Category: Climate Change
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The Ultimate Guide to Corporate Climate Action: The Science-Based Targets Initiative
In my latest episode of the Climate Confident podcast, I had the pleasure of interviewing Luiz Amaral, the CEO of the Science-Based Targets Initiative (SBTI). The SBTI is a global body that works to enable businesses to set ambitious emissions reductions targets that align with what climate science tells us is necessary. It’s a truly…
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Digital Supply Chain, Climate 21, and Climate Change – a chat with Toby Croucher
It is April 2020 and we are currently in the middle of the Covid-19 Coronavirus pandemic, however we will develop a vaccine for this virus, and so this crisis will finally pass. Unfortunately there is no similar “easy cure” for climate change. With that in mind, a huge amount of an organisation’s carbon footprint comes…
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Reducing your Costs and your Carbon Footprint – A Case Study
I am speaking at the it@cork Green IT breakfast event tomorrow morning (5th March ’08). My presentation is “Reducing your Costs and your Carbon Footprint – A Case Study” and I will be using CIX as a case study on how innovative thinking can lower your carbon footprint and your costs. The event kicks off…
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DLD Conference Highlights
I spent the early part of this week in Munich for the DLD Conference in Munich. It was an amazing experience. The conference itself is a free invite-only event. The speaker list is unbelievable. The speakers included politicians, business people and convicted criminals! Apart from the usual tech rock stars (Clay Shirky, Marissa Mayer, Matt…
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2007 was Earth's 2nd warmest year
According to NASA, 2007 was tied with 1998 as the second-warmest year in a century. According to the NASA Goddard Institute for Space Studies (GISS), the eight warmest years in the GISS record have all occurred since 1998, and the 14 warmest years in the record have all occurred since 1990. The article goes on…
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CO2 emissions vs income
I generated this graph on Prof Hans Rosling’s Gapminder.org site. The data shows, somewhat surprisingly that the increase in carbon emissions in countries like Ireland and the US from 1975 to 2002 are not in any way mirrored by any increases in China or India. In the recent Bali talks (and the Kyoto talks before…
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Off to Le Web3
I’m heading to the Le Web3 conference this week to deliver a talk on using technology (energy demand management) to reduce carbon footprints. This comes from our work in CIX on delivering a hyper energy-efficient data centre and my working with Synergy Module (an energy management startup). If you are going to the Le Web3…