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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. The costs involved in this effort are also significant, and amount to up to 4.1% of national GDP.

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Taking a Look at the Future of Oil and Gas Industry

Strategy Driven

Activists and politicians demand the modernization of energy production, supply, and consumption. In the meantime, alternative sources of energy, such as solar and wind, are surging. In the US, they grew at a rate of 100 percent from 2000 to 2018. Renewable technology is gaining ground left and right.

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Three Ways to Make the 4AM Club Work For You

Strategy Driven

And then, almost as quickly as it begins, the challenge is over, sworn off forever as an unrealistic, unachievable, and borderline inhumane goal. As an entrepreneur and the mother of a growing family, high-paced days at my desk and endless days on the road, are only outpaced by high-energy evenings and weekends with my family of five.

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What Your Moonshot Can Learn from the Apollo Program

Harvard Business Review

. “Moonshots” is the term favored by the company’s exploratory arm, known as X, which states on its website : “Our mission is to invent and launch ‘moonshot’ technologies that we hope could someday make the world a radically better place.” Don’t be prescriptive. Continually communicate progress.

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Introducing 100 Coaches: Pay It Forward Champions

Marshall Goldsmith

Authority on new technology and communication. Keith Ferrazzi – Addresses behaviors that block the achievement of strategic goals. Claire Diaz-Ortiz – Technology innovator and speaker. Divya Silbermann – Human resources leader at technology startups, including Facebook and Eventbrite. Strategy and Culture Advisors.

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Lose those News Blues and Leave the Dark Side: The World’s Never Been Better

The Practical Leader

billion m³ between 2005 and 2018 to cover 22% of land area. .” billion m³ between 2005 and 2018 to cover 22% of land area. are at the lowest levels in almost 40 years, while American clean energy jobs grew by 110,000 last year. Global rates of measles have dropped by 2/3 from 2000 to 2018. Strokes for U.S.

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Two Questions to Ask Before You Set Up an Innovation Unit

Harvard Business Review

At one large European energy company we consulted with, no less than four separate corporate functions were supposed to be working on innovation—yet none of them was supporting critical needs at the business unit level. In 2018, Merck opened its new Innovation Center at the company’s Darmstadt headquarters.