The Neutral Group, a carbon consultancy with offices in New York and London, has evidently decided that the opportunities presented by the combination of IRENA and Masdar in Abu Dhabi are too great to resist.
The firm announced today that it will re-locate its headquarters to Masdar City, the zero-carbon development at the edge of the capital, after eying $250 million in financially attractive projects in the region that "are currently stalled due to lack carbon-abatement expertise and suitable financing".
The firm helps other companies to measure their carbon footprint and figure out ways to reduce it. It lists BP, DHL and Marks & Spencer as customers.
"We now really feel like one of Masdar's partners, working to realise the Masdar City vision," Karl Feilder, the Neutral Group chairman, said in a press release.
The announcement is a small but important win for Masdar, which has not announced the large number of corporate tenants for the city experts had expected earlier this year. Key tenants now include General Electric and IRENA, while Switzerland's government has expressed interest in creating a "Swiss village" of the country's companies in the city.
Top tips to avoid cyber fraud
Microsoft’s ‘hacker-in-chief’ David Weston, creator of the tech company’s Windows Red Team, advises simple steps to help people avoid falling victim to cyber fraud:
1. Always get the latest operating system on your smartphone or desktop, as it will have the latest innovations. An outdated OS can erode away all investments made in securing your device or system.
2. After installing the latest OS version, keep it patched; this means repairing system vulnerabilities which are discovered after the infrastructure components are released in the market. The vast majority of attacks are based on out of date components – there are missing patches.
3. Multi-factor authentication is required. Move away from passwords as fast as possible, particularly for anything financial. Cybercriminals are targeting money through compromising the users’ identity – his username and password. So, get on the next level of security using fingertips or facial recognition.
4. Move your personal as well as professional data to the cloud, which has advanced threat detection mechanisms and analytics to spot any attempt. Even if you are hit by some ransomware, the chances of restoring the stolen data are higher because everything is backed up.
5. Make the right hardware selection and always refresh it. We are in a time where a number of security improvement processes are reliant on new processors and chip sets that come with embedded security features. Buy a new personal computer with a trusted computing module that has fingerprint or biometric cameras as additional measures of protection.
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Started: 2018
Founders: Roman Axelrod, Valentyn Volkov
Based: Dubai, UAE
Industry: Smart contact lenses, augmented/virtual reality
Funding: $40 million
Investor: Opportunity Venture (Asia)