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How to fix the "bugs" in the net-zero code

Lucas Joppa · TED

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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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Institution
TED
Department
Countdown Summit
Speaker
Lucas Joppa
Year
2021
Level
For everyone
Language
English
Subjects
Computer science, Earth and environment
Source
TED
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