TechCrunch

AUGUST 11, 2021

billion in 2050. Older adults are the most underserved demographic for the tech world. They’re also one of the fastest-growing age cohorts. The number of people worldwide who are 65 and older is expected to grow from 524 million in 2010 to 1.5 per year (compared with 0.8% for the overall population).

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 16, 2022

Two years ago, South Korea unveiled a plan to reach carbon neutrality by 2050. Getting there will be another story. A lthough Korean manufacturers say they are trying to change their ways, the country’s GDP is linked to some uniquely pollutive industries, including petrochemical producers, automakers and shipbuilders.

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Impact Hub

FEBRUARY 22, 2022

Together, we aim to mitigate the negative impact of climate change and help to meet the Paris Agreement goal of limiting global warming below 2°C by 2050. This partnership will allow us to better understand and manage our carbon footprint and remove our travel-related emissions from the atmosphere”.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 16, 2020

“By 2050 everybody wants to be zero emission and net zero. 2050 is one vehicle lifetime away. Transitioning to a hydrogen fleet is going to take more than the technical ability of a new breed of manufacturers though, Miftakhov said. It will also require government intervention. But] we are already too late.

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AsiaTechDaily

FEBRUARY 20, 2023

She said 65% of Asia’s population will be elderly by 2050 and with that the cost of elderly healthcare is expected to grow by 5X from 2030. Low also noted that 60% of the world’s diabetics are living in Asia while cancer mortality rate in the region is 75%, compared to 65% globally.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 24, 2023

This is an especially critical area for CMA CGM Group, since its goal is to reach net zero carbon by 2050. Another is decarbonization and ZEBOX is looking at alternative fuels, net zero energy, asset recovery, green infrastructure, emissions tracking and reporting and sustainable warehousing and distribution.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 30, 2022

trillion every year between now and 2050, according to McKinsey. “Those that survive will have an opportunity to expand market share.”. And the potential market is enormous. Spending on getting the world’s real estate to net zero will require $1.7 We spoke with: Jake Fingert , managing partner, and Lionel Foster , investor, Camber Creek.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 7, 2022

Looking at how non-native insect invasions are expected to increase by 36% by 2050 and how growing population numbers are going to put greater pressure on food production, innovative tech like the FlightSensor that advances our capacity to understand and thoughtfully respond to threats is more than welcome.

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TechCrunch

JUNE 8, 2022

The market size of Africa’s digital economy is massive and, if projections go as planned, should top $712 billion by 2050. The report, which included analysis from McKinsey & Company, says its assertions are backed by an acceleration in strong market fundamentals and the impact of the pandemic.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 11, 2022

But a United Nations report estimates that we’ll need to double global food production by 2050 to meet the needs of 10 billion people. Rising demand for meat is driven in part by the rise of a global middle class.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 24, 2021

And the answer was we’d be done in 2070, and then even if you double the number of people doing it, it was 2050.” It takes about 20 minutes to do one, so we counted how much time with all of our staff, it would take us to do them by hand.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 15, 2024

The event, featuring around 35 experts from diverse sectors, addressed the multifaceted value of forests and how to balance their role in supporting human needs with environmental health, particularly in the context of Switzerland’s Energy Policy 2050.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 19, 2023

The EU program aims to support homegrown startups to scale and the accelerator’s 2023 work program included “environmental intelligence” among a number of green tech areas of focus, aligning with the bloc’s overarching goal of becoming ‘climate neutral’ by 2050.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 3, 2021

Moreover, the world’s population of those who are 60 and older is expected to reach 2 billion by 2050, up from 900 million in 2015. The World Health Organization says people aged 60 and older outnumber children under 5. W3C Web Accessibility Initiative provides an overview on Web Accessibility for Older Users. Here’s what it reveals.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 21, 2022

5 areas where VCs can play an outsized role in addressing climate change.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 22, 2022

Worldfavor co-founder and CEO, Andreas Liljendahl, says he welcomes the thickening pack of sustainability reporting players — envisaging a future of rich collaboration and startup opportunity to cater to increasingly comprehensive and intertwined reporting requirements.

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Dream It

FEBRUARY 14, 2020

According to UN forecasts, the number of people living in cities is expected to double by 2050, growing from 3.5 More automated solutions for home-building will be critical to solve the growing housing crisis, especially in cities. billion today to more than 7 billion.

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Innovation 2 Enterprise

APRIL 18, 2022

About 430 million people suffer from moderate to complete hearing loss worldwide, a number expected to rise to about 700 million by 2050. Hearing loss can significantly impact multiple aspects of life, including the loss of the ability to follow spoken conversations.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 19, 2020

The UN predicts that by 2050, this proportion will rise to more than two thirds. This unknown individual was the first person to inhabit a world in which the planet’s urban population outnumbered the rural. More than half of the world’s population now lives in cities and urban areas.

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Impact Hub

APRIL 20, 2023

According to a recent McKinsey report , reaching net zero by 2050 could require a 60% increase in capital spending on physical assets compared to current levels. trillion per year until 2050, with $6.5 The total investment needed amounts to $9.2 trillion annually allocated to low-emissions assets and enabling infrastructure.

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TechCrunch

AUGUST 15, 2022

Ford reached a deal with DTE Energy to power its electricity supply in Michigan with clean energy, a step toward its goal to become carbon neutral by 2050. BMW and Toyota will team up to produce hydrogen fuel cell vehicles starting mid-decade.

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Forward Cities

DECEMBER 12, 2019

The 2019 Institute for Policy Study on the national racial wealth gap reported if the trajectory of the past three decades continues, by 2050 the median White family will have $174,000 of wealth, while Latino median wealth will be $8,600 and Black median wealth will be $600. We all play a role in these stats.

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American Entrepreneurship

JUNE 20, 2023

WHO : Respondents do not need to be located within the State of New Jersey to provide input.The RFI seeks responses from qualified entities, organizations, and individuals in commercial building decarbonization efforts.

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Impact Hub

AUGUST 10, 2023

Impact Hub Network Global team Facebook Twitter LinkedIn WhatsApp According to a recent McKinsey report , reaching net zero by 2050 could require a 60% increase in capital spending on physical assets compared to current levels. trillion per year until 2050, with $6.5 The total investment needed amounts to $9.2

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Impact Hub

NOVEMBER 20, 2023

billion tonnes of waste projected by 2050, as highlighted by the World Bank, a paradigm shift is imperative. Today’s decisions often align with linear economy principles and consumption habits ingrained by capitalism, leading us down the path of increasing waste generation. To combat the looming 3.40

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Andreessen Horowitz

MARCH 5, 2024

And so, I think when people look back in 2050, they might say that this was one of the most interesting and lasting and impactful partnerships between the government and the military and Silicon Valley in the country.

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TechCrunch

NOVEMBER 2, 2020

Roughly two-thirds of the world’s population will live in cities by 2050, and the world’s largest cities are cracking under the pressures of economic, civil, and environmental transformations that they have not been able to address effectively. As REEF acknowledges, cities are the future.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 9, 2022

2° C, we need to reduce emissions to about 45% lower than 2010 levels by 2030 and achieve net-zero by 2050. Carbon capture/methane reduction. The latest science tells us that in order to keep warming to 1.5°–2° It is not realistic to expect that we can replace all of our fossil fuel machines and processes in that time frame.

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TechCrunch

SEPTEMBER 9, 2022

That’s a whole lot of potential mouths to feed; seafood consumption is poised to nearly double by 2050, per researchers at Stanford. Numi’s products are still in development, but the company is already boasting about a moonshot-sized goal — to capture 30% of the seafood market in 10 years. – Harri Weber.

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TechCrunch

MARCH 16, 2023

It’s something he’s promised to update at the start of every year until 2050, “as I will then be 95 years old, and I suspect I’ll be a little too exhausted by then to carry on arguments about why I was right or wrong on particular points.” Fair enough.

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Revolution

FEBRUARY 3, 2021

the company’s DNA is wired with an urgency that meets the moment: the United Nations has predicted that by 2050 we will need up to 50% more food to meet a rising population and growing middle class. I used to joke that the company moves at “the speed of Jonathan,” referring to the founder’s incredible impatience with the status quo.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 23, 2020

Japanese Prime Minister Yoshihide Suga has set a target of reaching net-zero by 2050. Japanese renewables lag the U.K. by 50% (renewables in Japan in 2019 accounted for 18.9% of electricity versus 37.9% in the U.K.), so the potential for growth is significant. In the U.K.,

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AsiaTechDaily

MAY 29, 2023

This strategic partnership will help catalyze the investment in companies that are making substantial contributions towards the global target of achieving a net-zero economy by 2050, according to the announcement.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 23, 2021

Longevica’s CEO Aynar Abdrakhmanov, backing up his company’s aim to tap the desire for people to live longer, said: “According to the WHO, by 2050, 2 billion people will be 60+ years old. Late last year Humanity Inc.

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TechCrunch

JANUARY 18, 2021

“India is home to one of the world’s youngest populations, and by 2050, it is expected to account for over 18% of the global working age population,” said Arundhati Bhattacharya, chairperson and CEO, Salesforce India, in a statement.

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TechCrunch

DECEMBER 4, 2020

The world’s food supply must double by the year 2050 to meet the demands of a growing population, according to a report from the United Nations. “We have to double the amount of food we have to create by 2050, and if you look at where there are enough resources to grow food — all signs point to Africa.

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TechCrunch

APRIL 28, 2021

The new European climate-focused investment firm 2050 , and La Famiglia , a fund with strong ties to big European industrial companies, also participated alongside several undisclosed angel investors from the Bay Area. . “We officially invested in December or January.”

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