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Global Collaboration To Track Governments And Companies In Response To The Climate Crisis

Written by Verses | Aug 27, 2020 10:40:00 PM

The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development is more urgent now than ever, as is our reliance on digital technologies to accomplish it. 

A permeating undercurrent appears to be the ticking climate bomb, which is already apparent to many –with hurricanes, fires, and now, some of the longest power outages in history in North America.

Without ubiquitous accounting measures and standards to manage the remaining carbon budget and all contributions to the Paris Agreement, we run the risk of continuing to tackle the climate crisis in silos, with fragmented and disparate approaches. 

Open Earth has partnered with organizations such as the Spatial Web Foundation and The Digital Economist to help with defining, refining and building the new human-Earth balanced global economy. Achieving the Paris Agreement is a key goal at the heart of its mission.

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