The document discusses various aspects of carbon trading and offsets, including:
1) Two types of carbon trading - exchange traded and over-the-counter. India has over 25% of approved CDM projects globally.
2) Criticisms of carbon trading include that some emission reductions are exaggerated, profits go to middlemen, and the system is too complex to monitor and control. A carbon tax may be a better approach.
3) The document outlines domestic challenges and opportunities for India in low carbon growth and carbon financing, and discusses some perspectives on the Copenhagen Accord.
The Case for a Green Resilient RecoveryNigel Topping
As the impact of COVID-19 continues to be felt, non state actors (NSA) including business leaders, investors, and local government leaders globally have (in alignment with the UNSG) been vocal in their support for a Green, Resilient Recovery (GRR) and the opportunity to “build back better” by accelerating the transition to a resilient, zero emissions future.
Many global academic and technical experts have published widely on core principles to underpin a successful recovery, and have outlined emerging evidence on the compelling economic case for GRR, alongside critical co-benefits in public health, decent jobs and enhanced resilience to climate change.
This document seeks to bring together in a single place an analysis published by key members of the NSA community on GRR, with four key objectives:
– Summarize and consolidate key insights, providing a centralised reference point for the broad base of published work to date
– Lay out the definitive economic and social case for GRR, and its implications to climate crisis, as it exists so far
– Highlight sector-specific asks for GRR in the areas of transport, power, buildings, heavy industry and nature
– Provide a view on the policy action and NSA proof points (evolving daily) that demonstrate ongoing commitment from NSA actors to GRR
This paper draws directly upon the exceptional body of work and perspectives to date published by leading organizations, initiatives and partners of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action, including:
• IMF
• ETC, MPP, WEF
• Smiths School of Economics
• WMB
• PRI
• VividEconomics
• ICP Hub
The situation is evolving at pace, and members of the NSA community are continuing to advance the GRR work and action agenda. In addition to supporting positive action on GRR by policymakers and NSA as part of our broader objectives, these members will:
– Continue to represent and provide a platform for the best thinking of the NSA community in advocating positive response to GRR from policymakers
– Investigate and publish a more detailed business case to reflect the benefits of GRR as an opportunity to accelerate climate action and the transition to a resilient, zero emissions future, to be published in September 2020.
The UN Climate Action Summit took place on the 23th of September in New York. What have the countries promised to do and what are the main takeaways? Read more in our blog!
It is noteworthy that currently, coal-based power projects are under threat due to lack of coal linkages and power purchase agreements, thus stalling many existing power projects and discouraging many companies from expanding to new coal power projects. This would give a boost to hydropower projects in many regions, especially in the Himalayan regions.
Centre for Financial Accountability aims to strengthen and improve financial accountability within India by engaging in critical analysis, monitoring and critique of the role of financial institutions – national and international, and their impact on development, human rights and the environment, amongst other areas.
For more information visit http://www.cenfa.org
Get in touch with us at info@cenfa.org
We also publish Finance Matters, a weekly newsletter on the development finance. The archive can be accessed at http://www.cenfa.org/newsletter-archive/
To subscribe, email us at newsletter@cenfa.org
The Case for a Green Resilient RecoveryNigel Topping
As the impact of COVID-19 continues to be felt, non state actors (NSA) including business leaders, investors, and local government leaders globally have (in alignment with the UNSG) been vocal in their support for a Green, Resilient Recovery (GRR) and the opportunity to “build back better” by accelerating the transition to a resilient, zero emissions future.
Many global academic and technical experts have published widely on core principles to underpin a successful recovery, and have outlined emerging evidence on the compelling economic case for GRR, alongside critical co-benefits in public health, decent jobs and enhanced resilience to climate change.
This document seeks to bring together in a single place an analysis published by key members of the NSA community on GRR, with four key objectives:
– Summarize and consolidate key insights, providing a centralised reference point for the broad base of published work to date
– Lay out the definitive economic and social case for GRR, and its implications to climate crisis, as it exists so far
– Highlight sector-specific asks for GRR in the areas of transport, power, buildings, heavy industry and nature
– Provide a view on the policy action and NSA proof points (evolving daily) that demonstrate ongoing commitment from NSA actors to GRR
This paper draws directly upon the exceptional body of work and perspectives to date published by leading organizations, initiatives and partners of the Marrakech Partnership for Global Climate Action, including:
• IMF
• ETC, MPP, WEF
• Smiths School of Economics
• WMB
• PRI
• VividEconomics
• ICP Hub
The situation is evolving at pace, and members of the NSA community are continuing to advance the GRR work and action agenda. In addition to supporting positive action on GRR by policymakers and NSA as part of our broader objectives, these members will:
– Continue to represent and provide a platform for the best thinking of the NSA community in advocating positive response to GRR from policymakers
– Investigate and publish a more detailed business case to reflect the benefits of GRR as an opportunity to accelerate climate action and the transition to a resilient, zero emissions future, to be published in September 2020.
The UN Climate Action Summit took place on the 23th of September in New York. What have the countries promised to do and what are the main takeaways? Read more in our blog!
It is noteworthy that currently, coal-based power projects are under threat due to lack of coal linkages and power purchase agreements, thus stalling many existing power projects and discouraging many companies from expanding to new coal power projects. This would give a boost to hydropower projects in many regions, especially in the Himalayan regions.
Centre for Financial Accountability aims to strengthen and improve financial accountability within India by engaging in critical analysis, monitoring and critique of the role of financial institutions – national and international, and their impact on development, human rights and the environment, amongst other areas.
For more information visit http://www.cenfa.org
Get in touch with us at info@cenfa.org
We also publish Finance Matters, a weekly newsletter on the development finance. The archive can be accessed at http://www.cenfa.org/newsletter-archive/
To subscribe, email us at newsletter@cenfa.org
ICE and Capita Symonds Health and Safety LectureCapitaSymonds
Assessment of Risk: How much is ‘suitable and sufficient’?
Jean Venables OBE FREng FICE
President, Institution of Civil Engineers
Crane Environmental
Wednesday 23 September 2009
The Institution of Civil Engineers
11 years after the Kyoto Protocol was signed—only
to be consigned to irrelevance over the subsequent decade—nations would negotiate post-2012 action.
The realities of climate change are clearer than ever,
and the cost of action is mounting. Rich countries,
historically responsible for climate change, are
proposing new mechanisms to share the burden.
Leading developing countries such as India and
China need to negotiate hard as well and make
a big push for renewables
Read more on
(http://cseindia.org/equitywatch.htm)
Centre for Science and Environment
www.cseindia.org/
Down To Earth
http://downtoearth.org.in/
The Copenhagen Agreement is a document that delegates at the 15th session of the Conference of Parties (COP 15) to the United Nations Framework Convention on Climate Change agreed to "take note of" at the final plenary on 18 December 2009.
The Accord, drafted by, on the one hand, the United States and on the other, in a united position as the BASIC countries (China, India, South Africa, and Brazil), is not legally binding and does not commit countries to agree to a binding successor to the Kyoto Protocol, whose round ended in 2012.
The 28th meeting of the Conference of Parties, i.e. COP28, came to a close on December 13, 2023. Spread across two weeks, COP28 saw national leaders, international organizations, businesses, and academics convene to address pressing global climate issues.
An brief introduction to carbon credits and also its history and its use. Also brief introduction to the concept of green finance what it is and also glimpse of its used in the field.
Financing the World's Forests: integrating markets and stakeholdersE Rivilla
Fourth speaker 'Options for REDD and reducing the financial gap' Jessica Brown (Overseas Development Institute)
3rd August 2009 - Imperial College (CEP)
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/
GDG Cloud Southlake #33: Boule & Rebala: Effective AppSec in SDLC using Deplo...James Anderson
Effective Application Security in Software Delivery lifecycle using Deployment Firewall and DBOM
The modern software delivery process (or the CI/CD process) includes many tools, distributed teams, open-source code, and cloud platforms. Constant focus on speed to release software to market, along with the traditional slow and manual security checks has caused gaps in continuous security as an important piece in the software supply chain. Today organizations feel more susceptible to external and internal cyber threats due to the vast attack surface in their applications supply chain and the lack of end-to-end governance and risk management.
The software team must secure its software delivery process to avoid vulnerability and security breaches. This needs to be achieved with existing tool chains and without extensive rework of the delivery processes. This talk will present strategies and techniques for providing visibility into the true risk of the existing vulnerabilities, preventing the introduction of security issues in the software, resolving vulnerabilities in production environments quickly, and capturing the deployment bill of materials (DBOM).
Speakers:
Bob Boule
Robert Boule is a technology enthusiast with PASSION for technology and making things work along with a knack for helping others understand how things work. He comes with around 20 years of solution engineering experience in application security, software continuous delivery, and SaaS platforms. He is known for his dynamic presentations in CI/CD and application security integrated in software delivery lifecycle.
Gopinath Rebala
Gopinath Rebala is the CTO of OpsMx, where he has overall responsibility for the machine learning and data processing architectures for Secure Software Delivery. Gopi also has a strong connection with our customers, leading design and architecture for strategic implementations. Gopi is a frequent speaker and well-known leader in continuous delivery and integrating security into software delivery.
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.
Accelerate your Kubernetes clusters with Varnish CachingThijs Feryn
A presentation about the usage and availability of Varnish on Kubernetes. This talk explores the capabilities of Varnish caching and shows how to use the Varnish Helm chart to deploy it to Kubernetes.
This presentation was delivered at K8SUG Singapore. See https://feryn.eu/presentations/accelerate-your-kubernetes-clusters-with-varnish-caching-k8sug-singapore-28-2024 for more details.
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
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.
The Art of the Pitch: WordPress Relationships and SalesLaura Byrne
Clients don’t know what they don’t 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 clients’ 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.
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/
JMeter webinar - integration with InfluxDB and GrafanaRTTS
Watch this recorded webinar about real-time monitoring of application performance. See how to integrate Apache JMeter, the open-source leader in performance testing, with InfluxDB, the open-source time-series database, and Grafana, the open-source analytics and visualization application.
In this webinar, we will review the benefits of leveraging InfluxDB and Grafana when executing load tests and demonstrate how these tools are used to visualize performance metrics.
Length: 30 minutes
Session Overview
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During this webinar, we will cover the following topics while demonstrating the integrations of JMeter, InfluxDB and Grafana:
- What out-of-the-box solutions are available for real-time monitoring JMeter tests?
- What are the benefits of integrating InfluxDB and Grafana into the load testing stack?
- Which features are provided by Grafana?
- Demonstration of InfluxDB and Grafana using a practice web application
To view the webinar recording, go to:
https://www.rttsweb.com/jmeter-integration-webinar
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.
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Editor's Notes
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdm
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Cdm
Literally, today you can earn carbon credits for doing virtually anything…even dreaming.
But that has bought us to another problem – how to do, when to do, who is to do…..
A lot of us believe that we are being fed with "NON-SENSE" in name of global warming. Also, do take a note of the year this cartoon was released – 2007. we will refer to this after couple of slides.
The findings associated with global warming have always been questioned. Remember the cartoon of 2007? This view has got a boost recently due to certain “re-statement” of facts.
One of the key “restatements” has been that of receding Himalayan glaciers. We won’t go in to details of this because we are sure you would have already read a lot about it. After all it was a mistake by IPCC – the organisation which is usually regarded as the final word on global warming and has even earned a Noble prize for its findings such as these.