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UAE smart city deploys smart strategies to become living lab

Smart Energy International

The end goal is to become a living lab to continuously improve upon its smart capabilities. As a smart city, Alnama makes use of various technologies and will support start-ups and businesses in its green-technology hub in the hopes of closing the loop between food, water, energy and waste.

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Episode 221: Mapping biodiversity, repair and the circular economy

GreenBiz

The sophistication of environmental monitoring tools continues to grow, with satellites, sensors and artificial intelligence all playing a role. TerraCycle CEO Tom Szaky on what goes into a life cycle assessment for reusable packaging. L et's get together: Intel's 2030 commitments include "shared" climate and social goals.

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Seoul green city has food within a 10-minute walk anywhere

AGreenLiving

That means mixed-use spaces, green energy and digital packages for residents who are expected to live, work and play in the 504,000 square meter neighborhood. Project H1’s added technology lifestyle package is designed to go beyond traditional smart city models to serve residents in ways that free up time for leisure.

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Smart living: Inside Panasonic's drive to transform old factories into hi-tech, low carbon communities

Business Green

Technology giant gives BusinessGreen a glimpse into how its purpose-built smart cities are solving multiple societal problems at once, from climate change to social isolation. In a northern suburb of Osaka, a brand new community development is aiming to be the first in Japan to derive all its electricity from renewable sources.

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Insights and Excitements from Our 2020 Pipeline

Elemental Excelerator

Here, we’d like to share with you some high-level data from our pipeline, and explore a few things we’re learning about what’s shaping the future of energy, mobility, water, food, and the circular economy. It’s definitely possible that we will look back at COVID-19 as the key that unlocked smart cities.”

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SDG17, coronavirus, and the battle for a collaborative future

Business Green

Dubbed Partnership for the Goals, the wide-ranging targets covering everything from technology to trade, capacity-building to multi-stakeholder partnerships, and data and monitoring to accountability, were developed in the same year as the Paris Agreement amply demonstrated the merits of multilateralism.