Can we use the capitalistic system to fight climate change? Social entrepreneur Ruth von Heusinger shows you how! By buying European CO2-emission rights, her start-up enables individuals to influence

Can we use the capitalistic system to fight climate change? Social entrepreneur Ruth von Heusinger shows you how! By buying European CO2-emission rights, her start-up enables individuals to influence the carbon emissions of the European economy, making it as easy as online shopping. Sounds too simple to be true? In her Talk, Ruth will explain the functions of the EU emission trading system and how your single action can indeed have an impact. Ruth, a graduate physicist, worked in the field of renewable energies and emissions trading at Statkraft and gained experience in the voluntary carbon market at atmosfair. However, she wanted to make it possible to offset carbon emissions with a direct effect in Europe. That’s why she founded the non-profit organisation ForTomorrow in December 2019. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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Network virtualization (a.k.a. network slicing) allows multiple logical networks to coexist on a single physical network while isolated from each other, i.e., without performance or security

Network virtualization (a.k.a. network slicing) allows multiple logical networks to coexist on a single physical network while isolated from each other, i.e., without performance or security interferences. It was first propounded as a diversifying attribute of the future inter-networking paradigm that can enable seamless integration of new features resulting in a more rapid evolution of the Internet architecture. Later, it was rolled out in data center networks to provide bandwidth guarantees to cloud applications. More recently, it has been incorporated as a pillar of 5G and beyond mobile communication networks to provide differentiated services with stringent bandwidth, latency and reliability requirements. However, despite a significant progress in virtualization research and technologies over the last two decades, the end-to-end deployment of virtual networks in practice remains unrealized. This talk provided an overview of the genesis and evolution of network virtualization, present key underlying challenges and solution ideas, and an outlook to end-to-end 5G and beyond network slicing. Speaker: Raouf Boutaba, University of Waterloo, Canada

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WRI’s Global Restoration Initiative and researchers from Land & Carbon Lab have partnered with Meta to develop a groundbreaking AI foundation model that we’ve used

WRI’s Global Restoration Initiative and researchers from Land & Carbon Lab have partnered with Meta to develop a groundbreaking AI foundation model that we’ve used to produce the world’s first global map of tree canopy height at a 1-meter resolution, allowing the detection of single trees at a global scale.

This new high-resolution data sets a baseline for remotely monitoring changes at the level of individual trees, making it a critical advancement for measuring land use emissions and tracking progress on conservation and restoration projects, which are essential for achieving the world’s goals for climate, nature and people. While this initial data set has limitations, it demonstrates the power of foundation models — a type of AI model that can serve as the “foundation� for a variety of tasks — to pave a new path toward AI-driven earth monitoring.

Find out more in our blog: https://www.landcarbonlab.org/news-updates/mapping-trees-unprecedented-detail-ai

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Most of us are indulged in our daily activities, too busy and occupied in trying to have a better lifestyle without concern for the detrimental impact being caused to our environment, particularly

Most of us are indulged in our daily activities, too busy and occupied in trying to have a better lifestyle without concern for the detrimental impact being caused to our environment, particularly through a plethora of deforestations and stubborn use of single-use plastic. Understanding the need of the hour, Mr. Ankit Tripathi, founded UNEAKO, an organization that supports our environment by offering not just bio-friendly and plastic alternate products, but products that are made from a variety of waste materials. He has been a source of inspiration for upcoming entrepreneurs and environmentalists alike and speaks about the importance of innovative solutions that promote sustainability being key to the future of co-existence. Driven by a firm passion to reduce the generation of garbage and elimination of plastic in huge piles of waste, which happens to be a serious imminent threat to our Planet, he talks about the ease with which something that is generally considered as waste can turn into a highly useful resource just by a tweak in our perception. This talk was given at a TEDx event using the TED conference format but independently organized by a local community. Learn more at https://www.ted.com/tedx

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