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Rigid Containers Dip Slightly Due to China's Green Fence

Shaping the cities future

Urban Development – Electric Mobility – Industry 4.0 – Demographic Change – Climate Crisis – Internet of Things – Shareconomy... the world is changing fast and entire industries are reinventing themselves in response to complex transitions in social, economic, and environmental arenas.

For over 250 years, Pompeii has been a magnet for people from all over the world who are fascinated by our classical heritage. Every year some three million tourists flock to the ancient world's largest continuous urban ruins. Restoration has been taking place ever since excavations began on the ancient city. Now leading European research institutions have undertaken a fundraising initiative called the Pompeii Sustainable Preservation Project, whose goal is to secure the site's long-term future and apply the knowledge gained along the way to the preservation of other ancient sites worldwide.

Five Fraunhofer institutes from different disciplines have teamed up for the Beyond Tomorrow project SENEKA – a sensor network with mobile robots for disaster management. The aim is to create a reliable and flexible system for saving human lives in an emergency, using sensors, communication technology elements and robots.

Global wind and solar company Mainstream Renewable Power today announces the launch of a pan-African renewable energy generation platform, Lekela Power, which it has formed along with Actis, the global pan-emerging market private equity firm. Lekela Power will provide between 700 and 900 megawatts of wind and solar power across Africa by 2018.

The Agenda of the Summit was to Focus on how to use a Comprehensive Approach to Create Effective Sustainable CSR Strategies

Liht is a new company dedicated to helping organisations make the right lighting investment decisions to become more energy efficient. Reducing lighting bills by as much as 90% and giving investment returns of under two years, based on energy savings alone, it's no wonder LED lighting has fast become the number one energy efficiency recommendation.