World leaders gathered in Baku, Azerbaijan, earlier this month to discuss setting more ambitious plans of action to tackle environmental issues such as cutting greenhouse gas emissions at the 2024 United Nations Climate Change Conference, also known as Cop29.
The continuing global threat posed by long-term shifts in temperatures and weather patterns, air pollution and the loss of species caused by climate change has increasingly led to individuals, companies, governments and national and international organisations working together to tackle the problems.
Huawei Technologies, a leading Chinese global provider of information and communications technology infrastructure and smart devices, launched its Tech4All initiative in 2019 to carry out projects using its digital technologies and multi-stakeholder partnerships to help create a more inclusive and sustainable world.
The initiative includes the company’s work focused on environmental protection while teaming up with both local and global organisations to lead conservation projects across 53 of the Earth’s protected forest, wetland and ocean ecosystems.
“Over the past five years, Huawei’s Tech4All programme has demonstrated how technology can be a powerful force for good, addressing global challenges in environmental protection, education and digital inclusion,” Harvey Zhang, CEO of Huawei Austria, said.
Huawei’s technology has been used for the past three years to study Lake Neusiedl – covering 315 sq km on the border of two Central European nations: 240 sq km in Austria and 75 sq km in Hungary – which is home to a rich biodiversity, including numerous bird species.