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IEEE Young Professionals Take On Climate Change

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Developing technology to address the causes of climate change, mitigate its impact, and adapt to the crisis is one of IEEE’s top priorities. To assist with that effort, the IEEE Young Professionals group this year launched its Climate and Sustainability Task Force. On 12 September, CSTF and IRENA presented a Youth Day event.

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Elon Musk jokes about his “unrequited love” towards Bernie Sanders

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Despite Musk and Sanders essentially agreeing on a number of key issues , such as the importance of addressing climate change, the US Senator has made it a point to heavily criticize the CEO for his growing net worth and his taxes. Take the idea of Universal Basic Income, which was proposed by former presidential candidate Andrew Yang.

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Hundreds of Resources Highlighted During IEEE Education Week

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From preuniversity STEM programs and university offerings to continuing professional education courses and tutorials, IEEE Education Week highlights the many ways to engage with education across the enterprise. Discovering 3D Printing Through the Casmile E-Learning Platform , presented by the IEEE Circuits and Systems Society.

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Study suggests global impact of obesity may be extra ~700MT/y CO2eq: about 1.6% of worldwide GHG emissions

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Meeting the needs of the increasing number of people on the planet presents a challenge for reducing total GHG burden. A further challenge may be the size of the average person on the planet and the increasing number of people with excess body weight. Swinburn wrote a commentary on the paper.

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Europe/US team: transitioning to a low-carbon world will create new rivalries, winners and losers

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In their commentary, Andreas Goldthau (Royal Holloway University of London), Kirsten Westphal (German Institute for International and Security Affairs (SWP)), Morgan Bazilian (Colorado School of Mines) & Michael Bradshaw (University of Warwick) present four geopolitical scenarios to illustrate how varied the transition could be by 2030.

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Education Week Spotlights Programs for Students and Professionals

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Webinars Climate Change: IEEE’s Role in Bringing Technology Solutions to Meet the Challenge 3 April, noon to 1 p.m. Applying Multimedia Learning Principles in Your Online Module/Presentation to Enhance Comprehension 5 April, 11 to 11:45 a.m. Here are some of the events and resources available during this year’s Education Week.

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C40 Cities: urban consumption-based emissions must be cut by 50% by 2030, 66% for high-income areas; buildings, food, transport, clothing, electronics, appliances, aviation

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C World , was produced in partnership with Arup and the University of Leeds, and cautions that urban consumption-based emissions must be cut by at least 50% by 2030 in order to maintain the possibility of keeping global temperature rise below 1.5°C. C40 is a network of the world’s megacities committed to addressing climate change.

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