Innovative debt financing could close the digital access gap. Here’s how
By: EBR | Thursday, September 9, 2021
Digital connectivity is oxygen for opportunity. The opportunities made possible to those who are connected are rapidly expanding as services across every sector are increasingly provided and consumed online
Vaccination Rejection in Historical Context
By: EBR | Thursday, September 9, 2021
Why do so many people still oppose vaccination for COVID?
Experts explain the effects of global weather disruptions on advanced economies
By: EBR | Wednesday, September 8, 2021
The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) projects a significant rise in the frequency, duration, and intensity of extreme weather events such as droughts, heatwaves and heavy rainfall (IPCC 2021)
Internet of Things is missing horizontal cybersecurity standards
By: EBR | Wednesday, September 8, 2021
A report released by trade association DigitalEurope on Wednesday (8 September) underlined the lack of baseline cybersecurity requirements
COP26: How can the world measure progress on the Paris Agreement?
By: EBR | Tuesday, September 7, 2021
Climate change is a global problem that knows no national borders
3 steps towards making aviation and marine fuel cleaner
By: EBR | Monday, September 6, 2021
Favourable government policies are needed to increase production and adoption of sustainable fuels in both sectors
Fraud detection and prevention
By: EBR | Monday, September 6, 2021
Detecting and preventing fraud is one of the biggest challenges of our times. There are so many different types of fraud as well as theft, that require consequently different methods of detection and prevention
No, technology doesn’t make us less intelligent
By: EBR | Monday, September 6, 2021
Digital technology is ubiquitous. We have been increasingly reliant on smartphones, tablets and computers over the past 20 years, and this trend has been accelerating due to the pandemic
The term AI overpromises. Let’s make machine learning work better for humans instead
By: EBR | Friday, September 3, 2021
One of the popular memes in literature, movies and tech journalism is that man’s creation will rise and destroy it
These countries rank highest for digital competitiveness
By: EBR | Thursday, September 2, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic has shown that digital technologies determine not only whether or not countries thrive, but also how well they are able to navigate trying times
3 emerging technologies that will give renewable energy a boost
By: EBR | Wednesday, September 1, 2021
In recent decades the cost of wind and solar power generation has dropped dramatically
This powerful tool will help corporates make the switch to 100% renewables
By: EBR | Tuesday, August 31, 2021
Companies in the commercial and industrial sector account for around two-thirds of the world’s demand for electricity
How to bring digital inclusion to the people who need it most
By: EBR | Monday, August 30, 2021
The COVID-19 pandemic highlighted that Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) is fundamental to well-functioning economies and citizens’ well-being
Sustainable living space in a world of limits: a need for dialogue
By: EBR | Friday, August 27, 2021
Challenges to ecological and social sustainability require us to integrate limits to resource consumption into all areas, including residential space
How can we reduce the environmental impact of digital healthcare?
By: EBR | Thursday, August 26, 2021
The pandemic has shown us the extraordinary potential of digital health to fight global health inequalities by providing expanded access to healthcare: as well as by better informing our responses to health crises
How the oil and gas industry can take a lifecycle approach to reducing emissions
By: EBR | Thursday, August 26, 2021
Various forces are reshaping the future of industries and the oil and gas industry is no different
The knotty problem of applying real-world laws to VR and AR
By: EBR | Wednesday, August 25, 2021
Virtual and augmented reality technologies are evolving fast – and our legal systems are unprepared
Why we need to talk about the skills needed for net zero
By: EBR | Tuesday, August 24, 2021
When we look out to 2050 and the transformation of the global energy system required to avert the climate crisis, we’re often confronted with what appear to be adversarial choices
A robust cybersecurity culture is critical to the energy industry’s resilience
By: EBR | Monday, August 23, 2021
The scale and impact of cyber attacks is rising exponentially due to an expanding network of digital platforms
4 sustainability tipping points to watch ahead of COP26
By: EBR | Friday, August 6, 2021
The concept of “tipping points” is commonly used to describe the threat of systemic risks. It is about systems moving into a new state and represents change at a critical point that will qualitatively alter the future fate of a complex system
By: N. Peter Kramer
