Future Insights blog

03 Nov 2021

October was a key month for Solar Breakthroughs It’s almost as if the final few months before the commencement of the crucial COP26 talks created an invisible countdown timer to bring several key solar innovati...

03 Nov 2021

Overcoming the imminent water crisis – global innovations... Last month, the World Meteorological Organization (WMO) released a stark report that says global governments and agencies remain unprepared for the looming worldw...

03 Nov 2021

Moving beyond recycling – The Lure of the Circular Economy Despite decades of being told to reduce waste and increase recycling, the world’s waste production woes are only increasing. What is the catalyst that can put a r...

04 Oct 2021

How will we pay for going ‘Net-Zero’? The expense of goin... Awareness, activism and investment around forging solutions to the global climate crisis are all on the rise. As more extreme weather events batter countries arou...

04 Oct 2021

The Middle East is betting big on Smart Cities to solve i... The Gulf region aims to boast a trillion-dollar digital economy by 2025. At the heart of this goal is the realisation of key smart city development dreams held fo...

04 Oct 2021

Solar Investment and Innovation outpaces supply problems Exciting times are ahead for the solar industry, as crucial innovations are being paired with ramped-up investment. This month, we take a look at the most importa...

01 Sep 2021

From experimentation to transformation – Clean energy is ... With COP26 just around the corner in November, there is a lot of talk about the need for ‘transformational’ approaches to combat climate change. The window to red...

01 Sep 2021

Managing microplastics – How are we battling yet another ... While carbon emissions and the subsequent crisis of climate change are uppermost in most people’s minds regarding environmental threats at the moment, microplasti...

01 Sep 2021

Middle East turns to tech leadership and innovation to ad... Water security is a perennial concern in one of the world’s hottest and most water-imbalanced regions. As a consequence, every month in 2021 so far has brought si...