On June 1, President Trump announced that the U.S. was withdrawing from the Paris Agreement on Climate Change. This treaty committed the U.S. - and 194 other countries - to reducing rising global temperatures.

France's Total SA, one of the world's largest oil companies, sent its top executives to Silicon Valley last summer, where they met with tech investors and futurists. At Tesla Inc.'s Bay Area factory, a Total executive tweeted a photo of a gleaming, red Model S - an electric car that burns no oil products at all.

From boardrooms and shareholder meetings to conferences and collaboration circles, it seems everyone is talking about the fourth Industrial Revolution (i4.0).

Eight major corporations including McDonald's and L'Oreal recently joined the supply chain platform of CDP - a nonprofit that drives companies and governments to reduce their greenhouse gas emissions, safeguard water resources and protect forests - to request information from key suppliers on how they are managing risks linked to deforestation. The companies say they are combining their purchasing power to achieve deforestation-free commodity supply chains.

For the past month, some miners in Turkey's Taurus Mountains have been wearing Bluetooth Low Energy (BLE) beacons as part of a real-time location system (RTLS) to help their employers view their location. The Leantegra BLE system, provided by telecom technology company Tagvance, enables the mine to meet federal regulations recently enacted by the Turkish government, in order to ensure that miners can be located at any time when in tunnels.