Environment

The rising population is driving global water demand and putting significant pressure on the global water supply chain. The United Nations estimates that half of the global population will face water shortages by 2025, and the situation is expected to intensify and lead to 700 million people facing displacement by 2030 due to water shortages. Desal...

31 Aug 2023  |  Global  |  Technology Research

Technology Advances in Indoor Farming Systems

Integrating Advanced Farming Techniques with Controlled Environment Agriculture to Significantly Improve Yield while Enabling Resource Efficiency and Food Security

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The world is experiencing unrelenting trends in population growth, decreasing water supply, urbanization, and climate change, all of which contributes to dwindling arable land stock. The United Nations (UN) Food and Agriculture Organization (FAO) estimates that the global population will reach 9.7 billion by 2050 and exceed 11 billion by 2100. To a...

19 Jun 2023  |  Global  |  Technology Research

Thermo-Chemical Waste Treatment Technologies Facilitate Sustainable Fuel Generation

Integrating TCWT Solutions into Industrial Processes Produces Specialty Chemicals and Fuels While Significantly Reducing Carbon Emissions

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Globally, exponential population growth, rampant consumerism, and economic development are the major drivers of waste generation. The World Bank estimates that waste generation is going to increase from about 2.3 billion tons per year by 2023 to 3.4 billion tons per year by 2050. Out of the 2.3 billion tons of waste produced in 2023, as much as 33 ...

The World Bank estimates that rapid population growth and urbanization have resulted in a global average waste generation of about 0.79 kilograms per citizen per day as of 2022. It predicts a direct relationship between waste generation and income levels and projects the daily per capita waste generation in high-income countries to increase by 19.0...

Energy and cost savings are still perceived as one of the top benefits of light-emitting diode (LED) lighting, and they will continue to influence decision-making in lighting procurement. In major countries, households' rising disposable income will result in the renovation and modification of lighting systems to keep up with LED lighting innovatio...

More than 4 billion people lack water for at least 1 month every year. Furthermore, it is estimated that by 2025, half the world´s population could potentially face water scarcity. Factors driving an increase in water scarcity include climate change, climate-related catastrophes, ground water contamination through the increasing usage of pesticide...

Water utilities across the globe are in various stages of implementing polices and regulations that will enable water conservation and reduce non-revenue water (NRW), with advanced smart water meters being the focal point of investment. For over a decade automated-meter-reading-based (AMR based) smart water meters were the most adopted. However, th...

Driven by the rapid FM development in developing markets and offset by low growth in mature markets, growth in the Asia-Pacific facility management (FM) market is stable. The growing outsourcing culture, supported by the continuous expansion of asset base and new construction, contributes to a higher penetrable FM market base. Constantly evolving c...

Industries and countries across the world are facing three crucial challenges: waste management, greenhouse gas emissions, and limited resource availability. Sustainably recycling and reusing products (i.e., supply chain circularization) can address these aforementioned challenges. Despite this advantage, the deployment of a circular economy in mos...