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An Overview of Enabling and Sustaining Connected Communities Rooted in Solving Societal Challenges

The report showcases findings from an initiative involving three core groups: government and community leaders, academics, and funders America’s smart city journey, which is almost a decade-long*, has been defined by rapid evolution on several fronts. Of course technology has advanced, but what is more interesting (at least to me) is how cross-sector partnerships have…

5G as a catalyst for economic opportunities and innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa

5G offers a significant jump in speed and performance over 4G/LTE with real-world speeds above 200Mbps and dramatic improvements in latency Over the past two decades, mobile telecommunications has transformed the face of Sub-Saharan Africa, integrating hundreds of millions of people into the digital economy and creating a new industry worth billions of dollars a…

The ozone layer continues to slowly recover

The production and consumption of controlled ozone-depleting substances have been phased out up to 99%, thanks to the Montreal Protocol and its amendments. But it is important for long-term changes in the ozone layer to be well measured and their causes to be understood The first WMO Ozone and UV Bulletin has just been released. Prof. Petteri Taalas,…

Pepsico and Fertiberia are launching a pioneering programme to reduce emissions in potato farming

The two companies share the goal of reaching net zero emissions by acting as agents of change through innovation for a sustainable future in the Spanish agricultural sector PepsiCo and Fertiberia are joining forces to launch a pioneering pilot programme to reduce emissions in potato farming. The companies will achieve their goals using crop nutrition…

Key climate action highlights of the EU contribution to the Paris summit for a new global financing pact

The European Investment Bank (EIB) has committed to intensify its support for the Global South and to join innovative mechanisms to accelerate a just transition in developing countries In line with the call from the Paris Summit for a New Global Financing Pact, the European Investment Bank (EIB) has committed to intensify its support for the Global South and to…

Surprise! Weaker bonds can make polymers stronger

By adding weak linkers to a polymer network, chemists dramatically enhanced the material’s resistance to tearing A team of chemists from MIT and Duke University has discovered a counterintuitive way to make polymers stronger: introduce a few weaker bonds into the material. Working with a type of polymer known as polyacrylate elastomers, the researchers found…

EU invests €6.2 billion in sustainable, safe and efficient transport infrastructure

Maritime ports in Ireland, Greece, Spain, Latvia, Lithuania, the Netherlands and Poland will receive funding for developing on-shore power supply to reduce greenhouse gas emissions from moored vessels The Commission has selected 107 transport infrastructure projects to receive over €6 billion in EU grants from the Connecting Europe Facility (CEF), the EU's instrument for strategic investment in transport infrastructure. Over 80% of the…

China operators join GSMA Open Gateway initiative

The GSMA expanded membership to its Open Gateway initiative by adding China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom, taking support to 29 mobile operators globally China Mobile, China Telecom and China Unicom collectively handle 1.7 billion mobile connections, suggesting the Open Gateway initiative is gathering pace. The initiative provides a framework of common network APIs…

Oxford University to lead tidal energy project for carbon emission reduction and energy security

The University of Oxford is to lead an ambitious £7 million project to help deliver scalable, affordable and sustainable tidal stream energy. Besides boosting energy security, this could help enable tidal stream energy make a meaningful contribution to achieving UK Net Zero goals ‘Co-design to deliver Scalable Tidal Stream Energy’ (CoTide) will bring together three multi-disciplinary teams…

World Travel & Tourism Council & UNWTO Sign Historic MOU

In a historic first, the world’s two leading Travel & Tourism organisations representing the global public and private sectors agreed to work together across a number of key objectives The Memorandum of Understanding, signed today by the World Travel & Tourism Council (WTTC) and the World Tourism Organization of the United Nations (UNWTO) at the G20 Ministerial…

Las Rozas will showcase its innovation and technological development projects at the Smart City Expo World Congress 2026

Redacción de The Smart City Journal

An Overview of Enabling and Sustaining Connected Communities Rooted in Solving Societal Challenges

5G as a catalyst for economic opportunities and innovation in Sub-Saharan Africa

The ozone layer continues to slowly recover

Pepsico and Fertiberia are launching a pioneering programme to reduce emissions in potato farming

Key climate action highlights of the EU contribution to the Paris summit for a new global financing pact

Surprise! Weaker bonds can make polymers stronger

EU invests €6.2 billion in sustainable, safe and efficient transport infrastructure

China operators join GSMA Open Gateway initiative

Oxford University to lead tidal energy project for carbon emission reduction and energy security

World Travel & Tourism Council & UNWTO Sign Historic MOU

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