WBCSD Sustain Magazine October 2009 - Energizing development in a changing cl...fveglio
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) recognizes the urgent need for companies to support development while spurring a move toward a global low-carbon economy, the economy of the future. The latest edition of its magazine Sustain highlights the important links between energy, climate and development. The magazine also includes several article and cases highlighting the role of business in creating economic opportunities through inclusive business initiatives.
WBCSD Sustain Magazine October 2009 - Energizing development in a changing cl...fveglio
The World Business Council for Sustainable Development (WBCSD) recognizes the urgent need for companies to support development while spurring a move toward a global low-carbon economy, the economy of the future. The latest edition of its magazine Sustain highlights the important links between energy, climate and development. The magazine also includes several article and cases highlighting the role of business in creating economic opportunities through inclusive business initiatives.
The Force for Good, a project of the F4G foundation, has been mobilising capital and solutions to address the greatest issues we’re facing & build a better, safer future. Since the world is interconnected all the more, anything happening at the far end of the planet could adversely affect the rest. What we set out to do today determines the possibility of a better future. More than ever, we, the collective us, are in great need to look deeply into sustainable finance.
ESG & Impact Investing: Navigating the EssentialsJedrick Theron
A report that will help readers navigate the world of ESG and Impact Investing. It will help readers with coming to an understanding of development finance institutions, the benefits of ESG in investing and company management and how best to implement ESG and impact investing into practice.
Cegos is heavily involved in philanthropic activities around the world, centred around education and learning. Using our resources and expertise, rather than just cash donation adds significant value. This paper explores some of the new trends, including the rise of small and medium sized organisations contributions in this area. At a time when parts of the world need help the most, it is good see so many organisations doing there bit....
CSR Collaboration Lab - Partnering on Best Case Practices, Procceding Beyond ...GlobalHunt Foundation
GlobalHunt Foundation has conducted such CSR Collaboration Hub among leading businesses and among diverse stakeholders. The outcome report is a compliation of the proceedings that took place in partnerships with Hindustan Power Projects Limited and the MoserBaer Trus. It encourages a match making platform wherein as a respective stakeholder receives an opportunity to review another’s ongoing or upcoming CSR initiatives and through mutual channels of communication. One of the highlighting aspects of the hub is to seek those areas of interventions that remain unexplored and require immediate attention. The hub are beyond the capacity of an event or a programme, but were conducted
in project series and received active engagement from diverse stakeholders. The main objective is to bring together business leaders, technology solution providers, civil society organizations, sustainability experts to form key collaborations and develop key projects which can be implemented within their respective zones. The other dimension of the hub was focused on imparting essential learnings to the personnel on the upcoming developments in the realm of sustainability and more so encourage an environment of sharing cross sector experiences, challenges and to align the principles of sustainable practices within their operational frameworks.
The Force for Good, a project of the F4G foundation, has been mobilising capital and solutions to address the greatest issues we’re facing & build a better, safer future. Since the world is interconnected all the more, anything happening at the far end of the planet could adversely affect the rest. What we set out to do today determines the possibility of a better future. More than ever, we, the collective us, are in great need to look deeply into sustainable finance.
ESG & Impact Investing: Navigating the EssentialsJedrick Theron
A report that will help readers navigate the world of ESG and Impact Investing. It will help readers with coming to an understanding of development finance institutions, the benefits of ESG in investing and company management and how best to implement ESG and impact investing into practice.
Cegos is heavily involved in philanthropic activities around the world, centred around education and learning. Using our resources and expertise, rather than just cash donation adds significant value. This paper explores some of the new trends, including the rise of small and medium sized organisations contributions in this area. At a time when parts of the world need help the most, it is good see so many organisations doing there bit....
CSR Collaboration Lab - Partnering on Best Case Practices, Procceding Beyond ...GlobalHunt Foundation
GlobalHunt Foundation has conducted such CSR Collaboration Hub among leading businesses and among diverse stakeholders. The outcome report is a compliation of the proceedings that took place in partnerships with Hindustan Power Projects Limited and the MoserBaer Trus. It encourages a match making platform wherein as a respective stakeholder receives an opportunity to review another’s ongoing or upcoming CSR initiatives and through mutual channels of communication. One of the highlighting aspects of the hub is to seek those areas of interventions that remain unexplored and require immediate attention. The hub are beyond the capacity of an event or a programme, but were conducted
in project series and received active engagement from diverse stakeholders. The main objective is to bring together business leaders, technology solution providers, civil society organizations, sustainability experts to form key collaborations and develop key projects which can be implemented within their respective zones. The other dimension of the hub was focused on imparting essential learnings to the personnel on the upcoming developments in the realm of sustainability and more so encourage an environment of sharing cross sector experiences, challenges and to align the principles of sustainable practices within their operational frameworks.
NAEE is Nigeria's Leading renewable energy event, Register today to be part of the great revolution 18 - 20 October 2017 in Abuja . visit nigeriaalternativeenergyexpo.org
Why access to modern Energy is a necessary condition for Human Development?
MATIKE NGONG ROLLIN
Chairman of Global actions for local development Organizations,
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT –
CLIMATE CHANGES AND NEW
TECHNOLOGIES
THE DUTY TO NURSE OUR PLANET IN
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT –
CLIMATE CHANGES AND NEW
TECHNOLOGIES
THE DUTY TO NURSE OUR PLANET IN
SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT –
CLIMATE CHANGES AND NEW
TECHNOLOGIES
THE DUTY TO NURSE OUR PLANET IN
Georges ILUNGA KAPONSOLA
Promoting Massive Renewable Energy (RE) Projects
towards achieving Sustainable Development in Nigeria
Taiwo Benjamin
Carleton University, Canada
Presented at #naee2015
ENZYMATIC HYDROLYSIS AND BIOETHANOL PRODUCTION FROM NEEM TREE LEAVES (AZADIRACHTA INDICA)
Yusuf Muhammad2, Hadi Bashar Abdullahi1*
Presented at #NAEE2015
KEYNOTE ADDRESS BY THE PRESIDENT AND COMMANDER IN CHIEF OF THE ARMED FORCES, FEDERAL REPUBLIC OF NIGERIA, PRESIDENT MUHAMMADU BUHARI, GCFR, REPRESENTED BY PERMANENT SECRETARY, FEDERAL MINISTRY OF POWER, AMB GODKNOWS IGALI, OON, FNAH, AT THE OPENING CEREMONY OF THE 5TH NIGERIA ALTERNATIVE ENERGY EXPO (NAEE 2015) 14TH - 16TH OCTOBER, 2015 AT SHEHU MUSA YAR'ADUA CENTRE, ABUJA
NATIONAL RENEWABLE ENERGY AND ENERGY
EFFICIENCY POLICY (NREEEP)
FOR THE ELECTRICITY SECTOR
Energy supply in Nigeria can be classified into two main categories, (a) urban and (b) rural.
Urban areas are essentially on the grid while rural areas are largely off the grid. Improved
energy supply to urban residents is being addressed mainly by the Roadmap for Power
Sector Reforms, which was launched by President Goodluck Ebele Jonathan, GCFR, in
August 2012. The roadmap essentially focuses on the development of grid-based
electricity. However, the on-going power sector reforms will only enable the extension of
the national grid to large rural areas which are close to main urban areas.
Rural areas that are remote and have a low demand density will have to depend on off-grid
energy solutions as the economies of on-grid deployment do not favour rural
electrification. Off-grid areas will have to depend on alternative solutions. The implication
of this strategy for improved energy supply across Nigeria will entail the utilization of
renewable energy sources at our disposal, both on-grid and off-grid. Consequently, it is
essential that a coordinated, coherent and comprehensive renewable energy policy (REP)
be put in place to drive hydropower, biomass, solar and wind as energy sources. In this
respect, like existing sources of electricity, renewable energy can become a source of
energy that may be traded and procured by the power industry as they would procure
fossil or non-renewable energy sources. It is intended that the renewable energy policy
advanced in this document will serve as a blue print for the sustainable development,
supply and utilization of renewable energy resources within the economy for both on-grid
and off-grid energy solutions.
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.
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.
Key Trends Shaping the Future of Infrastructure.pdfCheryl Hung
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
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.
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/
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.
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.
UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series, part 4DianaGray10
Welcome to UiPath Test Automation using UiPath Test Suite series part 4. In this session, we will cover Test Manager overview along with SAP heatmap.
The UiPath Test Manager overview with SAP heatmap webinar offers a concise yet comprehensive exploration of the role of a Test Manager within SAP environments, coupled with the utilization of heatmaps for effective testing strategies.
Participants will gain insights into the responsibilities, challenges, and best practices associated with test management in SAP projects. Additionally, the webinar delves into the significance of heatmaps as a visual aid for identifying testing priorities, areas of risk, and resource allocation within SAP landscapes. Through this session, attendees can expect to enhance their understanding of test management principles while learning practical approaches to optimize testing processes in SAP environments using heatmap visualization techniques
What will you get from this session?
1. Insights into SAP testing best practices
2. Heatmap utilization for testing
3. Optimization of testing processes
4. Demo
Topics covered:
Execution from the test manager
Orchestrator execution result
Defect reporting
SAP heatmap example with demo
Speaker:
Deepak Rai, Automation Practice Lead, Boundaryless Group and UiPath MVP
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
GraphRAG is All You need? LLM & Knowledge GraphGuy Korland
Guy Korland, CEO and Co-founder of FalkorDB, will review two articles on the integration of language models with knowledge graphs.
1. Unifying Large Language Models and Knowledge Graphs: A Roadmap.
https://arxiv.org/abs/2306.08302
2. Microsoft Research's GraphRAG paper and a review paper on various uses of knowledge graphs:
https://www.microsoft.com/en-us/research/blog/graphrag-unlocking-llm-discovery-on-narrative-private-data/
1. Time for
Transformational
Change
The Role of the GEF
Vision Statement of Dr. Naoko Ishii
GEF CEO and Chairperson
V i s i o n S tat e m e n t o f D r . N a o k o I s h i i 1
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3. Bolder and more imaginative
solutions are required to meet
the challenges facing the
global environment.
As the new CEO and Chairperson of the
Global Environment Facility, I am offering you
this vision statement as a compass to guide
the GEF partnership on a course towards
greater impact. And through the coming
years, I will engage with stakeholders about
how to strengthen the key strategic themes
that I consider essential for the success
of the GEF.
V i s i o n S tat e m e n t o f D r . N a o k o I s h i i 1
4. Goals
for the Global Environment
The coming decade presents challenges unprecedented natural capital is incorporated in the way decisions are
in the history of humankind. We have already reached or made and progress is measured; 3) all key actors – from
exceeded the carrying capacity of several of the earth’s local communities to national governments, the private
ecosystems. The next ten years will likely see another 700 sector, civil society organizations, and indigenous
million people added to the world population, more than peoples – recognize the part they must play in finding and
one billion additional middle-class consumers, and 50 implementing solutions; 4) international environmental
percent growth in economic output. Under such pressures, treaties are effective, fair and able to meet their agreed
incremental environmental strategies alone will simply not goals and targets; and 5) resources are adequately
suffice. These changes compel the GEF to equip itself to mobilized and deployed towards programs that reflect the
promote transformational change. We must align ourselves lessons learned from successes and failures. These must
with a vision for a future world in which: 1) citizens be our goals.
recognize the fundamental links between environment and
development, and governments embed natural resource
constraints into their decision-making; 2) the value of
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5. Vision
for the GEF
The GEF is uniquely positioned to support the stewardship legitimacy by serving the key multilateral environmental
of the global environmental commons. Over the past conventions. This foundation provides the GEF with
20 years, the GEF has accumulated an invaluable body unparalleled influence and capacity to take a leadership
of experience and knowledge, strengthened its culture role in finding and implementing bold solutions to global
of promoting innovation, enhanced and grown its environmental challenges. Specifically, the GEF can play the
network of agencies, and continued enjoying political following roles.
V i s i o n S tat e m e n t o f D r . N a o k o I s h i i 3
6. The GEF is and must remain a The GEF is and must remain
champion of the Global Commons an innovator
Our core message is that there can be no separation The GEF was born with a mission to support innovation,
between development and environment, as they are and must remain a strong promoter of innovation for global
co-dependent. Healthy ecosystems are essential to secure environmental benefits. It must use its resources and
human health, food, energy and water, and ultimately network to introduce innovation in the design of programs
sustainable development. It is startling, however, that such and policies in a manner that encourages early adoption
ideas have yet to be fully mainstreamed and that their and scaling up. To be credible, the GEF must always
adoption continues to be hampered by tough barriers in operate from a position of technical excellence
the political decision-making process. This is where the and world-class experience. It is vital that the GEF
GEF comes in as a champion of the global commons. The be strengthened to rise to the forefront of knowledge
tragedy of the commons was plaguing the Danube River management pertaining to the stewardship of
Basin for 150 years before the GEF stepped in to reverse the global environmental goods.
serious environmental havoc stretching through 2,780
kilometers and 19 countries, many of which belonged to
the former Soviet bloc. It took 15 years of a multi-faceted
program to turn the Danube into a model of integrated
river basin management. Most significantly, it created
a common platform, and helped bring political stability
to a region beset by prevailing distrust. I will ensure that
the GEF fully utilizes its convening power to bring key
players on board and create the context within which good
decisions can be made to confront destructive trends, and
to promote lasting change based on mutual trust.
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7. The GEF is and must remain The GEF is and must
the partner of choice for remain a catalyst in the
environmental benefits evolving architecture of
environmental finance
The GEF’s success will depend on its ability to forge
productive, trusting and catalytic partnerships with its
In order to bring transformational change to the global
member countries, the private sector, civil society, the
environment, the public and private sectors must identify
scientific community, and its agencies. The Agencies
new ways of working together. The GEF can be a catalyst
have been providing a steady stream of innovative ideas.
by buying out the risk that enterprises face when operating
Recipient governments have increased their political
in new and innovative markets such as carbon. The GEF
commitment, and seen their capacity considerably
can help industries start sourcing increasing shares of their
strengthened. But there remains much scope for
commodities from certified producers. One such project
improvement. We must ensure that transaction costs
has doubled the certified supply of cocoa available for the
within the GEF network do not reach a point where the
food and chocolate industries while providing significant
GEF is no longer an attractive option. It is time for recipient
financial returns to local community producers. Through
countries to demand that partners maximize the value
increasing engagement with the private sector, the GEF
of their engagement, explore synergies, and promote
can support innovative approaches and play a catalyst
the generation of multiple benefits. The GEF will support
role in environmental finance. In particular, climate finance
their endeavor.
architecture is evolving rapidly as the Green Climate
Fund is established. The international community needs
a seamless menu of options for identifying relevant
technologies, testing and proving them, and scaling
up with large-scale investments. Within this range of
options, the GEF can play an instrumental role in the initial
stage of technology transfer. The GEF needs to work to
attract potential new partners capable of adding value to
recipient countries.
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8. Principles
in Action
To earn the trust required to maintain a leadership role Collective leadership and
in the protection of the global environment, the GEF
must adhere to principles designed to build confidence
effective communication
and achieve results. Accordingly, I commit myself to
For the GEF to play a leadership role in bringing
leading the GEF under a set of principles with these
transformational change, it is essential that it
objectives in mind.
continuously and effectively communicate its vision,
strategy and work. We must strengthen existing coalitions
between the GEF’s network of partners, and cement
trust with the Multilateral Environmental Conventions
that the GEF serves. Strong partnerships are essential for
leveraging finance and developing ideas, but must always
be justified by their impacts on the ground.
Promoting country ownership
I strongly believe that country ownership is a key to
success, and I will further promote and improve
country-led programs to ensure that the GEF helps
embed environmental challenges at the core of
development plans, explores synergies, and brings
successes up to scale. We must ensure that lessons
are learned and shared among countries.
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9. Resolute focus on A lean and efficient
achieving results organization
The GEF should be known for its deeply entrenched An effective organization and a clear understanding of its
results-oriented culture. Important initiatives are already objectives are essential to meet the needs of all member
under way. Now we must step up efforts to convince countries. I will keep the GEF Secretariat lean and efficient.
parties that investing in the GEF provides the best value We need to strengthen our Results-Based Management
for the money when it comes to protecting the global Framework and Knowledge Management Initiative as
commons. Together with the GEF Council, I will assess the GEF continues to scale up and sustain impacts from
more closely the results and impacts of the GEF in projects and programs.
achieving global environmental benefits.
V i s i o n S tat e m e n t o f D r . N a o k o I s h i i 7
10. GEF 2020
and Beyond
I believe the GEF is uniquely positioned to catalyze the all the more important for the GEF to lay out a clear path
transformational change necessary to help turn around forward, both in the upcoming GEF6 replenishment and for
the worrisome trends in the global environment. However, 2020 and beyond. To position the GEF to play its unique
the protection of the global commons, which is the role in this challenging context, I have initiated a process to
GEF’s primary mandate, is not always a critical priority in develop a long-term strategy for the GEF. My hope is that
international politics. Further, the proliferation of funds is the GEF 2020 Strategy will be inspirational and present
complicating the international financial landscape. The a coherent framework for how the GEF can support our
fiscal pressures confronting developed countries will remain member countries and partners achieve the common goal
for the foreseeable future. While the GEF has produced of a sustainable planet.
satisfactory results in the past, those pressures make it
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11.
12. www.theGEF.org
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