Il World Energy Focus è il nuovo mensile online della WEC's community, una e-publication gratuita per essere sempre aggiornato sugli sviluppi del settore energetico. Il World Energy Focus contiene news, interviste esclusive e uno spazio dedicato agli eventi promossi dai singoli Comitati Nazionali.
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Sustainable development (SD) is a pattern of resource use, that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present but also for generations to come (sometimes taught as ELF -Environment, Local people, Future)
This presentation was given by David Dodman, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), as part of a webinar hosted by the International Science Council and UNRISD on 'Moving beyond exposure: Addressing climate-related risks in informal coastal settlements'.
Find out more: http://www.unrisd.org/coastal-cities-webinar
The impacts of climate change on the environment are already observable. Melting glaciers are resulting in accelerated sea level rise. We are experiencing longer and more intense heat waves and extreme weather conditions
Il World Energy Focus è il nuovo mensile online della WEC's community, una e-publication gratuita per essere sempre aggiornato sugli sviluppi del settore energetico. Il World Energy Focus contiene news, interviste esclusive e uno spazio dedicato agli eventi promossi dai singoli Comitati Nazionali.
Could we achieve goal 13 of the sdgs within the existing international econom...Md. Zahirul Islam
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Sustainable development (SD) is a pattern of resource use, that aims to meet human needs while preserving the environment so that these needs can be met not only in the present but also for generations to come (sometimes taught as ELF -Environment, Local people, Future)
This presentation was given by David Dodman, International Institute for Environment and Development (IIED), as part of a webinar hosted by the International Science Council and UNRISD on 'Moving beyond exposure: Addressing climate-related risks in informal coastal settlements'.
Find out more: http://www.unrisd.org/coastal-cities-webinar
The impacts of climate change on the environment are already observable. Melting glaciers are resulting in accelerated sea level rise. We are experiencing longer and more intense heat waves and extreme weather conditions
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A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through S...Andy Dabydeen
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The High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda today released âA New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development,â a report which sets out a universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty from the face of the earth by 2030, and deliver on the promise of sustainable development. The report calls upon the world to rally around a new Global Partnership that offers hope and a role to every person in the world.
The Panel was established by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and co-chaired by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron.
http://www.post2015hlp.org/the-report/
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Many people are constantly seeing videos of doom and gloom whe it comes to climate change. This presentation highlights key areas that are driving various governments to impose carbon tax/price for carbon. The problem is that carbon tax and/or price carbon do nothing for the environment as such are strictly a tax grab for votes.
The Road to Durban PowerPoint is a summary of the events and negotiations that have transpired since COP16 (Nov. 29-Dec. 10, 2010) and preparatory to COP17 (Nov. 28-Dec.9, 2011).
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Keynote Lecture #2 - 2021 ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme
"Climate Action: the need for a systemic approach", presented by Prof. Lauren Rickards (ECP Director, Urban Futures, RMIT University) at the 2021 ProSPER.Net Leadership Programme, 15 September, 2021.
A New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through S...Andy Dabydeen
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The High Level Panel on the Post-2015 Development Agenda today released âA New Global Partnership: Eradicate Poverty and Transform Economies through Sustainable Development,â a report which sets out a universal agenda to eradicate extreme poverty from the face of the earth by 2030, and deliver on the promise of sustainable development. The report calls upon the world to rally around a new Global Partnership that offers hope and a role to every person in the world.
The Panel was established by United Nations Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon and co-chaired by Indonesian President Susilo Bambang Yudhoyono, Liberian President Ellen Johnson Sirleaf and United Kingdom Prime Minister David Cameron.
http://www.post2015hlp.org/the-report/
Climate change - Man-Made or not - Study of CO2 and Greenhouse Gasespaul young cpa, cga
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Many people are constantly seeing videos of doom and gloom whe it comes to climate change. This presentation highlights key areas that are driving various governments to impose carbon tax/price for carbon. The problem is that carbon tax and/or price carbon do nothing for the environment as such are strictly a tax grab for votes.
The Road to Durban PowerPoint is a summary of the events and negotiations that have transpired since COP16 (Nov. 29-Dec. 10, 2010) and preparatory to COP17 (Nov. 28-Dec.9, 2011).
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Burning fossil fuels generates greenhouse gas emissions that act like a blanket wrapped around the Earth, trapping the sunâs heat and raising temperatures.
The main greenhouse gases that are causing climate change include carbon dioxide and methane. These come from using gasoline for driving a car or coal for heating a building, for example. Clearing land and cutting down forests can also release carbon dioxide. Agriculture, oil and gas operations are major sources of methane emissions. Energy, industry, transport, buildings, agriculture and land use are among the main sectors causing greenhouse gases.
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Think Again: Climate Treaties
David Shorr
Maayan Pearl
Foreign Policy. (205):38-43
The FP Group, 2014.
2014
Climate change
International agreements
Pollutant emissions
Copenhagen Accord
Treaties
Carbon dioxide emissions
Environmental treaties
Global climate models
Diplomacy
Climate change policy
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English
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Think Again: Climate TreatiesÂ
Why the glacial pace of climate diplomacy isn't ruining the planet "An Ironclad Treaty Is the Only
Way to Save the Planet."
DON'T COUNT ON IT.
Time is running short for the international community to tackle climate change.
Pressure to act comes from rising temperatures and sea levels, superstorms, brutal droughts, and
diminishing food crops. It also comes from fears that these problems are going to get worse. Modern
economies have already boosted the concentration of carbon dioxide (CO2) in the atmosphere by 40
percent since the Industrial Revolution. If the world stays on its current course, CO2 levels could double
by century's end, potentially raising global temperatures several more degrees. (The last time the
planet's CO2 levels were so high was 15 million years ago, when temperatures were 5 to 10 degrees
Fahrenheit higher than they are today.)
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Another source of pressure, however, is self-imposed. Under the auspices of the United Nations, the
next global climate treaty -- to be negotiated among some 200 countries, with the central goal of cutting
greenhouse gas emissions -- should be enacted in 2015, to replace the now-outmoded 1997 Kyoto
Protocol. (Once passed by state parties, the new treaty would actually go into effect in 2020.)
The race against both nature and the diplomatic clock is stressful. But in the rush to do something, the
international community -- most notably, and ironically, those individuals and organizations most fervent
about combating global warming -- is often doing the wrong thing. It has become fixated on the notion of
consensus codified in international law.
The U.N. process for climate diplomacy has been in place for more than two decades, punctuated since
1995 by annual meetings at which countries assess global progress in protecting the environment and
negotiate treaties and other agreements to keep the ball rolling. Kyoto was finalized at the third such
conference. A milestone, it established targets for country-based emissions cuts. Its signal failure,
however, was leaving the world's three largest emitters of greenhouse gases unconstrained, two of them
by design. Kyoto gave developing countries, including China and Ind ...
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February 1, 2019
Introduction
Over the years, climate change has been the biggest problem the facing the world today. One of the main causes of climate change is as a result of the effects of human activities. One of the aspects that are used to measure climate change is global warming. This phenomenon, which measures the rise in global temperature levels, has already begun. Since 1900; the global temperature has risen by 0.7 degrees Celsius (Mathez, 2009). It is very important that all governing bodies need to pull forces together in order to reduce the effects of climate change in the world. Comment by Dila Const: Vague statementâŚhow many years?
The establishment of The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) in 1988 was aimed at bringing together the worldâs leading experts on the earthâs climate change to gather, asses and disseminate scientific information about climate change with a view of informing international and national policy makers (Mathez, 2009). IPCC spearheaded conferences and treaties which were aimed at bettering the climate change situation. This paper will discuss the current status of the Kyoto Treaty and what should be done about the Kyoto Protocol and global warming in the future. Moreover, this paper will discuss recent climate change conferences and treaties and how the conferences and treaties are related to the Kyoto Treaty and the United States. Comment by Dila Const: Gases?
The Kyoto Protocol, 1997
The United Nations Conference on climate change took place in 1997. The United Nations took into consideration of global warming in Kyoto Japan (McGovern 2006). In the period between 2008 and 2012 The Giantsâ industrial nations had promised to reduce the use of greenhouse emission on gasses. (Archer, 2012). The conference was of great importance because it was the first agreement between countries on reducing the emission of greenhouse gases. This protocolâs main feature was mandatory targets on emissions, which ranged from -8 percent to +10 percent of the countriesâ individual 1990 emission levels (McGovern, 2006). The industrialized nations were in agreement to reduce the emission of the greenhouse effects by half. By the year 2012, the emission of the greenhouse gases were 5.2 percent on average. Comment by Dila Const: what does this mean?
The Kyoto Protocol was seen to be an effective way to reduce the menace of global warming. However, it was faced with problems during the process of fulfilling its mandate. For example, the United States of America, although they signed the agreement, they never ratified. Canada ratified the treaty in 2001 but set up a level that other countries were unable to achieve. The Canadian minister for environment said that Canada was applying its legal right to withdraw. The United States followed suit the same year and withdrew from the agreement. The end r.
Seeds of actions on Climate Change, Is it now Indiaâs moment? TERRE Policy Centre
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Secretary of State John Kerry will be in India this week and India should lend its support on priority for HFC phase down under the Montreal Protocol. Indian Prime Ministerâs visit to Washington DC later this year can seal the deal to demonstrate that three largest economies of the world working shoulder to shoulder to take action on climate change would be good omen and a strong signal.
DevOps and Testing slides at DASA ConnectKari Kakkonen
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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.
Connector Corner: Automate dynamic content and events by pushing a buttonDianaGray10
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Here is something new! In our next Connector Corner webinar, we will demonstrate how you can use a single workflow to:
Create a campaign using Mailchimp with merge tags/fields
Send an interactive Slack channel message (using buttons)
Have the message received by managers and peers along with a test email for review
But thereâs more:
In a second workflow supporting the same use case, youâll see:
Your campaign sent to target colleagues for approval
If the âApproveâ button is clicked, a Jira/Zendesk ticket is created for the marketing design team
Butâif the âRejectâ button is pushed, colleagues will be alerted via Slack message
Join us to learn more about this new, human-in-the-loop capability, brought to you by Integration Service connectors.
And...
Speakers:
Akshay Agnihotri, Product Manager
Charlie Greenberg, Host
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
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Keynote at DIGIT West Expo, Glasgow on 29 May 2024.
Cheryl Hung, ochery.com
Sr Director, Infrastructure Ecosystem, Arm.
The key trends across hardware, cloud and open-source; exploring how these areas are likely to mature and develop over the short and long-term, and then considering how organisations can position themselves to adapt and thrive.
Epistemic Interaction - tuning interfaces to provide information for AI supportAlan Dix
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Paper presented at SYNERGY workshop at AVI 2024, Genoa, Italy. 3rd June 2024
https://alandix.com/academic/papers/synergy2024-epistemic/
As machine learning integrates deeper into human-computer interactions, the concept of epistemic interaction emerges, aiming to refine these interactions to enhance system adaptability. This approach encourages minor, intentional adjustments in user behaviour to enrich the data available for system learning. This paper introduces epistemic interaction within the context of human-system communication, illustrating how deliberate interaction design can improve system understanding and adaptation. Through concrete examples, we demonstrate the potential of epistemic interaction to significantly advance human-computer interaction by leveraging intuitive human communication strategies to inform system design and functionality, offering a novel pathway for enriching user-system engagements.
Search and Society: Reimagining Information Access for Radical FuturesBhaskar Mitra
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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.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
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Clients donât know what they donât know. What web solutions are right for them? How does WordPress come into the picture? How do you make sure you understand scope and timeline? What do you do if sometime changes?
All these questions and more will be explored as we talk about matching clientsâ needs with what your agency offers without pulling teeth or pulling your hair out. Practical tips, and strategies for successful relationship building that leads to closing the deal.
Essentials of Automations: Optimizing FME Workflows with ParametersSafe Software
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Are you looking to streamline your workflows and boost your projectsâ efficiency? Do you find yourself searching for ways to add flexibility and control over your FME workflows? If so, youâre in the right place.
Join us for an insightful dive into the world of FME parameters, a critical element in optimizing workflow efficiency. This webinar marks the beginning of our three-part âEssentials of Automationâ series. This first webinar is designed to equip you with the knowledge and skills to utilize parameters effectively: enhancing the flexibility, maintainability, and user control of your FME projects.
Hereâs what youâll gain:
- Essentials of FME Parameters: Understand the pivotal role of parameters, including Reader/Writer, Transformer, User, and FME Flow categories. Discover how they are the key to unlocking automation and optimization within your workflows.
- Practical Applications in FME Form: Delve into key user parameter types including choice, connections, and file URLs. Allow users to control how a workflow runs, making your workflows more reusable. Learn to import values and deliver the best user experience for your workflows while enhancing accuracy.
- Optimization Strategies in FME Flow: Explore the creation and strategic deployment of parameters in FME Flow, including the use of deployment and geometry parameters, to maximize workflow efficiency.
- Pro Tips for Success: Gain insights on parameterizing connections and leveraging new features like Conditional Visibility for clarity and simplicity.
Weâll wrap up with a glimpse into future webinars, followed by a Q&A session to address your specific questions surrounding this topic.
Donât miss this opportunity to elevate your FME expertise and drive your projects to new heights of efficiency.
Software Delivery At the Speed of AI: Inflectra Invests In AI-Powered QualityInflectra
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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.
Let's dive deeper into the world of ODC! Ricardo Alves (OutSystems) will join us to tell all about the new Data Fabric. After that, Sezen de Bruijn (OutSystems) will get into the details on how to best design a sturdy architecture within ODC.
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⢠Waning Interest, Ambiguous Future: âAnotherâ UN Climate Change Conference at Durban
⢠Two years ago, when the world leaders assembled in Copenhagen for the 15th Conference of Parties (COP) meet, the media was in a tizzy. Every inch of celluloid and
newsprint zoomed in on the âbattleâ between the Developing Countries (primarily the BASIC countries, led by India) v/s the Developed ones (with Big Bad United
States at the helm). The Copenhagen Meet had a simple agenda: Charter and adopt an effective treaty to carry forward Kyoto Protocolâs legacy when its legal
obligations ended in 2012.
⢠Copenhagen was a failure. A huge one. The negotiations were disarrayed and the âCopenhagen Accordâ drafted by BASIC was âtaken note ofâ but not âpassedâ. The
document recognized that climate change is one of the greatest challenges of the present day and that actions should be taken to keep any temperature increases to
below 2°C. One part of the agreement pledges US$ 30 billion to the developing world over the next three years, rising to US$100 billion per year by 2020, to help
poor countries adapt to climate change. Accord also favors developed countriesâ paying developing countries to reduce emissions from deforestation and
degradation, known as âREDDâ. Though more than 130 countries have signed it later; in the absence of any legal bindings, it is just a piece of paper.
⢠I wrote a piece for YKA on the Copenhagen Summit prior to the Cancun Meet scheduled in Nov-Dec 2010. I ended it with âThe media, the NGOs and the youth
should gear up. November isnât far awayâ. Well,
⢠Analysis by experts worldwide put the blame on various factors: the Recession, Domestic pressure within countries like US and China, Developing Countries for
trying to protect their growth by not accepting emission cut commitments; and Developed countries â primarily US â too for the same reason! What a paradox!
⢠The one thing Copenhagen did garner was widespread dialogue and awareness. Citizens came out on the streets in large numbers. People religiously followed
âEarth Hourâ. But the 2010 Meet at Cancun was a blip on the radar. And except one or two snippets, I definitely donât see much on the Durban Meet which started on
28th November and will go on till 9th December â at least not in India. Most of my acquaintances (even the intellectual ones) arenât even aware of Durban. People
have bigger worries obviously â The rising dollar, the Lokpal tussle, the FDI War and, now, Kapil Sibal vs Facebook.
⢠So, what is the Durban Meet aiming for? To secure a global climate agreement as the Kyoto Protocolâs first commitment period (2008â2012) is about to end. But isnât
this what we aimed for in Copenhagen as well? Just a year before Kyoto expires, it is essential that this year we get a Kyoto-II or something close.
⢠Now, for some facts: Carbon dioxide emissions from burning fossil fuels have increased by half in the last 20 years according to new data. Last year,
emissions from burning fossil fuels rose by 5.9%, bringing the total rise since 1990, the baseline year for calculating emissions under the Kyoto protocol, to 49%, an
average rate of increase of about 3.1% a year.
⢠Prof Corinne Le QuÊrÊ, director of the Tyndall Centre for Climate Change Research at the University of East Anglia, and an author of the research, said the data
showed that little had been achieved in the past two decades in reducing the risks from climate change.
⢠âThere have been efforts to use more renewable energy and improve energy efficiency but what this shows is that so far, the effects have been marginal,â she said.
âWe need to do something about the 80% of energy that still comes from burning fossil fuels.â She said the problem was urgent, as the chances of holding global
temperature rises to less than 2C above pre-industrial levels (which scientists regard as the limit of safety) beyond which climate change becomes catastrophic and
irreversible, were dependent on emissions peaking by 2020 at the latest.
⢠Even the recession hasnât produced a dent in the greenhouse gas emissions as they are projected to continue rising at around 3% per year. The situation is precarious:
carbon emissions rocketing to unprecedented levels, alongside increases in joblessness, energy costs and income disparities. Julia Steinberger of the University of
Leeds says, âSurely the transition to a green economy has never seemed more appealing.â
⢠IPCC warned in November 2011 that extreme weather will strike as climate change takes hold. Heavier rainfall, storms and droughts can cost billions and destroy
lives. Estimates suggest that every dollar invested in adaptation to climate change could save $60 in damages.
⢠The prime focus in Durban also includes focusing on âfinalizing at least some of the Cancun Agreementsâ, reached at the 2010 Conference, such as âco-operation on
clean technologyâ, as well as âforest protection, adaptation to climate impacts, and finance â the promised transfer of funds from rich countries to poor in order to
help them protect forests, adapt to climate impacts, and âgreenâ their economiesâ.
⢠I did not write this post to discuss the intricacies of the Meet or the legal/strategic misalignments between the foreign policies of developed or developing countries. I
could write a separate article for that.
⢠I wrote this so that people would know. And people would read. Think. Maybe even participate in a dialogue. Walk a protest. Light a candle. Something. Something?
⢠Excerpts and sources: