Over the next week the report being finalised at a United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC), meeting in Korea, will see an outpouring of alarmist material. Doom-laden factoids and forecasts will be released, all designed to head off an impending collapse in the “consensus” that reached its apogee in the Obama era. Culminating in the 2015 Paris Agreement, an EU-US axis led policy development on regulatory measures to suppress emissions of carbon dioxide and other greenhouse gases. Most fundamentally the strategy involved bearing down on the use of coal and other fossil fuels to the electricity supply industry and replacing these sources with wind and solar.

Developed countries agreed to reduce emissions by around 26%; successful developing countries, such as China and India, said they would fallTM Forum, a global trade association that focuses on the digital economy, has just announced the launch of the TM Forum API Zone, featuring a suite of REST-based APIs designed to provide management functionality for end-to-end digital services. These new digital services management APIs were tested and integrated into a variety of apps at the 2013 TM Forum Digital Disruption Conference.

The brand new TM Forum API Zone is part of the TM Forum Open Digital Program, a program that focuses on the digital economy and provides market intelligence and research, an open digital ecosystem, digital disruption conferences, and other tools for enterprises to manage complex digital services and achieve success in today's digital economy. Laurent Leboucher, Vice President of APIs and Digital Ecosystems at Orange, states for the