Study offers greater insight into retail sales health of the city
Working with Mastercard and utilizing aggregated and anonymized merchant spend data, Helsinki develops approach to better understand the economic impact of Slush for its hometown.
Picture: 3D view of Helsinki, which shows sales trends during the second day of Slush 2018, compared to an average day in November.
Helsinki is determined to be the most functional city in the world by making the best use of digitalization. In pursuing this goal, Helsinki seeks to create the best conditions possible for urban life, for its residents and visitors. The city’s strategic intent is to do
Two fundamental goals of humanity are to eradicate poverty and reduce climate change, and it is critical that the world knows whether achieving these goals will involve trade-offs. New IIASA research for the first time provides a basis to answer this question, including the tools needed to relate basic needs directly to resource use.Researchers have been grappling with the question of how much energy societies actually need to satisfy everyone’s most basic needs for many years, but as global scenarios of climate stabilization assume strong reductions in energy demand growth in the face of
