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Sustainability trends: 5 issues to watch in 2024

IBM Big Data Hub

Many countries have committed to reaching net zero by 2050, aligning with the Paris Agreement’s goal to limit global warming to well below 2 degrees Celsius. trillion to the global economy by 2050. trillion in economic benefits by 2030. Research expects that transitioning to a circular economy could generate USD 4.5

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IBM and Microsoft partnership accelerates sustainable cloud modernization

IBM Big Data Hub

Its aggressive sustainability goals included achieving net zero emissions by 2050, making all packaging reusable or recyclable by 2025 and investing more than USD 3 billion globally over several years to drive momentum. Learn more about the benefits of cloud-native development.

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Elevate your digital transformation with impactful sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

Equinix and Dell Technologies have a longstanding partnership built around solving the real challenges modern companies face—from infrastructure performance to costs, security, and speed of deployment. And we’re committed to helping customers meet their energy-efficiency targets too.

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ConocoPhillips enlists 3D printing for supply efficiencies on Alaska’s North Slope

CIO Business Intelligence

Such lead times call for a large physical inventory of replacement parts, which comes with warehousing costs and the ad valorem tax of storage. According to De Bernardi, enhancements like these can reduce operational emissions and put the company closer to its ambition of achieving net-zero emissions by 2050. “We

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What Choice’s CIO sees in a cloud-native approach to sustainability

CIO Business Intelligence

A lot of this was, in recent years, borne out of a strong partnership with Amazon Web Services, so Choice became able to benefit from cost savings and energy efficiencies, while utilizing many related services AWS offers—such as analytics and AI—to advance its digital offerings. Here are some edited excerpts of that conversation.

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Menora Mivtachim goes digital to speed up pension transfers

CIO Business Intelligence

In 2020, people aged 60 and older already outnumbered children younger than five, and by 2050, the world’s population of those 60 and older will double according to the World Health Organization. I saw that while this project had huge commercial potential, there was an even greater benefit on a socio-cultural level,” he says.

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AI Is Reaching New Milestones In Senior Care In 2019

Smart Data Collective

This figure is going to more than double by 2050. The benefits of this are threefold: Artificial intelligence-driven robots reduce the need for human workers. This reduces the costs involved. Cutting marketing costs. Artificial intelligence is expected to meet the growing needs of the elderly care industry.