After the success of the last Chamber Academy, SwissCham Beijing, in collaboration with Procurement and Supply Chain Academy, the Bencham and the Swedish Chamber, is delighted to invite you to our upcoming online training series in order to stay ahead of the changing times in which time is becoming increasingly valuable and also other circumstances could make it inconvenient to visit trainings on location. It will be a great opportunity to...

As urban populations continue to expand and citizens’ expectations grow, the development of smart cities – enabled, powered and integrated by digital technologies – is set to be one of the crowning achievements of societies worldwide in the 21st century.

We would like to remind you there are just a few weeks to go for the UAE Emirates Startup Roadshow, an initiative of The Annual Investment Meeting in collaboration with their Sustainable Partner, Bedayat by Sustainable City to be held on 17th and 20th September, 2020. Make sure to register!

The Central Bank of Brazil (Banco Central do Brasil) and Climate Bonds Initiative have signed a new Memorandum of Understanding (MoU) with the objective of promoting a sustainable finance agenda and integration of socio-environmental and climatic risks in the national financial sector.

China’s green bond market is already the second largest in the world, hitting $31.3bn of certified issuance in 2019, according to data from the Climate Bonds Initiative. It only looks likely to get bigger. A recent plan to remove clean coal from the list of eligible green bond projects in the onshore market will bring China much closer to international standards ─ and encourage a surge of investment from foreign portfolio managers.

This year’s edition of our annual event will highlight our 10-year vision for climate bonds: the Transition Decade. Climate Bonds Initiative will bring together global green finance leaders to discuss the climate emergency and address long-term perspectives on transition.

Less than a decade ago, energy companies scoffed at Chile’s willingness to develop its renewable energy sector, dismissing it as too expensive, even though the Andean country enjoys one of the best sunny conditions in the world.

Sacyr has begun operations in the Chilean water industry through four companies it acquired in February. According to Sacyr, they represent a portfolio of contracts worth 500 million euros.

Magna Steyr in Graz has signed a preliminary agreement with the California-based car manufacturer Fsiker to potentially build a battery-powered electric luxury SUV.

The 4th Industry Revolution has begun. Unlike the steam that power our factories in the first revolution or the mass production model that dominating the second or the emergence of the computer driven system from the third revolution that we are living today, Industry 4.0 is about CONNECTIVITY.