scholarly journals Identifying Carbon Footprint Emitted by Geodetic Engineers in San Ildefonso Bulacan When Conducting Survey Activities

2021 ◽  
Vol 06 (05) ◽  
Author(s):  
Florencondia, Noel T. ◽  
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Ground Improvement ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Main Challenge ◽  
A Company

Because of increasing concern about climate change and carbon emissions as a primary contributor, many companies and organizations are pursuing “carbon footprint” projects to estimate their contributions to global climate change. Calculating the carbon footprint is fundamental to understand how a company or organization’s activities impact global sustainability. The main challenge is how to calculate it when environmental aspects are intangible assets. This study aims to identify the frequency of carbon footprint emitted by geodetic engineers from San Ildefonso, Bulacan when they are conducting site surveying activities. Thus, this study provides a comprehensive review if GE’s from San Ildefonso, Bulacan are high contributors of emitted carbon using statistical data, a review of ground improvement methods that have been studied to reduce the carbon footprint, and the direction in which geodetic engineering should proceed in the future.

scholarly journals Global CO2 Emission-Related Geotechnical Engineering Hazards and the Mission for Sustainable Geotechnical Engineering

Energies ◽  
2019 ◽  
Vol 12 (13) ◽  
pp. 2567 ◽  
Author(s):  
Chang ◽  
Lee ◽  
Cho
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Global Warming ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Co2 Emission ◽  
Statistical Data ◽  
Ground Improvement ◽  
Geotechnical Engineering ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Climate Events

Global warming and climate change caused by greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions have rapidly increased the occurrence of abnormal climate events, and both the scale and frequency of geotechnical engineering hazards (GEHs) accordingly. In response, geotechnical engineers have a responsibility to provide countermeasures to mitigate GEHs through various ground improvement techniques. Thus, this study provides a comprehensive review of the possible correlation between GHG emissions and GEHs using statistical data, a review of ground improvement methods that have been studied to reduce the carbon footprint of geotechnical engineering, and a discussion of the direction in which geotechnical engineering should proceed in the future.

Envisaged transfer projects: New technologies in the water sustainability

2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Naseer Ahmed Abbasi ◽  
Xiangzhou Xu
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Ecosystem Services ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Water Scarcity ◽  
New Technologies ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Water Shortage ◽  
Environmental Aspects ◽  
Water Shortages ◽  
The World

<p><strong>Abstracts:</strong> Influenced by global climate change, water shortages and other extreme weather, water scarcity in the world is an alarming sign. This article provides evidences regarding the Tunnel and Tianhe project’s feasibility and their technical, financial, political, socioeconomic and environmental aspects. Such as how to utilize the water vapour in the air and to build a 1000 km long tunnel project to fulfill the goal of solving water shortage in China. The projects are promising to solve the problem of water, food and drought in the country. In addition, the telecoupling framework helps to effectively understand and manage ecosystem services, as well as the different challenges associated with them. Such efforts can help find the ways for proper utilization of water resources and means of regulation.</p><p><strong>Key words: </strong>Sustainability; water shortage; transfer project</p>

scholarly journals A Look at Global Climate Change Through Papal Encyclicals

2017 ◽  
Vol 24 (1) ◽  
pp. 53-65
Author(s):  
Małgorzata Gutry-Korycka
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Global Environmental Change ◽  
Anthropogenic Activity ◽  
Comprehensive Review ◽  
Global Environmental ◽  
The Relationship

Abstract The aim of this article is a comprehensive review of Papal Encyclicals in the context of global environmental and climatic change, against the backdrop of the activity of multinational institutions. The Encyclicals look to the future in teaching the faithful, in a manner which indicates that they are part of a goal-oriented policy, both in terms of scientific research, and concrete economic, social, and geopolitical activity. Attention has also been paid to the relationship between the activity of humankind, and global environmental change, particularly of the biotic and climatic variety. If this aggressive anthropogenic activity cannot be deemed responsible for initiating global warming, it may certainly be seen to have “encouraged” it. The impulses behind sustainable development, as well as the instruments of its implementation, and the inspiration behind the idea, have also been discussed. The achievement of this goal, necessitating the balancing of anthropological aspirations and the long-term security of the environment are also referenced in the Encyclicals.

scholarly journals The AI gambit: leveraging artificial intelligence to combat climate change—opportunities, challenges, and recommendations

AI & Society ◽  
2021 ◽  
Author(s):  
Josh Cowls ◽  
Andreas Tsamados ◽  
Mariarosaria Taddeo ◽  
Luciano Floridi
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Winning Strategy ◽  
Ghg Emissions ◽  
Training Data ◽  
The European Union ◽  
Ethical Challenges

AbstractIn this article, we analyse the role that artificial intelligence (AI) could play, and is playing, to combat global climate change. We identify two crucial opportunities that AI offers in this domain: it can help improve and expand current understanding of climate change, and it can contribute to combatting the climate crisis effectively. However, the development of AI also raises two sets of problems when considering climate change: the possible exacerbation of social and ethical challenges already associated with AI, and the contribution to climate change of the greenhouse gases emitted by training data and computation-intensive AI systems. We assess the carbon footprint of AI research, and the factors that influence AI’s greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions in this domain. We find that the carbon footprint of AI research may be significant and highlight the need for more evidence concerning the trade-off between the GHG emissions generated by AI research and the energy and resource efficiency gains that AI can offer. In light of our analysis, we argue that leveraging the opportunities offered by AI for global climate change whilst limiting its risks is a gambit which requires responsive, evidence-based, and effective governance to become a winning strategy. We conclude by identifying the European Union as being especially well-placed to play a leading role in this policy response and provide 13 recommendations that are designed to identify and harness the opportunities of AI for combatting climate change, while reducing its impact on the environment.

Posthumanist Responsibility

2018 ◽  
pp. 82-95
Author(s):  
David Wood
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
The Other ◽  
The Face ◽  
Collective Agent

The issue of responsibility in connection with global climate change is especially challenging. “I didn’t melt that glacier.” And yet, very likely “we” did, even though there is no collective “we” that acted. The more we know about the excessively large typical Western carbon footprint, the more easily we each can feel guilty— bout travel, our lifestyle, our food, and so on. This experience cuts through the lack of a collective agent through some such idea as participation. Fundamental questions about responsibility are pursued, in the face of doubts about the agent-as-subject, from posthumanists, new materialists, Heidegger, Derrida, feminists, deep ecologists, and others. The landscape of such responsibilities as we may suppose we have is sketched out, arguing that we need both traditional accounts of responsibility that can charge CEOs with culpable negligence, as well as a deeper sense of response-ability, involving imagination, and a multi-faceted openness to the Other.

THE REALITY OF A CARBON FOOTPRINT IN GLOBAL CLIMATE CHANGE

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (3) ◽  
pp. 328-335
Author(s):  
Viktor EFIMOV
Keyword(s):  
Climate Change ◽  
Carbon Dioxide ◽  
Carbon Footprint ◽  
Global Climate Change ◽  
Industrial Production ◽  
Global Climate ◽  
Carbon Dioxide Concentration ◽  
Paris Agreement ◽  
Margin Of Error ◽  
Earth’S Climate

The article calls into question the theory of the global greenhouse effect escalation attributable to the increase in the concentration of CO2 in the atmosphere due to human activity, as well as the very ability of industry to influence the Earth’s climate. The author finds dubitable the very approach to understanding greenhouse gases and their impact on the climate reflected in the Paris Agreement. Analysis of authoritative opinions of the world’s leading climate scientists leads to the conclusion that the increase in global temperatures due to industrial production, given a doubling of carbon dioxide concentration in the atmosphere, would constitute about 0,02 degrees. This is lower than the margin of error in modern global temperature measurements.

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