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New report calls for urgent action to reduce material use in key industries

Current Net Zero strategies in the materials production sectors are insufficient to meet climate targets Urgent action is needed to reduce material use in key industries to avoid unprecedented climate change, according to new research by Zero Waste Europe (ZWE) and Eunomia Research & Consulting. Failure to act soon could mean exhausting the remaining carbon…

New Taipei City, Taiwan Named the Intelligent Community of the Year 2022

New Taipei City is the Fourth Taiwanese City to Be Named in the History of the Awards Program For the second time in four years, the Intelligent Community Forum honored a Taiwanese city with its top award today when it named New Taipei City as its 2022 Intelligent Community of the Year. New Taipei City had been…

Schneider Electric calls to embrace digitization to accelerate sustainability and efficiency

Schneider Electric’s active partnership with Hang Lung Properties and Ernst & Young, to help them make a positive impact on sustainable development Schneider Electric, the leader in the digital transformation of energy management and automation, today kicked off its Innovation Summit Hong Kong 2022 with a passionate call to accelerate digitalization for a more sustainable…

Chemical clues to the mystery of what’s coating Stradivari’s violins

A Nanofocused Light on Stradivari Violins: Infrared s-SNOM Reveals New Clues Behind Craftsmanship Mastery Stradivarius violins produce elegant music with a level of clarity that is unparalleled by modern instruments, according to some musicians. And it’s the finishing touches — mysterious treatments applied hundreds of years ago by Antonio Stradivari — that contribute to their…

Exploring the ways cities can secure the green finance needed to take urgent and united climate action

The level of finance flowing to cities falls far short of what is needed to enable adequate climate investments The level of finance flowing to cities falls far short of what is needed to enable adequate climate investments. This is particularly acute for emerging economies in the Global South, where communities face the worst climate…

New system converts sewage to biogas

Researchers have developed a new method to convert leftover sludge to biogas, lowering waste treatment costs and helping the environment A Washington State University research team has tested a pre-treatment technology in waste management systems, adding an extra step to typical treatments and using oxygen-containing high-pressure steam to break down sewage sludge. It was found that…

The First Female Crash Dummy Has Arrived

Women are more likely to get injured in car crashes, but the currently available test dummies don’t reflect the average female body Compared to men, women are 17 percent more likely to die in a car crash and 73 percent more likely to sustain serious injuries in a front-end collision. Yet despite these discrepancies, car…

Disrupting Plastic Recylcing City Solution of the Year Automedi to Receive $100,000

By capturing waste when it is thrown out and turning it into commodity products, Automedi is committed to shaping new standards of care through health science innovation and paving the way to a more sustainable future The 2022 QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge, hosted by Leading Cities in partnership with QBE Insurance Group, concluded today with…

Professor Myles Allen, the physicist behind net zero

“It’s perfectly possible to remove CO2 from the atmosphere “ Professor Myles Allen is such a powerful advocate for the environment that he was dubbed ‘the physicist behind Net Zero’ by the BBC and is regularly asked for comment on all things related to climate and weather. But Oxford’s Professor for Geosystem Science is a scientist,…

The Titanium Economy: How to overcome the challenge of filling high-quality Jobs

Thriving industrial technology companies use apprenticeships, upskilling, and upward mobility to staff and retain their workforce This is the second article in a series about the Titanium Economy. In future articles, we will dive deeper into sustainability in industries and trends that will disrupt the industry. In recent decades, headlines have chronicled the decline of…