Shi Jie (SJ) F.’s Post

Last month, Grove Climate Group put together a "think piece" for our clients on #SustainableAI and potential public policy solutions at the federal, state, and local levels to minimize risk. We offer ideas from chip production to data center construction to grid infrastructure, and beyond. Special thanks to Barrett Dollar, Miranda Miller, and Eric Fins for their help in researching, analyzing, and writing on such a big topic. The policy and economic landscape will surely continue to evolve. Stakeholders in this space would do well to both see the big picture and specific, tailored policy solutions.

Earlier today, President Biden signed an Executive Order to accelerate the speed of AI infrastructure in the U.S, launching a new wave of AI advancement and securing our country’s national security.   AI could either become our greatest ally in the fight to tackle the climate crisis, or an immense burden on the many challenges already complicating the fight - from the critical materials needed to produce next generation chips powering the AI revolution to our fragile electric grid infrastructure. We put this piece together in an effort to comprehensively look at the impact of #SustainableAI across jurisdictions and policy challenges. Thanks to Barrett Dollar and Miranda Miller for their thorough research, analysis, and writing on this. – w/ Clinton Britt

*How the Far right Frames Climate Change* [Have not posted this here yet.] If your research touches on political communication, framing, climate communication, digital network, and/or the far right, please consider giving our latest (open access) paper a read... It outlines how far right parties are picking up frames from their digital networks. I'm particularly proud of our mixed methods approach and think this could be applied and replicated in various other contexts. Code is freely available! https://lnkd.in/e_YuN5Kt

How can the planetary boundaries framework be applied to businesses? Downscaling the global framework to the scale of a company and assess its whole value chain’s impact on all nine boundary processes is, to say the least, a complicated endeavor. Lack of specific and reliable data is still a problem. But even though it is difficult to come up with exact numbers, it is better to be ‘generally right’ than ‘precisely wrong,’ I argue in this piece from Suston Magazine: https://lnkd.in/gHzKJaKY

Question - will the CSRD help us address all these nine boundaries? Where in the economy is there the greatest need to implement a framework like the one described below - where other frameworks can't reach? Fredrik Moberg any thoughts?

What will the 2024 US election be remembered for in 50 years? Like the last Trump presidency, the coming one will also end in 4 years. A lot can happen in 4 years, but my big-picture question is not about that but about the longer term trajectory. Will the history books (or, by then, some neural learning module) mark this as a fundamental US shift towards authoritarianism and away from the rule of law? As accelerating a trajectory towards isolationism and breaking of long-term alliances in foreign relations? As a shift of xenophobic and reactionary politics into official national policy? Take your pick (or add your own, especially if you're more optimistic). I fear, however, that it's the question of the world's trajectory on issues of climate change that will be remembered. With Trump's election, the world's hope of attaining the targets of the Paris Accords is virtually nil. As someone who has been involved in advising less-developed States on this issue, I see the terrors being unleashed across the world by a human-changed climate, from habitat destruction on a massive and irreversible scale to unimaginable human suffering and economic damage from natural disasters. Of all the reasons to be sad and angry, for me this is the big one. https://lnkd.in/eE-V6phT

Geospatial finance, a transformative approach, integrates geospatial data into financial theory and practice, offering a powerful tool to address modern environmental and sustainability challenges. At its core is the use of satellite imagery, a key instrument in accurately mapping and monitoring the Earth's resources, ecosystems, and climate. Such imagery can provide valuable data and insights into the environmental impact of investment activities, assisting investors in identifying potential risks and opportunities, and tracking the effectiveness of sustainable finance initiatives over time. Read full Chapter Abstract here: https://lnkd.in/ekUcXUpT

The ‘first 100 days’ is an opportunity for any new government to demonstrate their priorities and, in retrospect, what they have achieved… We’re now over halfway through, and there’s a significant gap between what the new government has proposed and what still needs to happen. Before the election, leading voices from SGR shared what needs to change if we are to avert the worst impacts of climate change, balance the risks and rewards of innovation in AI, and ensure international peace and security. https://lnkd.in/eST_4bN9

Gunnar Schade calls me a troll, rebuts my assertions with Google vomit that doesn't actually rebut my assertions (or even make a cogent argument), then blocks me from replying or Linking Into his fragile fantasy world. This is, in fact, the face of modern environmentalism. Here's Gunnar's "solution" to AGW using VRE. "Assuming a Battery" is the preferred option. Garbage. https://lnkd.in/gpVZTZ6u "Solar has an incredibly promising long-term potential because sunlight is plentiful and widespread. Future advances in both battery and PV technologies should continue to drive the adoption of this technology, even without policy interventions. The financial benefits of rapid utility-scale PV adoption will also be considerable, and these can help jump-start adoption. There are significant investment costs associated with accelerated adoption, but this is an opportunity to generate wealth and economic growth because the return on investment is also substantial. The accelerated installation of new utility-scale PV capacity will not be without challenges, however, as traditional electricity markets and grids are in many cases not primed for a high penetration of intermittent, renewable energy. There will be economic, policy, and social hurdles to overcome on the pathway set out in our scenarios, and some of these will require significant changes to the way we buy, sell, and even use electricity. But given the immense climate and financial impacts of global utility-scale PV adoption, it is imperative that we take on these challenges."

AI-powered climate tech solutions are gaining appeal, receiving 14.6% of total climate tech investment in the first three quarters of 2024. Investors believe AI’s capabilities in data analysis, predictive modelling and optimisation can power breakthrough applications in both emissions reduction and climate resilience. Find out more in PwC's State of Climate Tech 2024 report - https://pwc.to/4iaYzLA #StateOfClimateTech #climatetech