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Alo Japan

alojapan.com/1229431/hokkaido- Hokkaido more plugged in to renewable energy than rest of Japan #ClimateChange #emissions #energy #Hokkaido #HokkaidoTopics #renewables #solar #wind #北海道 Hokkaido had over 40% of its electricity generated by renewable energy sources in fiscal 2023, nearly twice the national average and already above the maximum share that the central government is looking to achieve by 2030. With use of renewables — especially wind power — expected to grow fu…

Hokkaido more plugged in to renewable energy than rest of Japan
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Ethical Revolution

Developing Ethical Ratings for AI

[Read on Ethical Revolution]

Ethical Consumer Research Association (ECRA) have announced that they may develop a rating standard for artificial intelligence (AI) use by businesses.

Factors including energy consumption, human rights, accountability mechanisms and workers’ rights would all be up for examination.

Ruairidh Fraser at Ethical Consumer magazine has written a piece about the rapid growth of AI and the groups trying to keep pace in setting the ethical boundaries around the technology.

He says that the following areas of consensus are emerging around the ethics of AI:

  • Safeguarding users from AI-driven surveillance and data misuse via transparent algorithms, public accountability mechanisms, and legally binding regulatory frameworks.
  • The importance of sustainability: in both reducing its energy footprint and in ensuring AI can be harnessed to support genuine emissions reductions.
  • Addressing biases that currently reinforce inequality, via research and regulation that can reflect global perspectives.
  • Somehow placing people over profit in order to not exacerbate human rights violations, accelerate climate breakdown, widen global economic disparities, or ultimately allow AI to generate further injustice rather than benefit for humanity.

@aral @axbom

[Via Ethical Revolution]

Ethical Revolution · Developing Ethical Ratings for AI - Ethical Revolution
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Bytes Europe

Energy Abundance Alone Won’t Fix the Climate byteseu.com/864667/ #Climate #emissions #Energy #Policy #UnitedStates

Bytes Europe · Energy Abundance Alone Won't Fix the ClimateEnergy abundance isn’t a climate strategy. While cheap, plentiful energy may boost infrastructure and economic growth, it risks worsening climate change, repeating past policy mistakes, and further weakening global cooperation on climate action. In a country embroiled in partisan conflict, the goal of “energy abundance”—prioritizing cheap and plentiful domestic energy—is a rare issue receiving support across the ideological spectrum. Abundance sits on best-seller lists and was a key theme of the energy industry’s flagship conference in Houston earlier this month. It is the common ground that Secretary of Energy Chris Wright found with Democratic senators at his confirmation hearing. Bipartisan support for an abundance agenda can
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CelloMom On Cars

"Rather than being a sustainable, low-carbon and efficient use of #biomass, increasing biomass energy capacity at pulp mills throughout the #EU is resulting in more and more wood being extracted from forests and plantations. This means more carbon #emissions, not less, and it is contributing to the alarming rate at which the EU’s forest carbon sink is disappearing."

thecanary.co/global/world-anal

Canary · The EU is burning the planet thanks to its burning of wood for biomass fuelThe EU is burning the planet thanks to its burning of wood for biomass fuel from Canary on 24 March 2025
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MediaFaro Analysis

Renewables stepped up to meet a surge in energy demand from rising temperatures in 2024.

Intense heatwaves boosted demand for cooling in many countries, adding to rising consumption from industry, the electrification of transport, and the growth of data centres and AI, the International Energy Agency’s latest report reveals.

Despite some climate-related setbacks, the decoupling of emissions from economic growth is one promising trend.

mediafaro.org/article/20250324

#Energy#Renewables#Emissions
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O=C=O

Buying carbon credits to fight climate change? Here’s what to know

#CarbonCredits sold on the voluntary market are under scrutiny for not offsetting #Greenhouse#Gas emissions as claimed.

One investigation concluded that over 90 percent of carbon credits issued for #rainforest protection by the largest carbon credit certification body “had no benefit to the climate.” Two reports published in 2023 found that credits for forest-based projects in North America, South America, Africa and Asia may in fact #increase net #emissions. 

sciencenews.org/article/carbon

Science News · Buying carbon credits to fight climate change? Here’s what to knowCarbon credits sold on the voluntary market are under scrutiny for not offsetting greenhouse gas emissions as claimed.
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