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Tech innovators should pay attention to NYC’s new air pollution monitoring pilot

EDF + Business

Police cars, fire engines, and public buses drive up and down the city streets performing their public services duties. But what if while completing their routine routes, doing their regular jobs, these vehicles were doubling as mobile air pollution monitoring networks? The growing air pollution monitoring market.

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How Houston’s model could change the way cities map air pollution

EDF + Business

Ordinary fleet vehicles doing their normal jobs in cities have hidden potential to shape actions that protect health and the climate. This is possible with the help of advanced mobile air pollution sensors paired with connected vehicle GPS technologies that allow cities to map pollutants at a hyperlocal scale.

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Public investment, private innovation: The global market for air quality marketing

EDF + Business

Entrepreneurs and technology innovators can play a role in solving air pollution challenges across the globe by investing in the growing market for sensor technologies. Entrepreneurs and technology innovators can play a role in solving air pollution challenges across the globe by investing in the growing market for sensor technologies.

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The road to a sustainable economy

The Environmental Blog

This makes it difficult to invest in green practices that may have upfront costs but long-term benefits. Through investment, countries can help support renewable energy, reducing our reliance on fossil fuels. Another challenge is the short-term focus of the current economic system. Lack of awareness and knowledge is also a key barrier.

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

GreenBiz

Cities are particularly vulnerable to heat waves. Air pollution, tall buildings, building materials, lack of green spaces and wind all contribute to trapping heat from the sun, traffic and industry and result in the creation of Urban Heat Islands (UHI). Smart Cities. And temperatures will continue to rise. Contributors.

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Cities are growing faster and smarter, but can they go greener? We asked Siemens.

EDF + Business

You might not be thinking about smart cities, or how the company is working to accelerate technology innovation, eMobility, resilience, and urban sustainability. As air pollution and climate change pose unprecedented threats to cities across the globe, it’s more important than ever to transform the way that urban areas operate.

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Bangkok boats bolster e-mobility

Smart Energy International

Over the next 12 months, the IFC will work with CPX to develop bankable and sustainable investment projects. Have you read: Renewables and grid integration: The greatest challenge to Asia’s energy transition First electric bus added to New York’s NFTA fleet SP Group and Banpu NEXT partner on smart city solutions across Asia Pacific.