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Tech Transfer Needed If Climate Targets Are To Be Met

The Horizons Tracker

A recent paper from Tsinghua University highlights this divide and argues that there needs to be significant movement in terms of technology transfer between rich and poor countries if global climate targets are to be met. “Global carbon space for limiting 1.5°C

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What Prompts Investments In Energy Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Recent research from the University of Oxford argued that decarbonizing the global economy would provide a $12 trillion boost by 2050 due to the improving efficiencies of renewable sources of energy. billion in 2018. In China, for instance, spending on fossil fuel innovation grew from just $90 million in 2001 to $1.673 billion in 2018.

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Making The Cloud Sustainable

The Horizons Tracker

Globally, it’s believed that data centers account for around 2% of all electricity output. This is highlighted by the fact that despite the volume of work done by data centers rising by 500% between 2010 and 2018, energy consumption only grew by 6%.

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Embedding EDI as KPIs: The organisations using inclusion metrics as performance indicators

Chartered Management Institute

McKinsey & Company reported that in 2020 the global market for EDI-related efforts was estimated at $7.5bn, yet at the current rate, it will take another 151 years to close the global economic gender gap. This proved to be successful; the organisation won a transparency award for its 2018 EDI strategy. “As

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Acquiring the Entrepreneurial Skills You Need

Great Leadership By Dan

Learn to assess what skills you lack and what skills you should outsource to set yourself up for the greatest amount of success Derek Lidow is the former CEO of International Rectifier and the founder of iSuppli, a leading market research firm, which he sold in 2010 for $100 million to global information leader IHS.

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Growing Entrepreneurs And Entrepreneurship: Lessons From Estonia

The Horizons Tracker

The Global Innovation Index illustrates this, as they cite the inhibiting impact a shortage of human capital is having on the innovation potential of the nation. These efforts hope to succeed where Bringing Talent Home, which was an initiative run between 2010 and 2012, failed. Talent shortages. Boosting digital literacy.

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How to Compete Like the World’s Most Innovative Leaders

Skip Prichard

In fact, his inventions in three-phase electric power and alternating current eventually enabled the global distribution of electricity as we know it. 2010): 253-269. [6] Tesla’s genius and education led him to develop the foundations for electric induction motors, wireless telegraphy, radios, neon lamps, and remote control.