Signify Academy Sustainability audiobooks

Australia’s coal industry plays an outsized role in the economy, employing 46,000 people and generating over 50% of electricity. The country is now dealing with the effects of this fossil fuel. Australia’s average temperature has increased by over 1.47°C since 1910, and extreme weather events—including wildfires, flooding, and drought—have all increased in recent decades. Listen and learn more.  ...

Implementing LED lighting enables cities to take immediate action to become more energy efficient as well as deliver social, financial and ecological benefits. Listen to an article published on SmartCitiesWorld written by Harry Verhaar: Head of Global Public & Government Affairs, Signify. Relevant links: Flipping the Green Switch for Europe Brighten America for the US Graphs: Above and below s...

Connected lighting systems offer young people a better classroom experience   When the pens went down on a new agreement to increase energy efficiency rates across the European Union, it’s hard to know whether negotiators were thinking about what the agreement’s impact would be on millions of young students.  Students switch off when they are forced to sit in classrooms which are either too dark o...

Find out more on how making the Green Switch or Brighten America can benefit your city and citizens, and our planet. Find out more connecting LED lighting to a network Contact Us for commercial inquiries

Find out more on how making the Green Switch can benefit your city and citizens, and our planet. More about the European Green Deal Industrial Plan . Contact Us for commercial inquiries

China’s “dual carbon” strategy seeks to peak the country’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2030 and become carbon neutral by 2060. These twin goals are expected to create trillions of dollars of investment opportunities, with significant gains for emissions-reduction technologies and low-carbon industries. More information can be found on our website Contact Us for commercial inquirees

 Five approaches municipalities can take to combat fossil fuel overdependency and soaring energy bills To find out more about how lighting can play its part in tackling the energy crisis, visit our Green Switch site.

Energy-saving lighting blackouts put structural issues in the shadows Find out more on how making the Green Switch can benefit your city and citizens, and our planet. Contact Us for commercial inquiries

Cities Climate Action Report The inaugural Cities Climate Action Report from SmartCitiesWorld demonstrates the priorities of global cities as they look to build environmental sustainability and resilience for citizens. Download the full report here Please visit our web site signify.com/global/sustainability to discover more information about our sustainability strategy.  Contact Us for commercial...

An understated COP provided a few big wins—and some troubling losses Discover more about our Green Switch programme, and how lighting is one of the quickest, easiest ways to take action and make a difference, now. Contact Us for commercial inquiries

The electrification of transportation, heating, and other service systems are overloading the grid to a point where countries are at or near capacity. Lighting alone accounts for 13% of global electricity usage. Around half of all light points in the US and EU are still conventional—an enormous opportunity for rapid reductions of lighting-related energy consumption. LED lighting retrofits are rela...

In this moment of urgency on climate action, the conclusion of Sharm el-Sheik’s COP27 seemed to satisfy no one. Its legacy is a hard-wrought implementation plan that combines heartening glimpses of progress with some equally disappointing gaps.  Discover more on how switching to connected LED can benefit us all, here . Contact Us for commercial inquiries

What are the t op 5 IoT sustainability trends to look out for in 2023. The new year brings familiar problems for cities around the world. Many countries are still facing a multitude of crises: climate change continues to accelerate, economies are under pressure, and consumers are coping with inflation and skyrocketing energy bills and a new year also brings a renewed sense of optimism and fresh fo...

The time for municipalities to act on energy efficiency is now. Switching conventional, energy-efficient lighting to highly efficient LED and connected LED lighting is an easy win for cities of all sizes. Taking immediate action will help put Europe on the trajectory set out in the European Green Deal. Weighing the potential benefits against the current crises, you can’t afford not to. Link to Gre...