article thumbnail

Come Home With Memories, Not a Shocking Phone Bill

Baua Electric

There are two major options: You can get a data plan directly through your phone company or you can swap out your phone’s SIM card, a small chip that stores data about you and your carrier — on newer phones, you can use an app that does the same thing. Some exceptions: Cuba and the Maldives. Exceptions: Cuba and the Maldives.

article thumbnail

Perspective: Why Carbon Emissions Should Not Have Been the Focus of the UN Climate Change Summit and Why the 15th Conference of the Parties Should Have Focused on Technology Transfer

Green Car Congress

Island states like the Maldives and Grenada argue that a 2 °C target, which is considered by many scientists to be the safe upper limit for warming, will still result in a high enough sea-level rise to wipe them from existence. For companies, a main worry constitutes the risk of imitation by the partner.