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B2B marketplaces will be the next billion-dollar e-commerce startups

TechCrunch

The B2B e-commerce industry has broad reach, encompassing everything from commerce infrastructure and payments technology to procurement and supply-chain solutions. Compliance: In some verticals, particularly those related to healthcare and chemicals, there is a heavy compliance burden to ensure goods are properly sourced and transported.

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How adopting sustainability as a service can drive business success and help the planet

CIO

Due to the complexity and scale of the challenge, not all businesses have the resources to move toward net-zero at the necessary pace, and many are lagging. While organizations know they need to mitigate environmental risks more effectively across the supply chain, often they struggle to translate that ambition into results.

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To fix the climate, these 10 investors are betting the house on the ocean

TechCrunch

Now, they’ve started to cast their nets wider for other, adjacent opportunities. It’s also been encouraging to see governments taking action to truly prioritize and create financial incentives for investing in climate/ocean innovations, such as the bipartisan Infrastructure Law passed in the U.S.

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Escalate and Intensify Company Wide Innovation Focus Even in Tough Times

Planbox

Planbox is the comprehensive innovation management platform trusted by some of the world’s most recognized brands, including Blue Cross, Cargill, Caterpillar, Dow Chemical, Exxon Mobil, Honeywell, John Deere, Novartis, Ontario Power Generation, Sun Life Financial, Whirlpool and Verizon, with millions of internal and external users.

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Quantum technology Is it a solution for some of our biggest sustainability challenges?

Capgemini

Facebook Twitter Linkedin Society must find a way to act on climate change, deliver on net-zero ambitions and meet long-term goals for sustainable development. We are a long way from meeting net zero ambitions or achieving our SDGs through the application of quantum. Gireesh Kumar Neelakantaiah 23 Nov 2022.

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Gradually, then suddenly

O'Reilly Media - Ideas

In each case, the lack of existing infrastructure turned out to be an advantage in adopting a radically new model. Could we replace chemical dyes with bacterial by-products ? Already Zipline’s on-demand drones are delivering 20% of all blood supplies in Rwanda and will be coming soon to other countries (including the US).

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Terraform Industries wants to solve climate change by making more hydrocarbons

TechCrunch

The system, called a Terraformer, then combines the hydrogen and CO 2 into a chemical reactor to make natural gas. According to Handmer, the chemical reactor is hitting 94% methane purity already, which means that it is making synthetic natural gas fully compatible with existing distribution pipelines.

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