Throughout my life, I’ve traveled to many places for work, pleasure, and education. Often with family, sometimes alone. Whether I am in Barcelona or Buenos Aires, Austin or Cleveland, Doha or Tel-Aviv, or closer to home exploring Manhattan, I’m always struck by the variation in the built environment.
One of today’s greatest global challenges is the impact of climate change, which is causing an increase in extreme weather events such as floods, fires, hurricanes, and droughts.
Microsoft is joining the WBCSD, another step in our efforts to use the power of technology to unleash a new era of safe and sustainable growth across the globe.
Today, hosted at the Microsoft Center for Innovation and Policy in Washington D.C., the Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI) published a report prepared by Accenture Strategy that shows how digital solutions can pave the way in helping the world to achieve the objectives of the United Nation’s 17 Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) by 2030.