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How To Fix The “Bugs” In The Net-Zero Code | Lucas Joppa | TED Countdown

Lucas Joppa, Microsoft’s first chief environmental officer, thinks about climate change through the lens of coding, and he says the world’s current net-zero approach simply won’t compute. So how do we create a system that actually accounts for all the world’s carbon emissions — and helps us get to zero (as in zero additional carbon…

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Lucas Joppa, Microsoft’s first chief environmental officer, thinks about climate change through the lens of coding, and he says the world’s current net-zero approach simply won’t compute. So how do we create a system that actually accounts for all the world’s carbon emissions — and helps us get to zero (as in zero additional carbon added to the atmosphere by 2050)? Joppa shares three “bugs” in our current net-zero code, a four-point plan for fixing them – and how logic can help us change the current course of climate change.

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  1. Недвижимость в Дубае / Ислам Шангареев

    March 20, 2022 at 3:05 pm

    Let’s go. Поехали.

  2. bitcoin mining

    March 20, 2022 at 3:34 pm

    EMP…cured

  3. 📚Mehran Hashmi:Motivational Speaker📖

    March 20, 2022 at 3:38 pm

    🙂 *these are some most important and precious advices every one should read* 💜🙂

    *1.* _Take risks in your life. If you win, you can lead; if you lose, you can guide._

    *2.* _People are not what they say but what they do; so judge them not from their words but from their actions._

    *3.* _When someone hurts you, don’t feel bad because it’s a law of nature that the tree that bears the sweetest fruits gets maximum number of stones._

    *4.* _Take whatever you can from your life because when life starts taking from you, it takes even your last breath._

    *5.* _In this world, people will always throw stones on the path of your success. It depends on what you make from them – a wall or a bridge._

    *6.* _Challenges make life interesting; overcoming them make life meaningful._

    *7.* _There is no joy in victory without running the risk of defeat._

    *8.* _A path without obstacles leads nowhere._

    *9.* _Past is a nice place to visit but certainly not a good place to stay._

    *10.* _You can’t have a better tomorrow if you are thinking about yesterday all the time._

    *11.* _If what you did yesterday still looks big to you, then you haven’t done much today._

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    *17.* _What you fail to learn might teach you a lesson._

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    • Soul Streams 333

      March 20, 2022 at 7:13 pm

      🙏🏻

    • Isreal Isreal

      March 20, 2022 at 9:38 pm

      Well Said.

  4. The Internaut

    March 20, 2022 at 3:41 pm

    No corporate shills on ted pls

    • Melanie Merck

      March 20, 2022 at 4:57 pm

      sobald sie global-totalitäre ambitionen offenlegen ist es schon wissenswert für die öffentlichkeit. wie wollen demokratien mit firmen umgehen, die sich so stark in das leben einzelner und der volkswirtschaften einmischen?!

  5. ManFallsOffLog

    March 20, 2022 at 3:49 pm

    sounds like this plan will work as well as Windows 3.1

  6. Ligia Sommers

    March 20, 2022 at 4:02 pm

    👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻👏🏻🙏🏻✨

  7. Rudra

    March 20, 2022 at 4:21 pm

    I’m still trying to work out how coding causes high carbon..

  8. DocSiders

    March 20, 2022 at 4:21 pm

    Soil Regenerative Agriculture CAN remove twice as much CO2 as we’ve emitted….while eliminating fertilizer costs and pollution, increasing water retention in fields by 20 times and COOLS CROPLANDS by 6 – 10°C, and increasing yields after several years.

    But Net Zero isn’t about the Climate…it’s all about control of Fossil Fuels ONLY IN THE WEST… to impoverish the Western Economies. Just look at Biden’s irrational actions…US Oil is BAD….Saudi and Iran and Venezuelan Oli is OK. Idiots on the left are the only ones fooled by this (but they already hate the West… every bad thing occurring is what THE LEFT CAUSED since Biden was given the election by Big Social Media with illegal contributions back-door).

  9. namesurename

    March 20, 2022 at 4:31 pm

    Algaerhytmic abstraction

  10. Melanie Merck

    March 20, 2022 at 4:53 pm

    gehört so ein programm nicht in die hände der un?!

  11. Gaasuba Meskhenet

    March 20, 2022 at 5:00 pm

    End over production! Let the people and the planet rest! No more evictions from primary residences!!

  12. wgolyoko

    March 20, 2022 at 5:09 pm

    Wow, I love corporate propaganda, totally what I subscribed for. Bye

  13. Peak Party

    March 20, 2022 at 5:11 pm

    Microsoft software stinks of bugs. Throw away the lens, and take on real debugging at Microsoft.

  14. Mário Nunes

    March 20, 2022 at 5:41 pm

    So this was a repetitive 10min video with no real solutions, yes net-zero means net-zero and we need to reach it.
    Also I would say companies should aim beyond net-zero, because of all the others who won’t meet the target

    • freggo

      March 21, 2022 at 1:29 am

      typical Micro$oft. Bloated code . . . bloated speech.

  15. Michael Stewart

    March 20, 2022 at 6:07 pm

    Cool, write some code so your OS will not function until all computers have a carbon capture device installed using the pc cooling fan as the supply fan. Making the carbon capture module will be the challenge.

  16. Vinicius Da Cruz

    March 20, 2022 at 6:07 pm

    👏👏👏👏👏👏

  17. WatchMeFail

    March 20, 2022 at 6:19 pm

    Yes let’s use an example putting the blame onto the individual. “Clearly this won’t scale globally” translation “corporations don’t want to do this”

  18. Mundo Digital

    March 20, 2022 at 7:06 pm

    I really enjoyed this lecture, they did it very whell!

  19. MCHL GDDRD

    March 20, 2022 at 7:16 pm

    I entered XPrize – my model was to measure avoided Co2. It was so effective (because it utilises millions of users daily) that it was kicked out of the competition because they wanted CO2 sequestration and mine was measuring avoidance. If there’re companies serious about innovating through this tricky time – let’s do this – the solution needs money and support.

  20. Tom Nook

    March 20, 2022 at 7:46 pm

    Cloud servers aren’t just about carbon output…. They require lots of water for cooling as well. As in depleting lakes lots

    • Dextozz

      March 20, 2022 at 10:19 pm

      They can reuse water though? It’s not like anyone will drink it

  21. CMDR After Hours

    March 20, 2022 at 8:32 pm

    No one cares, how about doing a presentation on nasa receiving 62 million dollars a day and how we know now that what they claim is literally impossible. That’s peoples tax money they didn’t vote on nasa getting it so what’s up with that?

  22. Garry Johnson

    March 20, 2022 at 9:35 pm

    What rubish. Absoultly no evidence in his talk. He just talked absolut fantasy stuff.

  23. Lisa Love Ministry

    March 20, 2022 at 10:42 pm

    Jesus is the code that fix’s the world.
    John 3:16💝

    • Mitchell Kreigler

      March 21, 2022 at 1:02 am

      Bs…..Bs…..bs…..jesus will not fix anything.. period

    • freggo

      March 21, 2022 at 1:31 am

      Jesus could not ‘fix’ the Ukraine…never mind the world.

  24. robobrain10000

    March 20, 2022 at 11:52 pm

    Why are likes and dislikes disabled?

  25. THEE CRAZY MEXICAN

    March 21, 2022 at 12:31 am

    😂😂😂 That’s stupid, we need carbon for trees and plants “FOOD” to grow. Plus America’s emissions is the best in the world, CHINA & India are the worst countries that produce carbon/POLLUTION!!!!!

  26. Earl Gray

    March 21, 2022 at 3:55 am

    Here’s another example of the “There’s an App for that” mentality plaguing modern society. Some problems require actual commitment from people. This is just another effort to solve hard problems with low cost effort from people.

  27. Timothy Whitehead

    March 21, 2022 at 6:26 am

    The ‘bug’ is in the whole concept of trading carbon emission responsibility rather than taking actual responsibility for your behavior, and much more importantly changing government policies. The moment you let people buy guilt free cards, they will do so and happily cheat the system to do so. If you really care about global warming it is really very very simple. Renewables are now cheaper than fossil fuels for most power applications and in most parts of the world. They will replace fossil fuels for purely economic reasons. What we need is policies that allow that transition to go faster. eg remove subsidies from fossil fuels. Secondly, we need to be more efficient with our energy use which is actually economically beneficial in the long term but is often not done because the way we do business allow short term profit to beat long term gains. So for example a builder will not add insulation because it costs him more, even though it will save the eventual building owner a significant amount over time. We need to learn to fix that either by policies or by the way we pay for buildings, taking into account savings from better building practices. And finally we need to change farming so that it results in higher soil carbon content. Again, this benefits the farmers in the long term but they don’t do it now because of short term profits. Its easier to burn rain forest than to change your practices on the land you have already destroyed by poor farming practices. Any company that really wants to take responsibility should look at the bigger picture and lobby government for policy changes, not just try to buy their way out of things. As for direct carbon capture from the air, there is nothing more stupid than that.

  28. 야꼬

    March 21, 2022 at 9:57 am

    Watching this video, I realize that we should reduce carbon. No evastion of reponsibility.

  29. 야꼬

    March 21, 2022 at 10:04 am

    If everyone doesn’t work together, stituation is only get worse. We should reduce carbon that pass on offspring.

  30. george so___s

    March 21, 2022 at 10:21 am

    A bug….
    We should squash you like one…

  31. mintheman7

    March 22, 2022 at 8:25 am

    Oh yeah, let’s trust MS to fix the bugs, LOL. Forget net zero, just release some SW that don’t suck MS

  32. Priyanka Garai

    March 22, 2022 at 10:32 am

    Cosmos=quantum potential (Dirac)! Life=molecular one(Dawkins)! Consciousness=memetic one (Dennet)!

  33. Obaidy Al Jareh

    March 23, 2022 at 5:31 am

    You are so amazing thank you

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