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Debora Frodl: Solving Global Resource Challenges

Debora Frodl GE
November 20, 2015

Beyond smart policies, innovation and private-sector collaboration will help solve the world’s resource challenges.

 

The world’s resource challenges are very much top of my mind as we anticipate the start of the important 2015 United Nation’s Climate Change Conference (COP21), which will take place in Paris from November 30th through December 11th. At GE, we are deeply committed to helping to address the world’s most pressing resource challenges.
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Ecomagination Ten Years Later: Proving that Efficiency and Economics Go Hand-in-Hand

October 29, 2015
When GE launched Ecomagination in 2005, it redefined what it meant to be “green” for a business. Ecomagination was more than just another idea – it was a groundbreaking strategy the company used to build more efficient machines that produce cleaner energy, reduce greenhouse gas emissions, clean water and cut its use, and make money while doing it.
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Freya Williams: 6 Reasons Why Green Is the New Black

Freya Williams Ceo Of North America For Futerra
October 27, 2015

How a $9 burrito makes the business case for sustainability.

 

Today, many business leaders know the world has changed. They are wrestling with the new mandate to incorporate sustainability and social good into their businesses and brands.

But most companies struggle to figure out how to do this while continuing to meet their quarterly sales and earnings targets. They may have tried “green marketing” and met limited success. Or they may have skeptical shareholders convinced that this is a passing fad, or one that is just for hippies and tree huggers.
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Ian Bremmer: 5 Patterns Disrupting the World

Ian Bremmer Eurasia Group
September 23, 2015

Five forces are shaping political risks, from climate change to conflict. Here’s what to look out for.

We see patterns everywhere — in nature, in physics and in the world we’ve created — economic booms and recessions; market spikes and crashes; social stability and revolution. But I’ve never accepted George Santayana when he said, Those who cannot remember the past are condemned to repeat it.” Recognizing patterns is one thing. Thinking they’re repeating themselves, that’s something else entirely.
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Perspectives

Charles Kenny: Who’s Going to Pay for Sustainable Infrastructure?

Charles Kenny Center For Global Development
September 21, 2015

Everyone agrees on the need for infrastructure investment to drive development, but it will only happen under the right conditions.


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The data dashboard working to protect the Great Barrier Reef

August 14, 2015
In a world where the power and possibilities of data are everywhere, waiting to be unlocked and put to work, the Great Barrier Reef’s eReefs project is a compelling example of how government and industry can collaborate to develop tools that help explore and exploit that data.
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Charles McConnell: Energy Sustainability Through a Global Lens

Charles Mcconnell Rice University
December 17, 2014
Transformative technology continues to be the single largest enabler for a sustainable energy future in this world, and any number of studies also point to the fact that there is no more important contributor to the health and well-being of people than the supply of energy.
 

In future columns, I’d like to discuss in detail these technologies and how they are so important to a sustainable future. But what is energy sustainability, and how can it be viewed globally?
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Mark Baker: Magic in the Moonlight

Mark Baker GE
December 10, 2014
Our ancestors knew when to plant by looking at it, ship captains navigate by it, and wolves howl at it … and now its draw will power our cities.  After solar power, moon power — or more exactly tidal power — is well positioned to provide a sustainable, limitless power supply for years to come.
 
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Ana Palacio: Europe’s Energy Essentials

Ana Palacio Spanish Council Of State
November 27, 2014
At last month’s European Council meeting in Brussels, energy issues dominated the agenda — for the third time this year.
 
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Perspectives

Taking the Carbon Out of Power Markets — Q&A with Manuel Baritaud

Manuel Baritaud International Energy Agency
November 17, 2014
As countries around the world seek to address climate change, one obvious place to focus is power production.
 

Not only does electricity generation account for about 40 percent of energy-related CO2 emissions, but the power sector is also expected to play more of a role in reducing the share of fossil fuels in the global energy mix than any other, the International Energy Agency (IEA) explains in its latest World Energy Outlook.
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