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Nili Gilbert: The crucial intersection of climate and capital | TED Countdown

The financial sector often talks of decarbonizing investment portfolios as a way to fight climate change. But portfolios can be “cleaned” without having any real impact on the problem, says investment expert Nili Gilbert. Bringing science to finance, she unpacks how investors can actually help decarbonize the world — a costly endeavor, estimated at three…

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The financial sector often talks of decarbonizing investment portfolios as a way to fight climate change. But portfolios can be “cleaned” without having any real impact on the problem, says investment expert Nili Gilbert. Bringing science to finance, she unpacks how investors can actually help decarbonize the world — a costly endeavor, estimated at three to five trillion dollars per year between now and 2050 — and ensure the climate transition is just, global and interconnected. “Changing the markets can be a way to change the world,” she says.

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    February 8, 2022 at 4:01 pm

    ????If you are depressed , you are living in the past .????
    ???? If you are anxious , you are living in the future???? .
    ????If you are at peace , you are living in the present.????
    Love From a Self-development Youtuber????????.

  2. MZ ZH

    February 8, 2022 at 4:01 pm

    first

  3. gamer t65

    February 8, 2022 at 4:03 pm

    Great

  4. sevgi

    February 8, 2022 at 4:03 pm

    ????????????????

  5. Aman Aman

    February 8, 2022 at 4:04 pm

    “Sometimes people don’t want to hear the truth because they don’t want there illusions to be destroyed”- Friedrich Nietzsche.

  6. Olga Kovtun

    February 8, 2022 at 4:06 pm

    Co2 is not our biggest enemy, climate change is as it is a 12000 year cycle and we are it! I watched the conference in December Global Crisis. Time for The truth. Co2 is a great biz model for a few but is not where our gocis needs to be to save human lives. We need a system change from profit driven to life-saving.

  7. Jesse Torres

    February 8, 2022 at 4:08 pm

    I once saw this political cartoon where there was a map of the United States of America. In the image, all of the landlocked states were in red with one big word bubble that said “climate change is a myth.” Meanwhile, all of the coastal/southern border states were blue with multiple word bubbles that said “we beg to differ” since those landlocked states don’t experience the impacts of climate change that the coastal states do. Also, you’d figure that more Conservative Evangelicals would actually care about climate change and it’s impacts on society. Keep in mind, The Bible does say that the Earth is God’s gift to man, and it’s our duty to take care of it and everyone and everything on it. But, even if they found a way around this, you’d figure that they would at least want to prevent millions of migrants from countries that are no longer habitable from wanting to come to America in the future. Finally, even if you don’t support The Green New Deal because you don’t believe in climate change (or are paid not to), why wouldn’t you at least support it because it would promote new jobs here in the United States?
    And I’ll end with a joke:
    Ben Shapiro: If you believe you’re in an area that’s gonna be flooded from climate change then just sell your house and move.
    Responder: Just 1 small problem: Sell our houses to who, Ben?! Aquaman?!

  8. Save Money Save the Planet

    February 8, 2022 at 4:10 pm

    I’m open with what she’s preaching but it’s not always practical. The average American has most of their investment money in their 401k. So we’re beholden to what options our company decides to make available to us.

    So we’ll need to jump on ANY opportunity our company provides which allows us to not invest in fossil fuels. And ideally we can petition our companies to do more research on a proper ETF like she describes.

    Besides that, the $1k a year that I throw into decarbonization companies is just peanuts!

  9. seasong

    February 8, 2022 at 4:37 pm

    We definitely need to start investing in Chile and Congo to improve mining conditions for the battery industry. People only think about TSLA and other EVs, but there are lot of parts going into a car that need to be green as well.

  10. Harvey the paragliding chaser

    February 8, 2022 at 4:38 pm

    You might be on to something

  11. Albert Bandura

    February 8, 2022 at 5:44 pm

    You have nailed it but the greedy investors do not really want to hear the truth. They would rather wipe out the universe and have their pockets lined with colour, than think about the future.

  12. Pikunat

    February 8, 2022 at 6:06 pm

    We need veganism where able to and we need land back.

  13. Make Racists Afraid Again

    February 8, 2022 at 6:17 pm

    Anthropogenic Global Warming is real and an existential threat to human life on the Earth.
    Almost nobody cares more about the future than what they can get right now.
    I appreciate your efforts. We should all be doing what we can in case I’m wrong and it’s not already too late.

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Building beyond LLMs with Luma AI’s Amit Jain (Live at Web Summit Qatar) | Equity Podcast

LLMs may have kicked off this AI boom, but the ceiling is closer than the hype suggests. As models run out of text data to train on, the companies and investors paying attention are already moving on. The next wave isn’t better chatbots; it’s machines that can understand the physical world. Luma AI, the Bay…

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LLMs may have kicked off this AI boom, but the ceiling is closer than the hype suggests. As models run out of text data to train on, the companies and investors paying attention are already moving on. The next wave isn’t better chatbots; it’s machines that can understand the physical world. Luma AI, the Bay Area lab that raised over $1.4 billion from a16z, Nvidia, and Amazon, is betting on exactly that.

On episode of TechCrunch’s Equity podcast, we’re bringing you a conversation Rebecca Bellan sat down with Amit Jain, co-founder and CEO of Luma AI, at Web Summit Qatar. Together, the pair dug into where the next trillion-dollar AI opportunity actually gets built, and whether the companies chasing it even know what they’re building yet.

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01:13 Why LLMs are hitting a ceiling

02:43 The data problem & what comes after LLMs

04:30 What actually makes a world model a world model

06:05 Why 3D data is a dead end

07:39 What Luma is building next

09:08 How much humans stay in the loop

10:00 Near-term use cases for agentic video

11:22 Will AI kill jobs in film & production?

13:30 Why the entertainment industry is already dying

15:27 Why we actually need more content, not less

17:46 Luma’s roadmap: generation, understanding, and robotics

19:54 Outro

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iPhone in Space! Plus 5 MORE Apple Products That Went to Space | One More Thing

The iPhone has been to space a few times now — in fact, Apple products have a long history of space travel. CNET’s Bridget Carey looks back at notable moments, including the Macintosh Portable sending the first email in space. Read more about it on CNET.com Artemis II Astronauts Are Using iPhones to Capture Stunning…

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