AI, Big Data, and the Environment – Part 2: Carbon in the Cloud
Cloud computing and training demands data and therefore energy.
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Technology
Project CLI-MED – Helping Marginalised Communities Combat Climate-Change Related Illnesses
A youth-led initiative aiming to better equip marginalized communities in combating, monitoring, and preventing climate change-related illnesses, particularly Neglected Tropical Diseases.
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Projects and Initiatives
Isabel Key on Nature-based Solutions and ‘Climate Science’
Nature-based solutions (NbS) are ways of working with nature to benefit both people and biodiversity. The Nature-based Solutions Initiative is a small, dedicated team synthesising scientific evidence on how to implement successful NbS.
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Projects and Initiatives
AI, Big Data, and the Environment – Part 1: Introduction
AIs aid to environmental action is mainly in decision making. Satellite imagery is particularly useful, and its value has found success in environmental services.
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Technology
Rural Innovation – A Story of Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO)
The Green Africa Youth Organization (GAYO) is dedicated to providing solutions to pressing environmental issues through research and developing businesses out of environmental challenges.
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Projects and Initiatives
Keira Kang: Climate Justice and the Challenge of Intersectionality
To better educate and empower youths, monthly podcasts and infographic videos on CPJ’s public-facing media platforms have platformed POC and emphasised the intersectional nature of public justice.
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Projects and Initiatives
Recovering from Coronavirus: Green Solutions for a Brighter Future
To recover from Corona governments should invest in public transport, cycling, walking plans, and green energy, focusing on new jobs in green sectors rather than propping up fossil fuels.
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Energy
Lessons from Coronavirus: Reducing Pollution
Decreases in pollution witnessed over the pandemic should inform economic recovery: personal, local, and global changes should be implemented.
Lessons from Coronavirus: Food Security, Environmental Preservation, and Reducing the Spread of Zoonotic Diseases
Changes are needed enabling safe access to necessary, hygienic food and resources if further outbreaks of zoonotic diseases are to be stopped. Conservation is also key.
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Food & Agriculture
Kyoto Emissions Trading
This is a system in which meeting targets and using the mechanisms involved gave you tradable carbon allowances; notoriously oversupplying credits in practice.
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International Policy