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Bucharest tops ranking of smart city projects, report shows

The Smart Cities report, compiled by Vegacomp Consulting, has reached its sixth edition this year Taken together, Bucharest’s general city hall and the capital’s sectorial city halls ran the smartest city projects, according to the Scanning Smart Cities in Romania report for 2022.Broken down across individual city halls, Cluj-Napoca (63) becomes the city with the most numerous smart city…

The 8th edition of the FIWARE Global Summit, a reference event of innovation and digital transformation, goes to Gran Canaria

The Summit will present the latest innovations in technologies such as blockchain, artificial intelligence, digital twins or robotics with special attention to the development of data spaces and data models in strategic economic sectors such as Smart Cities, Smart Industry, Smart AgriFood, Smart Energy and Smart Water Hosted and supported by SPEGC and Cabildo Gran…

Oxford Science Enterprises raises £250 million to support University innovations

New funding will drive the creation and growth of transformational businesses built on ground-breaking Oxford research Oxford Science Enterprises (OSE), the independent investment company created to found, fund and build transformational businesses based on University research, has raised a further £250 million ($300 million) in funding. This brings the total amount raised by OSE to…

Closing the gender gap for women could help economies out of the crisis. Here’s how

The report, now in its 16th year, benchmarks the evolution of gender-based gaps in four areas. This article is part of "Centre for the New Economy and Society" The current recession, unlike past economic slumps that have tended to be worse for men, is disproportionately bad for women. It comes after a period where the…

Ahmedabad, India, joins C40 Cities to accelerate urban climate actions

Ahmedabad, India, is joining C40 Cities as a mega city member to accelerate climate resilience and sustainable development C40’s Steering Committee approved Ahmedabad’s membership application on June 30. The city is the tenth to join C40 from South and West Asia, and the sixth from India. Ahmedabad is a fast-growing city of approximately 8.2 million…

Millions at risk from extreme heat unless climate goals are met

The analysis, released today by researchers at the University of Manchester for Friends of the Earth, identifies the areas and communities across England set to be hardest hit by extreme heat Health-threatening heatwaves will become more intense due to climate change, putting millions more people at risk from dangerous summer temperatures, new research reveals. The…

Five Stolen Paintings Go on Display in Virtual Reality

The exhibition displays artworks that were taken from museums around the world Wearing a VR headset, standing in darkness, “the only thing you really are paying attention to is the art piece,” he says. Some of the interactive elements are similar to what users might expect to find in a museum. For example, audio descriptions…

Women in the health and care sector earn 24 percent less than men

The most comprehensive global analysis of gender pay inequalities in the health and care sector finds that women face a larger gender pay gap than other economic sectors Women in the health and care sector face a larger gender pay gap than in other economic sectors, earning on average of 24 percent less than peers who are men, according to…

Tourism statistics inform UN reports on sustainable development

A United Nations global assessment of progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) makes clear the important role that tourism must play in achieving the ambitious agenda for change Launched at the High-Level Political Forum on Sustainable Development, which this year is held around the theme of ‘building back better’ from the pandemic, the UN…

Waste incineration and ‘recycled carbon fuel’, putting stokes in the renewable energy wheel

A recent study showed that plastic-derived fuel produces higher exhaust emissions compared to diesel The Committee on Industry, Research and Energy (ITRE) – European Parliaments’ lead committee on the revision of the Renewable Energy Directive (RED) – called for the Member States to take measures to ensure that energy from biomass is produced in a way that…