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Emirates NBD drives sustainability goals with Microsoft partnership

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The implementation continues the bank’s ongoing collaboration with Microsoft to enable focused advancement of sustainability goals through knowledge sharing, collaborative frameworks, and development of future commitments.

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Neuroglee gets $2.3 million to develop digital therapeutics for neurodegenerative diseases

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There are now about 50 million people with dementia globally , a number the World Health Organization expects to triple by 2050. Alzheimer’s is the leading cause of dementia and caregivers are often overwhelmed, without enough support.

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Concert Bio lands pre-seed round to fix hydroponic farming’s ‘dirty secret’

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If the world wants to feed 10 billion people in 2050, it’ll need to find a better way to grow food. Today, about half the world’s habitable land is devoted to agriculture, yet even that amount can’t provide everyone with the sort of diet enjoyed by people in developed countries. Everything will just die, basically.”.

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Swiss energy services company uses machine learning to see the future

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That changed in 2017 when Swiss voters approved an energy act that would reduce the country’s dependency on fossil fuels by 2050. If IWB hoped to fulfill its mission of helping to usher in a fully renewable future, an intelligent solution had to be developed to accurately predict solar power production.

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AI-driven energy startup Octopus hits $2B mark after $200M investment from Tokyo Gas

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Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has set a target of reaching net-zero by 2050. Residential renewable energy developer Swell is raising $450 million for distributed power projects in three states. Japanese renewables lag the U.K. by 50% (renewables in Japan in 2019 accounted for 18.9% of electricity versus 37.9% in the U.K.),

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ZEBOX, an incubator for supply chain startups, launches its Asia hub in Singapore

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The APAC hub is backed by Enterprise Singapore, a board under the Ministry of Trade and Industry to foster SME development, and the Maritime and Port Authority of Singapore, alongside industry partners Bureau Veritas Marine and Offshore, PSA unboXed and Synergy Marine Group.

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Longevity startup Longevica plans to launch supplements based on long-term research

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Longevica’s CEO Aynar Abdrakhmanov, backing up his company’s aim to tap the desire for people to live longer, said: “According to the WHO, by 2050, 2 billion people will be 60+ years old. PayPal co-founder Peter Thiel invested in Unity Biotechnology , which is developing drugs to treat diseases that accompany aging.

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