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Building tomorrow’s cities today
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Geospatial data enables cities to map, analyse and optimise every aspect of infrastructure, from energy grids and transport networks, to utilities and environmental features.
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Climate science needs to talk more about ‘justice’
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Climate scientists have all kinds of language to discuss their scientific theories. But when it comes to values and justice, scientific language is less helpful. This matters, because when scientists claim a climate policy or scenario is “just”, they sometimes can’t or don’t explain what they actually mean.
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Education for sustainable development’s global learning space
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As the network of 190 Regional Centres of Expertise (RCEs) says on its website, the worldwide network of RCEs constitutes a “global learning space for sustainable development”. It exists to share education for sustainable development (ESD) ideas, learning and best practice.
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The Rise of Gulf Smart Cities
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Large-scale “smart city” projects have expanded across the globe—spreading across the Gulf, through the wider Middle East, and everywhere from India to Brazil. What’s more, many of these initiatives are fueled by the transfer and export of Chinese and other foreign technologies, indicating their potential as vehicles for geopolitical and economic influence while also raising human rights concerns.
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The spectacular Southeast Asian economic take-off
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Indeed, scientific and technological skills have become indispensable for growth and development.
Therefore, building skills and capacities is one of the significant and decisive elements in economic performance, both company and macroeconomic performance.
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Towards Sustainable Future: ESG Reporting
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The Middle East region is among the world’s most exposed states to human-caused climatic changes. Recent reports have suggested that the Middle East region is warming twice as fast as the global average and many fear that the region may face a temperature rise to 5 degrees by the end of the century
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Cement is a big problem for the environment
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It’s been said that if the cement industry were a country, it would be the world’s third or fourth-largest emitter of carbon dioxide (CO2). Global cement manufacturing produced 1.6 billion metric tonnes of CO2 in 2022, the latest year for which there are figures – that’s about 8% of the world’s total CO2 emissions.
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Sustainability ‘top concern’ for consumers, not for CEOs
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There has been a sharp decline in CEOs’ relative prioritisation of sustainability, as AI, growth, inflation, and geopolitical uncertainty have risen to the top of their agendas, according to the latest report released by Bain & Company.
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Deserts’ biggest threat? Flooding
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The source of such changes are as follows: increasing desertification has led to intensified droughts, and rainstorms in the region have increased in frequency due to the rising seawater temperature in the Eastern Mediterranean because of global warming.
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