Turning positive social, environmental and economic impacts into busin...

Friends in the area tell me that this is the site that everyone is using to monitor air quality in the CA wildfire region.
A good example of why agencies should supply raw data and openAPIs — to help others develop apps and services that could better provide direct support to people....

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Guest post: Constellator, Peter Clive, Senior Scientist at Wood – Clean Energy
On my way to a meeting this morning I was walking along Brooktorkai in Hamburg. I passed a fuel station for vehicles. This is a completely unremarkable event, except the fuel in this instance was hydrogen. It left me reflecting on how the synthesis of...

Working with DFID, UKaid, International Rescue and the Centre for Global Disaster Protection, we helped lead a day-long innovation lab that convened over 40 experts from across the global aid ecosystem.
Framed around the needs of the end user, our task was to review expert opinions, understand the challenges that exist today and design solutions that could result in better outcomes—in terms of timing, speed, duration and shape of financing solutions...

Working with Europe’s leading climate innovation fund, Climate KIC, we are initiating the creation of an Open Environmental Risk Standard to:
develop an open standard for sharing environmental risk modelling information;
create sufficient momentum to reach an ‘escape velocity’ that drives engagement and adoption;...