#COP21 climate change plan H/Ts tech 68 times – but innovators are nowhere to be seen
The latest draft agreement from Paris’ #COP21 climate negotiations on the future of our planet is surprisingly concise at 29 pages, but technology gets a whopping 68 mentions within this potentially world-changing document. Much of this outlines how rich nations can help finance tech innovations that will assist developing countries in addressing climate change, as well as focusing on sharing technology solutions to avoid duplicated effort. Trouble is, despite the fact that technology companies like Google, Microsoft and Facebook are making significant attempts to develop new tech and reduce their own footprints, they were strangely absent from #COP21’s parallel Sustainable Innovation Summit. And there was certainly very few startup innovators on its…
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