sustainability

Thousands of businesses will fail to meet pledges to combat climate change unless they start training employees on sustainability, Microsoft's President Brad Smith told Reuters. Speaking ahead of a report the software maker released Wednesday, Smith said common instruction on issues like carbon accounting was too piecemeal for the roughly 3,900 companies that have vowed to cut their CO2 emissions. "We have to move very quickly to start to bring our emissions down, and the ultimate bottleneck is the supply of skilled…

Undoubtedly among the most significant technological advancements of the twenty-first century is cryptocurrency. A few years ago, very few people believed it was conceivable, yet they have given us access to special characteristics. It just takes a few minutes to send digital assets over the world when using cryptocurrency. But it’s important to keep in mind that every cryptocurrency is unique and has its features. The characteristics of each coin vary, and some are more advanced than others. A growing number of…

Image: NHL/SAPThe tool collects data submitted by venues, validates it by looking for any reporting errors, and then analyzes the data using calculation formulas to determine energy and other relevant use. And, finally, the tool provides a website where venues and the league can view reports, gain insight, and look for trends.This isn't the only area where the NHL and SAP have worked together to provide more insight into the game of hockey. Just last year the NHL, SAP, and Apple developed the SAP-NHL Coaching…

The race to remove CO2 from our atmosphere is on. In an effort to draw down carbon at a meaningful scale, people are looking to the ground. The top meter of the world’s soil holds over three times the amount of carbon currently in our atmosphere—and if we treat our land better, it could suck up even more.This is good news for farmers. Companies and individuals desperate to offset their emissions by purchasing carbon credits are willing to pay farmers to use sustainable agricultural practices and sequester carbon in their…

Sustainability has now become an increasingly important element that is being implemented in multiple industries such as fashion, automotive and supply chains. The component of sustainability has now transitioned into the realm of crypto, with blockchain networks now opting to use more energy-efficient consensus such as proof-of-stake (PoS). Ethereum (ETH) is one of the most prominent cryptocurrencies in the market and has recently made the transition from proof-of-work (PoW) to proof-of-stake. Cardano (ADA) is another…

Big Earth Data enables macroscopic, dynamic, and objective monitoring by making it possible to integrate and analyze data on the land, sea, atmosphere, and human activity to give a holistic understanding of a vast region. This technology can support policymaking by providing dynamic, multi-scale, and cyclical information on multiple SDG indicators closely related to Earth's surface, environment, and resources. Credit: Science China Press…

The sage-green, waist-high shrub guayule might look like just one of the many scraggly bushes that dot the hills and valleys of the Chihuahuan Desert in Mexico and the southwestern U.S. But its nondescript stalks and leaves harbor a panoply of botanical treasures, including rubber that Indigenous people used hundreds of years ago to make balls for games. For decades, researchers have been investigating guayule (Parthenium argentatum) as a potential commercial source of natural rubber. The market is currently dominated by…

The U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission may pull back on a rule that would require companies to report greenhouse-gas emissions arising from their supply chains and the use of their products, according to panelists at The Wall Street Journal’s Pro Sustainable Business Forum on Thursday. So-called Scope 3 emissions including supply chains and product use often cover the bulk of a business’s emissions, and many companies say it is too costly and difficult to measure them. “There... The U.S.…

Unpredictable weather has long complicated wind and solar power generation. Now companies are turning to increasingly sophisticated computer models to cut costs and produce energy more efficiently despite fluctuations. Compared with a coal, gas or nuclear plant, wind and solar facilities produce a dizzying amount of data that utilities are struggling to put into use. Each solar panel and each wind turbine sends out its own data on electricity output, unlike with a traditional power plant. Utilities...…

Carbon emissions are driving the biosphere toward a three-degree-Celsius rise in average temperature, as the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) recently noted in its Sixth Assessment Report. Intense and frequent droughts, flooding, wildfires and food insecurity are already devastating parts of the world. The usual “clean technology” solution to reduce carbon emissions has serious ecological and social costs, however. Renewable energy threatens to generate mountains of waste and destruction. Just replacing…