the ambitious climate change targets agreed upon in Paris last December will require deep transformation of the global economy—especially in energy systems, transportation systems, and industry—over the next several decades.
The capability of the Internet of Things is nothing short of transformational: Collect vast amounts of data from sensor-laden objects, which then communicate and take action after analyzing their collective data.
What are the driving factors for banks to sign onto a voluntary statement on integrating climate mitigation into their workflow?
Pick any physicist out of a lineup and they likely will tell you they are running out of adjectives to describe the magnitude of the planetary roasting experiment we humans have instigated.