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The 91-year-old bank is a ma-
jor financier of green projects
and renewable energy in the
Middle East, especially in its
home base, Jordan—a nation
rich in green-power potential
but still heavily dependent on
fossil-fuel energy imports. To
help move that needle, the
bank has provided $267 mil-
lion in loans and other
financing to support green
infrastructure since 2012.
Arab Bank has backed major
wind and solar projects in
Jordan and Egypt, as well as
Jordan’s As-Samra Wastewater
Treatment Plant—a crucial
resource in one of the most
water-scarce countries in the
world. Arab Bank calculates
that it has helped the region
avoid 905,000 tons of green-
house gas emissions annually,
while helping add more than
1,350 megawatts of annual
renewable energy capacity to
Jordan’s power grid.The personal computer and
printing giant relies on plastics
for many of its products—and
an ever-growing share of those
plastics is recycled. In 2019 HP
released the Elite Dragonfly
laptop and a carbon neutral–
certified printer, both built
using ocean-bound plastics;
it also opened a recycling
facility for such plastics in Haiti
that will help source materials
for its products. HP has also
met its goal of ensuring that
its branded printing paper,
of which it sells thousands of
tons per year, comes only from
zero- deforestation sources;
the company planted 1 million
trees in 2020 as part of that
effort.2,799
GIGAWATTS
TOTAL GLOBAL
RENEWABLE-ENERGY
GENERATION
CAPACITY
YEAR-END 202082%
RENEWABLES’ SHARE
OF NEW GENERATION
CAPACITY IN 2020SOURCE: IRENASometimes terri-
ble errors happen
in medicine—a
patient gets sur-
gery on the wrong
body part, or
stitched up with
a foreign object
still inside them
(an estimated
4,500 to 6,000
times a year in the
U.S. alone). Other
times, mundane
accidents lead
to fatal results.
Stryker, the
medical-device
maker, partners
with hospitals
to prevent such
“never events”
and make the pa-
tient experience
safer. Its $6.4 bil-
lion medical and
surgical divisions
sell products like
the SurgiCount
Safety-Sponge
System (to ensure
no sponges are
left behind in a
patient’s body),
ProCuity beds (to
protect against
falls, a million-
time-per-year
accident), and re-
positioning prod-
ucts designed to
prevent pressure
injuries, which
affect more than
2.5 million pa-
tients a year, and
can lead to infec-
tion and death. To
encourage proper
training and
better outcomes,
Stryker makes
risk-sharing
agreements, of-
fering customers
reimbursements
if they don’t see a
reduction in such
events.
Critical as they are,
clinical trials are
often bottlenecks
for medical break-
throughs. While
70% of people
say they would
participate in such
trials, few who
could benefit do
so, because enroll-
ment is logistically
complicated and
geographically lim-
ited. Such hurdles
help explain why
just 3% of adult
cancer patients
get an investiga-
tional therapy, and
why drug trials end
up taking so long
and becoming so
expensive.
To tackle this
unfortunate inef-
ficiency, Tempus,
a precision medi-
cine company,
unleashed its big-
data tools to create
the TIME trial
program, which
quickly connects
patients, provid-
ers, and pharma
companies, and
facilitates clinical
trial initiation in
new locations
(that is, close to a
patient’s home).
Since 2019, Tem-
pus has identified
more than 5,000
patients for trials—
and it activates
those patients’ trial
sites in roughly 10
days, compared
with the industry’s
20-week average.
That’s precious
time for drug com-
panies, who pay
to participate in
Tempus’s network,
and for cancer
patients alike.NO. 50
Stryker
Helping hospitals
eliminate
accidents.
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Tempus
Shortening the
journey for break-
through drugs.
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Arab Bank
Financing green energy in
the heartland of fossil fuels.
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HP
Lightening the planetary
footprint of printers,
paper, and laptops.
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Jordan’s As-Samra
plant, funded in part
by Arab Bank, treats
wastewater for use
in crop irrigation—an
essential service in a
very dry region.COURTESY OF ARAB BANK