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HOW CAN SMART TECH TACKLE CLIMATE CHANGE?

he recent 2021 IPCC report declared a code red for humanity, with 2019’s atmospheric CO concentrations higher than at any time in at least two million years. Our only chance of averting irreversible climate change is to reduce our carbon, methane and nitrous oxide emissions to net zero. And one way we can achieve this is by making our technologies more sustainable.

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