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Access to reliable, affordable and clean energy is increasingly recognized as the “golden thread” tying together and enabling many other Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Despite progress over the last decade in making solutions to energy poverty more accessible to the more than 800 million people currently without electricity (and the many more with intermittent or…

Step into any hospital or healthcare facility and you’ll be surrounded not only by clinical, administrative, and operational staff, but also by patients, visitors, and vendor representatives. With so many people traversing the hospital daily, protecting them can feel quite challenging. Until recently, almost anyone could enter a hospital with relative ease. Today, while many…

Greetings from Iceland! The land of midnight sun, spectacular waterfalls and adorable ponies with 1980s rocker hair. I’m here this week looking into how this little country is on the road to decarbonization. The island nation has adopted an incredible goal of being fossil fuel-free by 2040, which would be a global first. The country…

The Race to Zero campaign has significantly raised the threshold that investors, companies, cities and sub-national governments must meet to credibly claim to be working towards net-zero emissions by mid-century, in a move that should, in theory, turbocharge the near-term decarbonization of corporate and investment activity around the world. The group, an initiative from the…

The renewable energy sector faces a monumental task: power the transition to clean energy economies needed to stem the tide of climate change, while ensuring the move is just, inclusive and protective of both people and planet. Investment in renewable energy is rapidly accelerating, as companies compete to produce the technology needed to support the…

  Digital twins technology, combined with broadband and Internet of Things, can help dramatically reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate climate change. We all can relate to the experience of being in a building that is either over-heated or over-cooled with seemingly little connection to the time of day or year. In buildings where this…