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Is It Time to Concentrate on Climate Adaptation?

Enterra Insights

Journalist Tim McDonnell reports, “A major paper released on the sidelines of the COP27 climate summit in Egypt has started a countdown. Millions of people in Asia, in cities like Mumbai, Beijing, and Tokyo, would be uprooted and have to move inland. … Dakar, Accra, Jeddah — gone. And in the U.S.,

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Ukraine and the Supply Chain

Enterra Insights

Supply disruptions in these and other key commodities will trigger price increases for economically vital products such as batteries, and hinder the manufacture of semiconductors, jet engines, automobiles, and some medicines.” That flow of grain makes up more than 70 percent of Egypt and Turkey’s total wheat imports.”[10]

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Podcast: Roberto Reichard on Reducing the Carbon Footprint of Capital Projects

Requis

I had the opportunity to work in Turkey, Egypt and in Venezuela. I spent a long time with Bechtel doing large projects all around the world including Mexico, Thailand, Egypt, and India. After that, I became vice president of projects in Southeast Asia. I then decided to go back to school. And this is a significant amount.

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Spire and Gravity Supply Chain solutions helping restore flow of goods

Gravity Supply Chain

Most of the container traffic flows across the Pacific Ocean or between Europe and Asia. These two innovations opened up the possibility of a diversified global manufacturing system in which products, including the parts that would be assembled into more advanced products elsewhere, could be made in the most cost-effective regions.