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Why 5G Standalone is a key ingredient in enabling the UK's net zero transition

Business Green

Climate risk and resilience is an ever-increasing priority for businesses and governments. Crucially, it's 5G-enabled technologies (those that can connect to the network) that could be a powerful ingredient in the UK's net zero strategy - and what's even more significant, is it's available to us now.

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Visionary water projects celebrated by Lighthouse Awards

Envirotec Magazine

The winning Lighthouse organisations, named so because they are shining a light for others to follow, have developed new ways of using technology, finance or partnerships, including circularity in their practice, to reduce their impact in water-stressed regions, or build resilience in their local water systems.

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Bonn Challenge: Land restoration pledges reach 210 million hectares worldwide

Business Green

Launched by the German government in 2011, the Bonn Challenge centres on a global goal to encourage national and regional governments around the world to together bring 150 million hectares of degraded and deforested land into restoration by 2020, rising to 350 million hectares by 2030. We have put the building blocks in place," he said.

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Bayer Joins Greentown Labs’ Corporate Partner Network

Greentown Labs

Greentown Labs has a decade-long track record of supporting climatetech entrepreneurs as they scale technologies, and sees meaningful opportunities to advance agtech innovation around food and soil, digital tools and monitoring, and farmer resilience and equity. Learn more about them here. ###. billion in funding.

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Climate Intelligence: The Digital Fabric for Climate Action

Better Ventures

Thus far we have made investments towards reducing the climate impact of our food, industrial production, and energy systems, and we are eager to make more. Some of you may recall the boom-and-bust cycle of clean tech from 2006–2011. More on the CI landscape and market opportunity below.) Why Climate Intelligence? Overstory (Seed | $1.8M

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Rising groundwater levels are threatening clean air and water across the country

Grist

Within the cracks of rock slabs, sand, and soil, this water sinks, swells, and flows — sometimes just a few feet under the surface, sometimes 30,000 feet below. Trees are drowning as the soil becomes soupier , starving their roots of oxygen. Armenta wants to see better monitoring, and they also want to see the toxic sites remediated.

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How 5 communities across the US are seeking environmental justice

GreenBiz

Queen attributes the issues that north Minneapolis faces today — the vacant homes, the poor access to medicine and food, the proximity to industrial pollution — to a lack of Black ownership and the political power that accompanies wealth. I got the first results of the monitoring; it scared the heck out of me," he said.