Pershing said China’s government has signaled it sees its long-term interests in clean growth. He noted that Su Wei, who was deputy head of the Chinese delegation to the U.N. climate process when Pershing was second-in-command on the American team, was put in charge of a green BRI strategy.

It would seem the industry is not too far away from witnessing the emergence of viable satellite IoT service platforms built upon customized high-volume terrestrial technology. This is an important precursor to understand how 5G NR should define the most appropriate air interface for a Non-Terrestrial Network to serve mMTC use cases.

While technology formed the focus of the Future Cities Show, Sharjah’s Sustainable city, which is developed by Sharjah Investment and Development Authority (Shurooq) in partnership with a Dubai real estate company was another highlight of the event. The Sustainable City is a working model of what the future could look like. It is a modern application of social, economic and environmental sustainability in the built environment achieved through innovative design, stakeholder engagement, and future monitoring to sustain itself. As the first operational Net Zero Energy city in Dubai, The Sustainable City is modelled to become an international showcase for sustainable living, work, education, and recreation across the region and the world in the coming years.

In addition, 5G will rely on “network slicing” – which enables operators to provide portions of their networks for specific customer uses cases, such as the smart home, the Internet of Things (IoT), connected cars, or the smart energy grid. Network slicing effectively replaces VLAN.

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• Turning Rock Partners sold its stake in Capital Square 1031. Financial terms weren’t disclosed.

We are planning to expand our installation business. We will continue to execute our marketing and sales strategy in Southern California and, with additional capital, will be able to expand our business to cover Northern California, or other states. The planned expansion is expected to occur through acquiring smaller installation companies in these regions and/or through the establishment of subsidiaries in these states and boost our installation profits. Our current intention is to establish two new offices located in Northern California or other states and in San Diego. The estimated start-up cost for each new branch would be approximately $500,000.

Solutions to help companies bridge the plastics recycling gap by removing dyes and other contamination have begun to emerge at a pace in recent times, with Procter & Gamble (P&G) and Nestle both investing in a chemical recycling process that restores used plastics to “near-virgin” quality and a coalition of supermarkets having teamed up in a bid to develop tech-led solutions for processing black plastics.

Of course, LEO operators could scale-up peak service capacity by launching ever bigger constellations or deploying bigger satellites with wider payloads. Or they might evolve increasingly intelligent ways to dynamically focus transponder bandwidth into a highly concentrated service region during a fly-by. That capability could be delivered incrementally as operators replenish a fleet or in-situ, by leveraging new software-defined space platforms such as the recently announced SmartSat from Lockheed Martin. At any rate, the most effective satellite IoT systems will be dimensioned to serve cost-effective “hot-spots” around major population hubs. Note that Geostationary Orbit (GEO) holds some clear advantages in this regard and this could hold some significance in certain network deployments.

Apple’s Beats brand in April unveiled the Powerbeats Pro, a redesigned wire-free version of its popular fitness-oriented Powerbeats earbuds.

In the UK, the marketplace for removal and capture methods has slowed, with Ministers facing continued criticism over their 2015 decision to axe a £1bn competition fund for carbon capture and storage (CCS) – a move which may cost the UK an additional £30bn if it is to meet its 2050 carbon targets.

To offset some of these risks in the solar sector, a solar park and solar zone model (as mentioned in question 12) have been proposed where solar tariffs have reduced considerably thanks to the plug and play model. Moreover, the GOI is working to build a green energy corridor for the evacuation of renewable energy from generation points to the main grid.