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The sustainability year 2020 in review, in haiku

GreenBiz

Editor's note: Back by popular demand, smart cities consultant Sue Lebeck provides GreenBiz highlights from the past year in verse. You'll find her haiku from 2019 here. The sustainability year 2020 in review, in haiku. Sue Lebeck. Tue, 12/29/2020 - 01:00. Rise before the Surprise. Leaders gather for. of shelter-in-place.

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Rotterdam uses smart tech to 'save city from drowning'

Corporate Knights

While Rotterdam’s blue-green grid is still far from completion, it represents an example of how a set of digital sensing technologies can be potentially harnessed to produce a smart city solution to an urban sustainability problem. . We learn from each other how to cope with these so-called smart city projects.”

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Smart Cities – Seeing the Invisible and Doing the Impossible

Daniel Burrus

Both local leaders and major companies are paying attention to these Hard Trends , becoming more anticipatory in their thinking and thus developing a solution by creating “smart cities.”. Transforming Our Cities. Smart City Benefits.

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The promise and peril of digital urban mobility

Corporate Knights

As of late 2019, Global MaaS had raised almost €54 million ($84 million) from investors including BP and Mitsubishi. Its app, known as Whim, was available in Helsinki, Vienna, Antwerp, and a handful of other cities. We need to make end-to-end trip planning easier,” says deputy CEO Roland Busch.

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Qualcomm Announces Shortlisted Teams for the Qualcomm Vietnam Innovation Challenge 2024

3BL Media

These ten startup teams, specializing in technology areas such as smart cities, robotics, automotive, Internet of Things (IoT), AgriTech, Generative and other AI, and more, have been chosen to receive a grant of US$10,000 each in cash prizes to further develop their proposals during the 8-month incubation period.

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US transportation sector could cut carbon emissions 34% by 2030: analysis

Environmental News Bits

Read the full story at Smart Cities Dive. transportation sources in 2030 by 19% from 2019 levels, according to an analysis released Thursday by America Is All In, a climate advocacy coalition supported by Bloomberg Philanthropies. State, local and federal emissions policies already in place will reduce carbon emissions from U.S.

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These 50 Canadian corporations are betting big on green

Corporate Knights

New figures showed that carbon emissions in 2022 fell to “significantly lower” than pre-pandemic levels in 2019, giving hope that Canada can meet its net-zero commitments. In early May, the federal government announced that Canada had “bent the curve” on climate pollution.

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