{"id":584569,"date":"2023-04-02T00:00:00","date_gmt":"2023-04-02T00:00:00","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/04\/02\/will-advancing-sdgs-actually-curb-population-growth-plus-google-and-microsoft-are-squabbling-over-cloud-dominance\/"},"modified":"2023-04-02T00:00:00","modified_gmt":"2023-04-02T00:00:00","slug":"will-advancing-sdgs-actually-curb-population-growth-plus-google-and-microsoft-are-squabbling-over-cloud-dominance","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/enterpriseam.com\/egypt\/2023\/04\/02\/will-advancing-sdgs-actually-curb-population-growth-plus-google-and-microsoft-are-squabbling-over-cloud-dominance\/","title":{"rendered":"Will advancing SDGs actually curb population growth? Plus: Google and Microsoft are squabbling over cloud dominance"},"content":{"rendered":"<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"\"> <\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Investments to curb poverty and advance SDGs could contribute to reducing population<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\"> growth by 2100<\/span><span>, new <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/4\/E4A_People-and-Planet_Report.pdf\" style=\"\">research (<\/a><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/4\/E4A_People-and-Planet_Report.pdf\" style=\"\">pdf<\/a><\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/ent.news\/2023\/4\/E4A_People-and-Planet_Report.pdf\" style=\"\">)<\/a><\/span><span> commissioned by the <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.clubofrome.org\/\" style=\"\">Club of Rome<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> suggests. Improvements in quality of life \u2014 ranging from more equality to better education \u2014 could mean declining birth rates. Experts project that with sufficient economic development, the global population could be down to 7 bn people as GDP is negatively correlated with fertility rates, the research shows. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">The study compares different findings to assess what is sustainable:<\/span><span style=\"\"> While Club of<\/span><span> Rome\u2019s projections forecast a population decline with higher anti-poverty investments, research conducted by the UN predicts, on the contrary, that the global population could breach 10 <\/span><span>bn people<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> by 2080. The Earth4All study juxtaposes these different scenarios, achieved through four different demographic approaches, to answer a number of questions including \u201chow many people could Earth\u2019s biosphere support?\u201d and \u201chow many people could live sustainably on Earth\u201d?<\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">The world population is not the first culprit: <\/span><span style=\"\">Whether the number of births increase or<\/span><span> decrease over the coming century, one thing is certain: Population size is \u201cnot the prime driver\" behind climate change, experts speaking on the subject were quoted as saying in an article by <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/news.sky.com\/story\/global-population-could-fall-to-six-billion-with-unprecedented-investment-in-tackling-poverty-researchers-say-12843433&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1680446196352880&usg=AOvVaw2lt2Y8rfbBNxZB8gXUNXKr\" style=\"\">Sky News<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\">. Rather, what is more detrimental is inflated material footprints caused by a select elite at the expense of the majority, according to Jorgen Randers, one of the study\u2019s lead researchers. \u201cLuxury carbon and biosphere consumption\u201d are the main obstacles standing between humanity and a more sustainable future. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"><\/p>\n<hr style=\"height:2px;border-width:0;color:gray;background-color:gray\">\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Google has complained to EU regulators about alleged anti-competitive cloud practices<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:700\"> from Microsoft<\/span><span>, claiming that Microsoft is using \u201cbundling practices [...] and pricing and licensing restrictions\u201d to make it harder for customers to choose other providers, <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/www.reuters.com\/technology\/google-says-microsofts-cloud-practices-anti-competitive-slams-deals-with-rivals-2023-03-30\/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1680446196353495&usg=AOvVaw3g9PPvSSi99wRAuMRnPrgW\" style=\"\">Reuters<\/a><\/span><span> reported. Google claims that Microsoft gained this \u201cunfair advantage\u201d by striking agreements with smaller European companies, which it says <\/span><span>are<\/span><span> just a way of co-opting smaller players and staving off probes by antitrust regulators after said players had filed complaints, an unnamed source told the newswire. Those agreements create an \u201cunfair advantage to Microsoft and ties the people who complained back to Microsoft anyway,\u201d Vice President Amit Zavery told Reuters. Despite its latest bargains, Microsoft still faces another complaint from <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/cispe.cloud\/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1680446196353763&usg=AOvVaw2tG18hr3pBS9tOMk3-YwUO\" style=\"\">CISPE<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> \u2014  a group that includes the market\u2019s top player, Amazon. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">The stakes have never been higher as the cloud\u2019s impact is unprecedented: <\/span><span style=\"\">A fact that<\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> calls for a serious change as Microsoft\u2019s domination is contrary to the very premise of the cloud which was to provide openness and flexibility to customers\u2019 softwares, Zavery said. Resolving particular issues with individual vendors does not address the issue of larger licensing controversies, he added. <\/span><\/p>\n<p style=\"padding:0;margin:0;line-height:1.15;orphans:2;widows:2;text-align:left\"><span style=\"font-weight:700\">Microsoft\u2019s response has been underwhelming.<\/span><span style=\"\"> The company\u2019s answer to the barrage of<\/span><span> accusations has been to refer to a months-old <\/span><span style=\"text-decoration-skip-ink:none;-webkit-text-decoration-skip:none;\"><a href=\"https:\/\/www.google.com\/url?q=https:\/\/blogs.microsoft.com\/eupolicy\/2022\/05\/18\/microsoft-responds-to-european-cloud-provider-feedback-with-new-programs-and-principles\/&sa=D&source=editors&ust=1680446196354384&usg=AOvVaw1bZILqGfyAy2eAbLxs5Z7J\" style=\"\">blogpost<\/a><\/span><span style=\"font-weight:400;\"> by company President Brad Smith in which he acknowledged that some of the antitrust issues raised are valid and the company is working to address them through five \u201ccloud principles\u201d including serving European player\u2019s needs and values and supporting European software developers.<\/span><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>Global population could dip to 7 bn with adequate economic development<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":584570,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"single-feature.php","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"newspack_ads_suppress_ads":false,"newspack_popups_has_disabled_popups":false,"newspack_sponsor_sponsorship_scope":"","newspack_sponsor_native_byline_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_native_category_display":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_style":"inherit","newspack_sponsor_underwriter_placement":"inherit","ep_exclude_from_search":false,"_primary_brand":0,"newspack_featured_image_position":"","newspack_post_subtitle":"","newspack_article_summary_title":"Overview:","newspack_article_summary":"","newspack_hide_updated_date":false,"newspack_show_updated_date":false,"_jetpack_memberships_contains_paid_content":false,"footnotes":""},"categories":[7215],"tags":[104,633,638,1143,462,493],"brand":[],"newspack_spnsrs_tax":[],"class_list":["post-584569","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-for-your-commute","tag-economy","tag-enterprisepm","tag-for-your-commute","tag-google","tag-microsoft","tag-sdgs","wpautop","entry"],"acf":{"mongo_id":"f2e28481-7f17-4426-aae9-9ad6e12adfa7","is_powered_by":false,"story_type":"1","photo_url":"https:\/\/ent.news\/2021\/8\/19.jpg","photo_position":"above","homepage_title":"","full_issue_title":"","related_issue":[584564],"teaser":"Global population could dip to 7 bn with adequate economic development","voice_url":"https:\/\/s3.us-east-1.amazonaws.com\/ent.news\/audio\/2023\/4\/.2938545f-b8ac-4719-ac23-6231a0975e3b.mp3"},"yoast_head":"<!-- This site is optimized with the Yoast SEO Premium plugin v27.1 (Yoast SEO v27.1.1) - https:\/\/yoast.com\/product\/yoast-seo-premium-wordpress\/ -->\n<title>Will advancing SDGs actually curb population growth? 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