As the degradation of
ecosystem services becomes ever more apparent, many non-profits, governments, and businesses are using innovative financial incentives to conserve and restore them.
Not exact matches
As the hardware
becomes more and more indistinguishable, the next focus of the smartphone wars will be about locking consumers into an
ecosystem of content and
services.
Krasner: I kind of imagine the district attorney's office that, like a lot of government agencies in modern times,
becomes part of an
ecosystem of nonprofits who surround it and can provide important
services.
1 is 1 project, to
become the digitalization assistant for all industries; 3 is the three roles of connector, toolbox and
ecosystem builder; 5 is the five remits of civic
services, consumption, manufacturing
services, health and environmental protection; and 7 refers to the seven tools of public accounts, mini programs, mobile payments, social media advertising, safety capabilities and something referred to as big - smart - cloud: big data, AI capabilities and cloud computing.
We also recommend the public broadcaster begin
becoming a digital - age public news
service by moving to open its content to other participants in the Canadian media
ecosystem.
It is truly a watershed moment, with Apple poised to take market share from Google (Android) in the premium device market as iPhone 6
becomes Apple's flagship device among a growing collection of products and
services that work together to form an increasingly dominant mobile
ecosystem.
Daniel Zhang, Alibaba Group's chief operating officer, said in a press conference last week that he hopes the 11.11 sale will
become a true global shopping event in five to 10 years as Alibaba's e-commerce
ecosystem, once largely confined within China's borders, continues to expand internationally through collaboration with more governments, banks and postal
services in order to give shoppers everywhere a seamless, «local» e-commerce experience — no matter where the merchants they patronize are located.
«Landscape - scale management, natural capital and
ecosystem services initiatives are
becoming increasingly important in light of increasing pressure on the UK's natural environment from development, population growth and climate change.
But even if oyster farming does not
become a major solution to reducing nitrogen in Great Bay, Grizzle emphasizes that oyster farming still provides valuable
ecosystem services.
It is also
becoming clear that microbes provide
ecosystem services that are crucial to local and global sustainability.
The assessment reveals that, if those trends continue, freely available
ecosystem services will cease to be available or will
become more costly in the near future.
«To compete, Microsoft needs to create compelling
ecosystem proposition for consumers and developers across all mobile devices, as tablets and smartphones
become key devices for delivering applications and
services to users beyond the PC,» writes Cozza.
«To compete, Microsoft needs to create compelling
ecosystem proposition for consumers and developers across all mobile devices, as tablets and smartphones
become key devices for delivering applications and
services to users beyond the PC,» said Ms. Cozza.
To best estimate the amount of carbon the Tolo River community could prevent from being emitted, COCOMASUR teamed up with Anthrotect, a U.S. - based organization that «works with community landholders to implement payment for
ecosystem services projects that connect communities with emerging markets for carbon and biodiversity,» according to documents filed with the Verified Carbon Standard (VCS), which is the certification program under which they chose to
become certified.
Western type restaurants and coffee shops are as common on the streets of Beijing, as international brands of clothing and other products — Goods and
services previously seen as luxuries — TVs, mobile phones and cars — have now
become necessities... However, the price is paid in the form of degradation of many
ecosystem services and the exacerbation of inequities and disparities between people.»
Kathy MacAfee, Associate Professor of International Relations at SF State, argues that «
Ecosystem services have
become the latest in a long history of tropical - commodity miracle crops» that «are no more likely to boost prosperity for the majority in the exporting regions than did coffee, sugar, rubber, or any such commodities in the past.»
Developing an Infrastructure Fund for the Planet explored how
ecosystem service payments and markets in carbon, water and biodiversity are quickly
becoming a key solution to the urgent environmental problems of climate change, fresh water pollution, biodiversity loss, soil erosion, and destruction of our coastal and marine systems.
The manual concludes that if agriculture aims to adapt to climate change and achieve food security and nutrition goals in the coming decades, food production systems and
ecosystems need to
become more flexible, multifunctional and capable of providing multiple
services.
Users entrenched in the Apple
ecosystem won't care, but it's
becoming necessary for
service providers to bring their content to as many screens as possible.
Chen Xudong, currently president of Lenovo's China geography and Asia Pacific — Emerging Markets, will
become CEO of the still unnamed new company, while Liu Jun, executive vice president and head of Lenovo's Mobile Business Group, and George He, senior vice president and head of Lenovo's
Ecosystem and Cloud
Services Group, will be the co-chairmen.
Most Bitcoin and blockchain industry leaders also do believe that Bitcoin will one day disrupt the financial market and
become a trillion dollar
ecosystem that will power many decentralized applications and
services.
AidCoin is an ERC20 token — based on the Ethereum Blockchain — that will
become a method of giving and paying
service fees throughout the nonprofit
ecosystem.
The workforce technology
ecosystem is
becoming increasingly crowded and complicated, and managed
service programs (MSP) providers are well positioned to guide their customers through these and other workforce management challenges.