climate-change
Can Communications Satellites Help Fight Climate Change?
Information and communication technology has an important role to play in helping countries meet their climate goals — both from a mitigation and adaptation standpoint as well as in the efforts to reduce e-waste.
Breakthrough
Robert Glennon: Why a Higher Price for Water Makes Sense
Without sensible water prices, industry has no incentive to innovate and conserve.
Industrial users are not paying enough for water. The same goes for farmers, commercial businesses, municipal residents — and every other user group.
sustainability
Navi Radjou: Fighting Global Warming with Frugal Innovation
Businesses can do more with less and find a sustainable path to growth by following the principles of frugal innovation.
Heads of state from around the world have gathered in Paris with a lofty goal — no less than saving the world. While political leaders seek an international agreement to keep global warming from threatening human existence, business leaders are confronted with their own challenge: how to achieve a sustainable model for growth.
sustainability
Giulio Boccaletti: The Next Agriculture Revolution — More Crop Per Drop
As farmers once again rise to the challenge of overcoming resource scarcity with the help of water-conservation technologies, other industries should take note. Part of a series exploring what can be achieved on the energy and the environmental front this decade.
climate-change
François Austin: Progress Toward Balanced, Sustainable Energy World Remains Slow
From the Brink: As part of a regular series featuring content from BRINK, François Austin discusses the need for greater international cooperation on sustainable energy.
climate-change
Why Culture Is as Important as Policy in the Campaign against Climate Change — Interview with Jennifer Morgan of the World Resource Institute
Paris could prove the turning point in the global effort to combat climate change, but culture will be as important as policy going forward.
Earlier this week delegates from 196 countries arrived in Paris to attend the 21st Conference of the Parties (COP21) of the UN Framework Convention on Climate Change. COP21 is neither the first nor will it be the last COP. Yet many see it as the most important negotiation round since the 2009 one in Copenhagen.
sustainability
Brandon Owens and Thibault Desclee: Beyond Policy — The Future of Renewable Energy
Renewables are key to a sustainable global power supply. Private-sector ingenuity and collaboration can help accelerate the transition toward a low-carbon energy future.
sustainability
Debora Frodl: Solving Global Resource Challenges
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.
environment
Lather, Rinse, Repeat: This Solution to Climate Change Could Be Hiding in Your Bathroom
