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IoT and cloud analytics network to preemptively mitigate wildfires

Smart Energy International

Dryad Networks (Dryad), an environmental IoT startup based in Berlin, has launched its Silvanet, a solar-powered, cloud analytics-incorporated sensor network aimed at delivering ultra-early detection and forest monitoring for wildfires. According to the United Nations (UN), wildfires are likely to increase by a third by 2050.

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Verizon Climate Resilience Prize

GreenBiz

Climate Resilience is the capacity of social, economic, and environmental systems to cope with the hazardous events and trends associated with climate change, according to the IPCC.

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Infrastructure and resiliency set to accelerate smart water systems uptake – study

Smart Energy International

The effects of climate change are being felt more on the daily. The result of this, however, is a rising demand for smart water systems to integrate into smart city-esque infrastructure to bolster resilience against such events; so states a new research report. The report comes in from Guidehouse Insights.

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Event - WFES Future Sustainability Summit

Green Market Oracle

The theme for the event is rethinking global consumption, production and investment. Fighting climate change is one of the most complex but also most urgent challenges of our time. WFES Future Sustainability Summit will take place on January 13 – 16, 2020 at the National Exhibition Centre, Abu Dhabi, United Arab Emirates.

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Let’s incubate the Green Swans hatched by the COVID-19 Black Swan

GreenBiz

The global COVID-19 pandemic is a historic Black Swan event that offers a Green Swan of opportunities to harvest innovation from 50 years of converging exponential technologies. According to author Nassim Nicholas Taleb, Black Swans are unexpected, hard-to-predict events that result in extreme, unintended consequences. Tom Baruch.

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#Greentown10: Greentown Startups Are Building a Climate Workforce

Greentown Labs

These thousands of new jobs illustrate that Greentown startups are not only developing climatetech solutions—they’re building a climate workforce that is ready to harness the massive economic opportunities of the energy transition. And that climate workforce is hiring. Hiring for operations and software ?.

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Conserving a Network of Climate-Resilient Lands

Climate 4.0

Read the full article in Winter 2021 issue of ArcUser, the Magazine for Esri Software Users Note by Bruce Armstrong Taylor Developing resiliency strategies to Climate Change will become an area of rapidly growing public and private interest, policy and governance demands for risk mitigation and management. Budget already allocated.