Data is the next frontier for environmental entrepreneurs

Data is the next big platform for entrepreneurship to deliver environmental benefits. Coupled with clean technologies, it also just might be the purest form of sunshine.

A 2016 report by Goldman Sachs estimates that the application of digital techniques has the potential to increase crop yields by 70 per cent by 2050.Flickr photograph by Ryan Cheney

Opinion

BY LEAH LAWRENCE

June 13, 2018

More than 150 Canadian entrepreneurs and other senior leaders in business and government recently gathered in Ottawa at Sustainable Development Technology Canada’s annual summit to discuss the changing global competitive environment for clean technologies. Not so long ago, the discussion would ha...

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