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Ed’s note: Innovation for utility challenges in a volatile world

Smart Energy International

EMEA (Europe, Middle East and Africa) is a highly diverse area, both between the individual regions and across them. Pointing to infrastructure as a top challenge along with the environment and social imbalances, he continued that it is our obligation to do more, using new technology to innovate and drive sustainability.

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Report says smart lampposts can assist Covid response and recovery

Envirotec Magazine

In Barcelona, the City Council has developed a camera-based solution attached to lampposts in the Las Ramblas area to ensure public health on beaches and implement crowd control measures to help tackle Covid. Lockdowns have cost Europe €2 billion per day[1], equivalent to the cost of investing in 2 million smart lampposts every day.”

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Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves

GreenBiz

In fact, in Europe and the United States, more people die of heat waves than from all other natural disasters combined. Cities are particularly vulnerable to heat waves. Smart Cities. Yet extreme heat is progressively posing fatal danger for humanity, particularly for young children and elderly people. Pull Quote.

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Innovative biophilic design planned for new village in Portugal

AGreenLiving

A new development is in the works, designed to sit on a Portuguese hillside and provide a community with unique characteristics and a focus on sustainable design, function, well-being and innovation. With this project, we intend to develop a smart city, or in this case, a smart valley.” The project is dubbed Fuse Valley.

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Google and C40 cities launch carbon-free energy pilot

Smart Energy International

Across the pilots, cities will explore policy and market reforms that expand access to clean energy and ensure that residents realise the economic, employment and health benefits of the clean energy transition.

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Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves

AGreenLiving

In fact, in Europe and the United States, more people die of heat waves than from all other natural disasters combined. Cities are particularly vulnerable to heat waves. Read the original: Our COVID-19 response can make our cities more resilient to heat waves. And temperatures will continue to rise.

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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. Arakawa related that it made sense for Panasonic to invest in smart cities, given its broad portfolio of technology solutions. "We