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Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud
Nature & Environment

Reducing the digital carbon footprint of the cloud

...Climate Change (IPCC) are not confident that these renewable energy projects will sufficiently outpace the growth in demand. Second, the operational energy use of digital technologies accounts for just 20% of the total life-time carbon footprint of the technology assets The manufacture, distribution and end-of-life disposal of IT equipment can add up to be much greater...
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Three weeks in June and one night in November
Society, Politics & Law

Three weeks in June and one night in November

...climate change. In both the UK and the US it is also might be appropriate to consider something as ill-defined as ‘the health of the nation’. In both countries, following these separate elections, there were dramatic increases in the number of racially or religiously aggravated crimes. Decades of progress that held tolerance and diversity as normative values appear to...
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Hybrid working: planning for the future
Money & Business

Hybrid working: planning for the future

...Climate Change Act 2008 (Legislation.gov.uk, n.d.b) and ‘Sustainability and climate change: a strategy for the education and children’s services systems’ (GOV.UK, 2022) Scotland – Climate Change (Emissions Reduction Targets) (Scotland) Act 2019 (Gov.SCOTLAND, n.d.) Northern Ireland – Northern Ireland Climate Change ......
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Lottery of birth
Health, Sports & Psychology

Lottery of birth

...climate change, we can still avoid the worst. But that requires that the richest as soon as possible find a way to set their use of resources and energy at a level that step by step can be shared by 10 billion or 11 billion by the end of this century. I've never called myself an optimist. But I do say I'm the possibilist. And I also say the world is much better than many...
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Level 1: Introductory 12 hrs
Organisations, environmental management and innovation
Nature & Environment

Organisations, environmental management and innovation

...climate change. The emphasis on environmental management in policy and practice, from global agreements to national policy through to local level planning, is – in the EU context at least – a change in the managing of human–environment relations. In this respect, environmental management as an idea represents an innovation in the possible governance arrangements for...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2
Society, Politics & Law

The Legacy of Nuclear Power, Part 2

...climate change. You know you’ve got a low carbon technology here. It would give – it was part of the necessary mix because you needed base load power. We've got to keep the lights on. We’ve got to save the planet. All those sorts of buzzwords were going around. And there was deeply embedded a nuclear lobby, which I think was powerful. The discourse was pro-nuclear....
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Transport and Sustainability
Science, Maths & Technology

Transport and Sustainability

...climate change and energy security are all major factors. 2 Transport’s environmental impacts NOx, particulate and CO2 emissions from transport in the UK. The large energy consumption and pollution emissions from the transport sector. 3 Is your journey really necessary? Moving to the most energy efficient and least polluting modes of transport. The hierarchy of modes of...
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Level 2: Intermediate 12 hrs
Fire ecology
Science, Maths & Technology

Fire ecology

...climate change and global warming on the intensity and frequency of fires...This course explores the role of fire as a natural disturbance in ecosystems. It introduces the concept of a fire regime and its influence on the type and distribution of organisms that occur in fire prone ecosystems. It also looks at some of the adaptations of plants that have evolved in these...
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Level 2: Intermediate 4 hrs