This document discusses the future of carbon markets following the Cancun climate talks. It suggests that while there was little appetite for a top-down framework, countries may establish top-down emission reduction targets met through bottom-up mechanisms like emissions trading schemes and offset programs. The Clean Development Mechanism is unlikely to deliver large emission cuts and new market mechanisms aim to scale up reductions beyond pure offsetting. A bottom-up evolution of linked domestic carbon markets could emerge without a binding international agreement if countries commit to transparency and mitigation efforts. Key issues for this approach include accounting, reporting, and criteria for traded units.
This presentation was made by Leah Ambler of the OECD Anti-Bribery Division at the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption in St Petersburg on 2-6 November 2015. http://www.oecd.org/corruption/anti-bribery/
EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive: How companies can make the most of it!CDSB
Slides from the launch of the Environmental reporting handbook, which offers companies ideas about what reporting environmental information under the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive could look like in practice.
The handbook uses real-life examples of annual reports to demonstrate reporting under each requirement of Directive and to show what constitutes good practice.
Download the handbook from http://cdsb.net/nfrhandbook
The Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project also includes key actions that include exchange of information as well as the elimination of harmful tax practices and mutual agreement procedures to ensure that tax treaties are applied consistent with their intents and purposes. The Inclusive Framework on BEPS, which now counts more than 100 member jurisdictions, conducts peer reviews of the implementation of BEPS action items on exchange of tax rulings, country-by-country reporting, harmful preferential tax regimes and the efficiency of mutual agreement procedures. Also, an important tool for BEPS implementation is the BEPS Multilateral Instrument (MLI), which allows signatories to quickly update its treaties to conform with BEPS tax treaty related measures. Mr. Pross will provide an overview of the BEPS implementation phase and its results so far. Ms. Chatel and Mr. Evers will focus on the importance and impact of the MLI which has been signed by close to 70 jurisdictions and which is currently under ratification in many of them.
Peter Sweatman, Climate Strategy & Partners - Clean energy investments to sup...OECD Environment
Presentation from 7th OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investment (6-9 October, 2020), Closing Session: Clean energy investments to support a sustainable COVID recovery - Peter Sweatman, Climate Strategy & Partners
This presentation was made by Leah Ambler of the OECD Anti-Bribery Division at the Conference of States Parties to the UN Convention against Corruption in St Petersburg on 2-6 November 2015. http://www.oecd.org/corruption/anti-bribery/
EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive: How companies can make the most of it!CDSB
Slides from the launch of the Environmental reporting handbook, which offers companies ideas about what reporting environmental information under the EU Non-Financial Reporting Directive could look like in practice.
The handbook uses real-life examples of annual reports to demonstrate reporting under each requirement of Directive and to show what constitutes good practice.
Download the handbook from http://cdsb.net/nfrhandbook
The Base Erosion and Profit Shifting (BEPS) project also includes key actions that include exchange of information as well as the elimination of harmful tax practices and mutual agreement procedures to ensure that tax treaties are applied consistent with their intents and purposes. The Inclusive Framework on BEPS, which now counts more than 100 member jurisdictions, conducts peer reviews of the implementation of BEPS action items on exchange of tax rulings, country-by-country reporting, harmful preferential tax regimes and the efficiency of mutual agreement procedures. Also, an important tool for BEPS implementation is the BEPS Multilateral Instrument (MLI), which allows signatories to quickly update its treaties to conform with BEPS tax treaty related measures. Mr. Pross will provide an overview of the BEPS implementation phase and its results so far. Ms. Chatel and Mr. Evers will focus on the importance and impact of the MLI which has been signed by close to 70 jurisdictions and which is currently under ratification in many of them.
Peter Sweatman, Climate Strategy & Partners - Clean energy investments to sup...OECD Environment
Presentation from 7th OECD Forum on Green Finance and Investment (6-9 October, 2020), Closing Session: Clean energy investments to support a sustainable COVID recovery - Peter Sweatman, Climate Strategy & Partners
Managing Economic Transformation and Value Chains Development: What Role for SADC Member States and the SADC Secretariat?
5-6 April 2016, Cresta Hotel, Gaborone, Botswana
OECD - Fiscal Network Work Programme (Item5)OECDtax
Presentation delivered during the 13th Annual Meeting of the OECD Network on Fiscal Relations Across Levels of Government, 23-24 November 2017, Paris, France.
The new working paper “The Empirics of Enabling Investment and Innovation in Renewable Energy” provides insights on the key policy drivers and barriers to investment and innovation in renewable power in OECD and G20 countries. Based on econometric analysis, it assesses the impacts of climate mitigation policies and the quality of the investment environment on both investment and patenting activity in renewable-power generation since 2000. The analysis also assesses how the investment environment and related policy misalignments influence the effect of climate mitigation policies in encouraging renewables investment and innovation.
www.oecd.org/daf/inv/investment-policy/clean-energy-infrastructure.htm
In its Third Assessment Report (TAR), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that human activities are the main contributors to global warming. Each nation is adopting measures to combat issues related to climate change. Global initiatives have been taken up by governments and companies to reduce the impact of their operations on the environment. To help these organizations better understand their carbon footprint, reporting systems for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were created. GHG emissions are disclosed either through regulated schemes or through voluntary reporting.
Managing Economic Transformation and Value Chains Development: What Role for SADC Member States and the SADC Secretariat?
5-6 April 2016, Cresta Hotel, Gaborone, Botswana
OECD - Fiscal Network Work Programme (Item5)OECDtax
Presentation delivered during the 13th Annual Meeting of the OECD Network on Fiscal Relations Across Levels of Government, 23-24 November 2017, Paris, France.
The new working paper “The Empirics of Enabling Investment and Innovation in Renewable Energy” provides insights on the key policy drivers and barriers to investment and innovation in renewable power in OECD and G20 countries. Based on econometric analysis, it assesses the impacts of climate mitigation policies and the quality of the investment environment on both investment and patenting activity in renewable-power generation since 2000. The analysis also assesses how the investment environment and related policy misalignments influence the effect of climate mitigation policies in encouraging renewables investment and innovation.
www.oecd.org/daf/inv/investment-policy/clean-energy-infrastructure.htm
In its Third Assessment Report (TAR), the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change concludes that human activities are the main contributors to global warming. Each nation is adopting measures to combat issues related to climate change. Global initiatives have been taken up by governments and companies to reduce the impact of their operations on the environment. To help these organizations better understand their carbon footprint, reporting systems for greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions were created. GHG emissions are disclosed either through regulated schemes or through voluntary reporting.
Carbon markets 101 introduces the market mechanisms under the Kyoto Protocol and related initiatives. It helps executives and managers understand emerging business issues around carbon trading, emission reduction projects and carbon monitoring.
Thomas Sterner deltog i arbetet med IPCC:s tredje delrapport i den femte rapporten om klimatförändringarna. Fores anordnade tillsammans med Mistra Swecia och Mistra Indigo ett seminarium där bland annat Thomas Sterner deltog och presenterade de viktigaste slutsatserna från den tredje delrapporten.
Video från seminariet finns här: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mGYGU07Bdec&list=UUswRg-zqyKXceYXwtZXNeiA
Presentation based on the report Climate Change Clubs and the UNFCCC. The report may be downloadede here: http://fores.se/wp/wp-content/uploads/2013/11/ClimateClubsAndTheUNFCCC-FORES-Study-2013-3.pdf
Mattias Goldman talesperson från Gröna Bilister deltog på FORES seminarium och rapportlansering: "Etanolens hållbarhet – en litteraturöversikt". Goldman menar på att media har rapporterat en snedvriden bild av etanolen som används i Sverige.
Noll liter etanol som producerats i Afrika har vi EU. Småbönder i Sydamerika som producerar etanol från sockerrör kommer att påverkas negativt av den felaktiga debatten om vår etanol dödar barn i Afrika.
Det finns flera fördelar med att länka utsläppshandeln i EU och Kalifornien och de svårigheter som finns är inte större än att de kan lösas med politisk vilja. Det är huvudslutsatsen i en ny studie från tankesmedjan FORES och IVL Svenska miljöinstitutet.
Europas system för handel med utsläppsrätter, EU ETS, är världens största och reglerar hälften av Europas utsläpp. Runt om i världen etableras nu liknande system, bland annat i Kalifornien. Genom att länka samman olika system blir marknaden större och utsläppen kan minskas på ett mer kostnadseffektivt sätt, eftersom fler billiga utsläppsminskningar görs tillgängliga.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 3DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 3. In this session, we will cover desktop automation along with UI automation.
Topics covered:
UI automation Introduction,
UI automation Sample
Desktop automation flow
Pradeep Chinnala, Senior Consultant Automation Developer @WonderBotz and UiPath MVP
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
Neuro-symbolic is not enough, we need neuro-*semantic*Frank van Harmelen
Neuro-symbolic (NeSy) AI is on the rise. However, simply machine learning on just any symbolic structure is not sufficient to really harvest the gains of NeSy. These will only be gained when the symbolic structures have an actual semantics. I give an operational definition of semantics as “predictable inference”.
All of this illustrated with link prediction over knowledge graphs, but the argument is general.
Kubernetes & AI - Beauty and the Beast !?! @KCD Istanbul 2024Tobias Schneck
As AI technology is pushing into IT I was wondering myself, as an “infrastructure container kubernetes guy”, how get this fancy AI technology get managed from an infrastructure operational view? Is it possible to apply our lovely cloud native principals as well? What benefit’s both technologies could bring to each other?
Let me take this questions and provide you a short journey through existing deployment models and use cases for AI software. On practical examples, we discuss what cloud/on-premise strategy we may need for applying it to our own infrastructure to get it to work from an enterprise perspective. I want to give an overview about infrastructure requirements and technologies, what could be beneficial or limiting your AI use cases in an enterprise environment. An interactive Demo will give you some insides, what approaches I got already working for real.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
My and Rik Marselis slides at 30.5.2024 DASA Connect conference. We discuss about what is testing, then what is agile testing and finally what is Testing in DevOps. Finally we had lovely workshop with the participants trying to find out different ways to think about quality and testing in different parts of the DevOps infinity loop.
Dev Dives: Train smarter, not harder – active learning and UiPath LLMs for do...UiPathCommunity
💥 Speed, accuracy, and scaling – discover the superpowers of GenAI in action with UiPath Document Understanding and Communications Mining™:
See how to accelerate model training and optimize model performance with active learning
Learn about the latest enhancements to out-of-the-box document processing – with little to no training required
Get an exclusive demo of the new family of UiPath LLMs – GenAI models specialized for processing different types of documents and messages
This is a hands-on session specifically designed for automation developers and AI enthusiasts seeking to enhance their knowledge in leveraging the latest intelligent document processing capabilities offered by UiPath.
Speakers:
👨🏫 Andras Palfi, Senior Product Manager, UiPath
👩🏫 Lenka Dulovicova, Product Program Manager, UiPath
Slack (or Teams) Automation for Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Soluti...Jeffrey Haguewood
Sidekick Solutions uses Bonterra Impact Management (fka Social Solutions Apricot) and automation solutions to integrate data for business workflows.
We believe integration and automation are essential to user experience and the promise of efficient work through technology. Automation is the critical ingredient to realizing that full vision. We develop integration products and services for Bonterra Case Management software to support the deployment of automations for a variety of use cases.
This video focuses on the notifications, alerts, and approval requests using Slack for Bonterra Impact Management. The solutions covered in this webinar can also be deployed for Microsoft Teams.
Interested in deploying notification automations for Bonterra Impact Management? Contact us at sales@sidekicksolutionsllc.com to discuss next steps.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
The field of Information retrieval (IR) is currently undergoing a transformative shift, at least partly due to the emerging applications of generative AI to information access. In this talk, we will deliberate on the sociotechnical implications of generative AI for information access. We will argue that there is both a critical necessity and an exciting opportunity for the IR community to re-center our research agendas on societal needs while dismantling the artificial separation between the work on fairness, accountability, transparency, and ethics in IR and the rest of IR research. Instead of adopting a reactionary strategy of trying to mitigate potential social harms from emerging technologies, the community should aim to proactively set the research agenda for the kinds of systems we should build inspired by diverse explicitly stated sociotechnical imaginaries. The sociotechnical imaginaries that underpin the design and development of information access technologies needs to be explicitly articulated, and we need to develop theories of change in context of these diverse perspectives. Our guiding future imaginaries must be informed by other academic fields, such as democratic theory and critical theory, and should be co-developed with social science scholars, legal scholars, civil rights and social justice activists, and artists, among others.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
In this insightful webinar, Inflectra explores how artificial intelligence (AI) is transforming software development and testing. Discover how AI-powered tools are revolutionizing every stage of the software development lifecycle (SDLC), from design and prototyping to testing, deployment, and monitoring.
Learn about:
• The Future of Testing: How AI is shifting testing towards verification, analysis, and higher-level skills, while reducing repetitive tasks.
• Test Automation: How AI-powered test case generation, optimization, and self-healing tests are making testing more efficient and effective.
• Visual Testing: Explore the emerging capabilities of AI in visual testing and how it's set to revolutionize UI verification.
• Inflectra's AI Solutions: See demonstrations of Inflectra's cutting-edge AI tools like the ChatGPT plugin and Azure Open AI platform, designed to streamline your testing process.
Whether you're a developer, tester, or QA professional, this webinar will give you valuable insights into how AI is shaping the future of software delivery.
Builder.ai Founder Sachin Dev Duggal's Strategic Approach to Create an Innova...Ramesh Iyer
In today's fast-changing business world, Companies that adapt and embrace new ideas often need help to keep up with the competition. However, fostering a culture of innovation takes much work. It takes vision, leadership and willingness to take risks in the right proportion. Sachin Dev Duggal, co-founder of Builder.ai, has perfected the art of this balance, creating a company culture where creativity and growth are nurtured at each stage.
State of ICS and IoT Cyber Threat Landscape Report 2024 previewPrayukth K V
The IoT and OT threat landscape report has been prepared by the Threat Research Team at Sectrio using data from Sectrio, cyber threat intelligence farming facilities spread across over 85 cities around the world. In addition, Sectrio also runs AI-based advanced threat and payload engagement facilities that serve as sinks to attract and engage sophisticated threat actors, and newer malware including new variants and latent threats that are at an earlier stage of development.
The latest edition of the OT/ICS and IoT security Threat Landscape Report 2024 also covers:
State of global ICS asset and network exposure
Sectoral targets and attacks as well as the cost of ransom
Global APT activity, AI usage, actor and tactic profiles, and implications
Rise in volumes of AI-powered cyberattacks
Major cyber events in 2024
Malware and malicious payload trends
Cyberattack types and targets
Vulnerability exploit attempts on CVEs
Attacks on counties – USA
Expansion of bot farms – how, where, and why
In-depth analysis of the cyber threat landscape across North America, South America, Europe, APAC, and the Middle East
Why are attacks on smart factories rising?
Cyber risk predictions
Axis of attacks – Europe
Systemic attacks in the Middle East
Download the full report from here:
https://sectrio.com/resources/ot-threat-landscape-reports/sectrio-releases-ot-ics-and-iot-security-threat-landscape-report-2024/
LF Energy Webinar: Electrical Grid Modelling and Simulation Through PowSyBl -...DanBrown980551
Do you want to learn how to model and simulate an electrical network from scratch in under an hour?
Then welcome to this PowSyBl workshop, hosted by Rte, the French Transmission System Operator (TSO)!
During the webinar, you will discover the PowSyBl ecosystem as well as handle and study an electrical network through an interactive Python notebook.
PowSyBl is an open source project hosted by LF Energy, which offers a comprehensive set of features for electrical grid modelling and simulation. Among other advanced features, PowSyBl provides:
- A fully editable and extendable library for grid component modelling;
- Visualization tools to display your network;
- Grid simulation tools, such as power flows, security analyses (with or without remedial actions) and sensitivity analyses;
The framework is mostly written in Java, with a Python binding so that Python developers can access PowSyBl functionalities as well.
What you will learn during the webinar:
- For beginners: discover PowSyBl's functionalities through a quick general presentation and the notebook, without needing any expert coding skills;
- For advanced developers: master the skills to efficiently apply PowSyBl functionalities to your real-world scenarios.
Nearly 200 countries and about 2000 negotiators trying to build a framework.
Electricity supply projects account for an important share of the total expected supply of CERs by 2012.
Energy efficiency projects remain underrepresented.
Project reviewed detailed designs of schemes currently in operation, or that have reached an advanced stage of design.
Operating (with approximate emissions coverage):
EU ETS ( 2,000 MT)
Switzerland (3 MT)
New Zealand (approx 35MT)
Alberta (116 MT)
RGGI (Connecticut, Delaware, Maine, Maryland, Massachusetts, New Hampshire, New Jersey, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont) (162 MT)
GGAS NSW (7 MT)
Likely (with approximate emissions coverage):
NOTE THAT WE DELIBERATELY DON’T MAKE ASSESSMENT OF LIKELIHOOD IN PAPER – WE JUST LOOK AT DESIGN DETAILS. THIS SLIDE IS JUST TO GIVE YOU A “LAY OF THE LAND” TODAY.
WCI – California, New Mexico, British Columbia, Ontario, Quebec – over 1/3 of Canada’s emissions (500-1000 MT)
Korea (400MT)
Japan (1,000 MT)
Australia (500 MT)
China ( few hundred MT as trial ?)
Considering (with approximate emissions coverage):
USA (5,500 MT) and Canada (600MT)
Mexico
Chile
Brazil
Ukraine, Russia, Kazhakistan
Turkey