Life and Work in the Digital Era
Welcome to the 2020 edition of The Mobile Century: Life and Work in the Digital Era. In this edition we are focusing on the global challenge of our era – climate change and how to ensure a sustainable, green economy and society into the future. Despite the cancellation of Mobile…
Reading about climate change these days can feel like a race against the clock. We’re bombarded with headlines about the urgent need for action, and the dwindling time remaining to take it. According to the UN’s International Panel on Climate Change (IPCC)[1], we need to cut emissions by half by…
Data Centers: A Critical Infrastructure The growth of the Internet has been on an exponential trajectory since its inception in the late 1960s. Even today, some 60 years later, more people and their devices are connected, more data is stored, processed, and exchanged at an accelerated pace. Communications, media and…
Sinch brings businesses and people closer with tools enabling personal engagement. Its leading cloud communications platform lets businesses reach every mobile phone on the planet, in seconds or less, through mobile messaging, voice and video. Sinch is a trusted software provider to mobile operators, and its platform powers business-critical communications…
As the world considers how to transition to a low carbon energy future, battery technology is increasingly in the spotlight as holding the key to the future of energy production and storage. Industry research firm BloombergNEF forecasts that by 2030 the battery market will be worth $116 billion annually, and…
What is Loon? Loon is an Alphabet company based in Mountain View, California in the United States. Loon’s aim is to bridge the digital divide through the use of balloons traveling on the edge of space. Loon is a prime example of green technology entrepreneurship – creating and applying radical…
2020 will finally be the year when people around the world realise that the effect of man-made climate change is not something that is going to occur decades from now in far-flung places, but that it is happening today and it is happening in their homes. For the last 60…
In spite of all the scientific evidence that Climate Change (CC) is real, the global debate about it is overwhelming. Serious arguments for (mostly) and against its real occurrence, about its danger, and the human responsibility behind it, number in the hundreds, if not thousands. In this introduction to CC, there…
Finance impacts the natural environment both directly and indirectly. The environment also directly and indirectly impacts finance and the performance of investments. As global awareness of the impacts of climate change on all areas of business rises, so does investor concern about what actually counts as “green finance”. Green finance…
In February 2019, Verizon became the first U.S. telecom company to issue a green bond. The bond offering raised almost $1 billion in net proceeds for renewable energy, energy efficiency, green buildings, sustainable water management and biodiversity and conservation. As of December 31, 2019, approximately $500 million of net proceeds…
The 2019 Economic and Social Survey of Asia and the Pacific by UNESCAP: Ambitions beyond growth reveals that achieving the Sustainable Development Goals by 2030 requires an additional annual investment of $1.5 trillion for Asia-Pacific developing countries—equivalent to 5 percent of their combined GDP in 2018. While this seems unfathomable,…
