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23 October 2023 |
Keynote 1.1: Sensing and Automation Technologies in Smart Buildings for a Sustainable Climate Internet of Things (IoT) deployments offer a much higher value proposition if these can function in the context of smart buildings. Such advanced information and communication technology (ICT) applications in commercial buildings, schools, libraries, shopping centers, etc. offer low cost but highly effective monitoring and control opportunities. Sensors deployed in key locations can monitor the building environment in real-time, collect information for intelligent decision making, and facilitate various services. An IoT sensor platform has been developed that provides a unified communication platform which can integrate information from disparate sources and provide one control hierarchy. It is a powerful, low-cost, open-architecture software platform that can monitor and control major electrical loads (e.g., HVAC, lighting and plug loads), as well as solar PV systems, energy storage units and other IoT sensors in commercial buildings. This platform leverages machine learning algorithms to draw insights from a deployed building’s historical operating data and occupant preferences to save energy (kWh) while increasing occupant comfort. Such energy savings contribute to climate sustainability through the reduction of carbon emissions. |
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Panel 1.1: What IEEE Is Doing About Climate Change This panel of four IEEE leaders will discuss how IEEE’s use of technology to achieve goals related to addressing the challenges posed by adaptation to and mitigation of climate change. Tom Coughlin (IEEE CEO Elect) will be the moderator, and Saifur Rahman (IEEE CEO), John Verboncoeur (TAB VP), Wei-Jen Lee (TAB Committee on Climate Change), and Maike Luiken (Carbovate Development Corp & Western University) will bring their unique backgrounds to the discussion. |
Thomas Coughlin; Saifur Rahman, John Verboncoeur; Wei-Jen Lee; Maike Luiken |
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Plans for the Next Four Days |
Charles Jackson; Zhong Haiwang |
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Keynote 1.2: Mitigating Livestock’s Climate Footprint: How Can Electronics Help? Livestock production faces a twofold challenge: is not only greatly affected by the effects of climate change, which can change the historical conditions and thus drastically reduce efficiency, but also a major driver in the generation of anthropogenic Greenhouse Gas (GHG) emissions, accounting for more than 10% of total emissions. In this presentation, the application of electronics solutions are analyzed, first to mitigate the influence of climate change on production systems, and secondly their pivotal role in curbing overall emissions. Some already existing solutions will be presented as well as possible applications and trends in the near future. |
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Keynote 1.3: The IEEE INGR Drives Carbon Footprints & Enables a Sustainable Future Sustainability is something we see getting increased attention these days and hopefully for motivation to drive actionable solutions toward more energy-efficient systems and reducing carbon footprints as opposed to simply paying lip service to the need to be more “green” or even mere carbon neutrality (a.k.a. – net zero). Most analyses of system energy consumption, whether it be systems physically constrained to a box or even widely distributed across geographies, tends to focus on the first-order energy footprint typically associated with the application lifetime, which is very closely related to the operational expenditures (OPEX) of the use case. Being green from an energy perspective is now becoming green economically, which is helping to drive massive investment and the switch to a net-zero mentality toward macro energy utilization. This keynote will first provide some terminology, metrics, and general assessment philosophies for defining the true energy footprint of a design and what aspects must be taken into account to fully and comprehensively articulate the complete embodied energy of a system from cradle to grave based on the most recent work of the IEEE International Network Generations Roadmap (INGR) Energy Efficiency Working Group. |
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Keynote 1.4: Accelerating Climate Action through Science and Policy Partnerships The world is not on pace to meet both energy decarbonization targets by mid-century, nor Sustainable Development Goal targets in 2030. This exposes the world to economically, socially, and ecologically crippling climate change damages that can be avoided, at least in part. Significant disagreements between the world’s largest energy consumers and carbon emitters are real, and problematic, and difficult to resolve. However, if the US and China do not put words into action to demonstrate that the “G2 of energy and pollution” can’t collaborate we put everyone worldwide at great risk. In fact, the US and China need each other to meet their stated climate goals, for stationary power, clean transportation, and in the hard to decarbonize heavy industrial sectors. We examine opportunities in off-shore wind energy, Hydrogen as an energy carrier, industrial energy, urban transformation, and in energy for economic development where a US-China energy partnership can advance the global decarbonization process. |
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Closing: Recap and Plans for Tomorrow |
Charles Jackson; Zhong Haiwang |
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24 October 2023 |
Keynote 2.0: Wildfire Smoke Impact on Solar PV Systems and Power Grid Stability: Insights from Recent Research In the backdrop of escalating global wildfire incidents, wildfire smoke has emerged as a significant societal challenge, impacting both human health and power grid operations. A noteworthy repercussion has been its adverse effect on solar PV systems which are increasingly being integrated into power grids worldwide. As smoke plumes from wildfires reduce the incident solar radiation, there is a marked decrease in the power output from these systems, posing considerable threats to the stability and reliability of power grids. This webinar will delve into the quantification and estimation of wildfire smoke’s impact on power grids, primarily focusing on its effects on solar PV system performance. Our recent research has paved the way to comprehend this intriguing interaction, which will be the crux of the discussion. We aim to shed light on the complex interplay between wildfires, smoke, and renewable energy production, enabling stakeholders to make informed decisions and develop resilience strategies. Join us as we unpack these findings, fostering a comprehensive understanding of this pressing issue and its implications for sustainable power production and grid stability in the face of rising wildfire occurrences. This keynote is in collaboration with the IEEE Technical Community for Climate Change. Access session on-demand |
Long Zhao |
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25 October 2023 |
Keynote 2.1: Participating in IEEE Climate Change Mitigation and Adaption Activities In the 2018 Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) Report, the 1.5oC goal would require the world to reach net zero emissions by 2050. COP26 concluded with nearly 200 countries agreeing to the Glasgow Climate Pact, which aims to limit the global temperature rise to 1.5oC and finalize the outstanding elements of the Paris Agreement. This will have a revolutionized impact on the entire society! |
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Keynote 2.2: Impact of Climate Change on Terrestrial Ecosystems: A Remote Sensing Perspective Climate change through global warming and sea level rise has adverse effects on the terrestrial ecosystem. In this decade, extreme events such as floods, droughts, and wildfires have increased drastically. Remote sensing has emerged as an invaluable tool in understanding and addressing these changes. Remote sensing-based satellite images can monitor and provide critical information in near-real time of extreme events. Some key drivers, such as precipitation, sea level rise, soil moisture, vegetation health, vegetation moisture content, and vegetation dry matter content, are crucial to monitoring and mitigating agricultural drought, flood, and forest fires. These key drivers can be easily estimated using remote sensing data sets and can be used to mitigate extreme events in real time. |
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Panel 2.1: Food Security The world is facing an important challenge, how to ensure food security for the whole population in a sustainable way. Nowadays, agriculture and land change usage contribute 30% of emissions, so just increasing the productivity is not enough. The panelists will present their views on this topic and a session of Q&A will be open just after that. |
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Keynote 2.3: Power System Transition: A Carbon Perspective China has set up the country’s carbon peak and carbon neutrality goals. Power system transition from fossil-energy-dominated to a low-carbon clean energy system is essential. This brings severe challenges for China’s power sector. This presentation plans to discuss the theory and method of low-carbon power systems from the perspective of carbon emission. From the view of carbon metering and tracing, based on the IPCC principles of measurable, reportable and verifiable, this presentation will discuss the carbon metering and tracing methods for power systems with the consideration of full carbon emission links and the spatial-temporal correlations of carbon flow. From the view of carbon planning and trajectory, the presentation will discuss the low carbon transition pathway of power system considering the source-grid-demand-storage coordination and the drive of carbon emission constraint. From the view of carbon reduction and optimizing, the presentation will discuss the carbon reduction benefit and coordination of different low-carbon electrical techniques. From the view of carbon market and trading, this presentation will discuss the correlation and coordination of electricity market and carbon market. |
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Keynote 2.4: Climate-Smart Agriculture for Food Security As reported in the report recently issued by the United Nations (Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change – IPCC Report 2021), the benefits that technology provides to a green and sustainable economy are highly appreciated and under intense research and development globally. Actual technologies, applied in the domain of Climate-Smart Agriculture (CSA), can bring the needed functionalities and performances for reaching eco-friendly, circular and practical solutions, having as one of the main targets the Food Security. By CSA is possible to obtain more controlled quality production, water use optimisation, and a lower spreading of pesticides and fertilisers, serving the improvement of food quality, but also helping the respect of agriculture for the environment. |
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Keynote 2.5: The Global Citizen Safety and Security. From Pandemics to the Effects of Climate Change, Migration and the Challenges of Multiple Complex Emergencies and Large-Scale Disasters Thanks to many of the advancements in Science and Technology, life expectancy for the average person in the world has steadily increased from 2.5 billion in 1950 to over 8 billion by 2022. As individuals live longer, more chronic conditions manifest in their lifetimes, which translates in unsustainable increases in healthcare expenses, towards the end of life. Urban and suburban areas keep growing demographically and their population densities are becoming “hot spots” for the transmission of infectious diseases, that could decimate entire populations. Prevention is key to lowering the costs while improving quality of life. Urbanization and overpopulation have created huge amounts of garbage, not just plastics, but toxic waste, water, air, and soil. According to the Lancet Commission on Pollution and Health most of the pollution deaths occur in poorer nations and in some, such as India, Chad, and Madagascar, pollution causes a quarter of all deaths. It kills at least nine million people and costs trillions of dollars every year and warns the crisis “threatens the continuing survival of human societies”. The effects of climate change create additional strains and challenges to our systems. Simultaneous droughts, fires, and floods worldwide, not only affect agriculture and food production but the accelerated melting of existing glaciers has an impact on the availability of drinking water in critical and overpopulated areas around the world. In addition, rising land temperatures and rising sea levels are producing major forced migration problems to many nations. Climate change and global warming are two factors that society cannot ignore since future conflicts will be caused by the availability of water, food, and energy, all required for human survival. |
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26 October 2023 |
Keynote 3.1: The Importance of Climate Change Technologies The IEEE Vice-President of TAB, John Verboncoeur will share his thoughts on why developing climate change technologies is so important. |
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Keynote 3.2: Synthetic Biology Functional Biosensing for Precision Agriculture First, we will review the use of functional biosensing, where the plant is the sensor for precision agriculture. Next, we will present new strategies, based on a novel synthetic biology approach, to introduce new genetic circuits in providing signal to noise, allowing sensing of multiple excitations and generating multiple outputs: optical or electrochemical. |
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Keynote 3.3: CarbonMonitor-Power: Near-Real-Time Monitoring of Global Power System and Its Applications at Local Levels The global power system has faced disruptions, undergoing significant changes post-COVID-19 and amidst emerging geopolitical challenges. This presentation highlights CarbonMonitor-Power, a novel method for real-time carbon emission tracking within global power systems. Accessing such data in a timely manner is crucial for understanding recent carbon emission dynamics influenced by human and natural factors. |
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Keynote 3.4: The IEEE GRSS Earth Observation Database – Application Ready Data at Your Fingertips Data-driven methods such as Deep Learning are the dominating approach in many scientific fields that require modeling a function mapping measurements to target variables. While by no means limited to it, this includes remote sensing and Earth observation with their applications to climate change, hazard management, monitoring and forecasting natural processes, and the sustainable development goals. However, learning-based systems can only be as good as the data they are trained on and thus require large datasets that provide both the actual measurements and values of the target variables. This presentation will discuss the current state and historical development of training datasets for machine learning in Earth observation and the role GRSS plays in their curation with a particular focus on how to find and access such datasets. |
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Keynote 3.5: Innovation of Agrifood Systems through Data-Driven Approaches Digitalisation and technological evolution in electronics play a significant role in sustainable global food security, tackling climate change and population growth. The fact that agrifood systems involve complex integrated biological, ecological and sociological processes; a deeper understanding of the problems and their solutions in agrifood systems requires exploration and integration of data. This talk covers the development and application of innovative data-driven approaches that provide insight into sustainable and smart agrifood systems. The challenges and opportunities are emphasized geographically, culturally and economically. |
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Keynote 4.1: IEEE Future Directions Innovates for IEEE and Beyond IEEE leads the way on innovation on new and emerging technologies for the benefit of humanity. The IEEE Future Directions Committee chaired by Christine Miyachi encourages and fosters that innovation via collaboration both inside and external to IEEE globally through its initiatives, Industry Advisory Board, Future Technology Forums, Roadmaps, and more. Hear Christine share her overview of Future Directions and how you can become involved. |
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Keynote 4.2: Ocean Monitoring The ocean is crucial to sustainability. The ocean is a major source of food, energy, and the planet’s largest long-term carbon store. Many areas of technical innovation are needed to achieve sustainability. Some key areas are ocean observations, renewable energy, and carbon dioxide removal. |
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Panel 4.1: Recent Trends in Nuclear Power Nuclear Power technologies have seen a renaissance, resulting in a range of options. These disruptive changes mean that a deep understanding of the demonstrations is needed to integrate them into future power systems. The Carbon free, base power levels will impact future systems. Our moderator, Sharan Kalwani, will discuss trends with our panelists: Adrian Bull, Chair in Nuclear Energy and Society at The University of Manchester; Ahmed Hussein, CRO at Dual Fluid Energy Inc.; and Steven Mirsky, Nuscale Power. |
Sharan Kalwani; Adrian Bull; Ahmed Hussein; Steven Mirsky |
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Keynote 4.3: Building a Technology Path to Sustainability Showcasing some of many IEEE Initiatives: The FDC IEEE SusTech Initiative, the TAB Climate Change Program, and IEEE SA’s Planet Positive 2030 seek to contribute technical expertise and solutions to address sustainability challenges, including climate change. This talk will review accomplishments to date and future plans. For more information, please visit: IEEE SusTech – IEEE Future Directions, Planet Positive 2030, TAB Climate Change Program. Please note: These initiatives are growing rapidly and new volunteers and contributors are always welcome. We need your technical insights and expertise to help identify pathways and solutions to achieve a long-term sustainable planetary biosphere. |
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Keynote 4.4: Power Beaming and Space Solar Wireless power beaming is the transmission of electrical energy without a physical link. In a wireless power transmission system, a transmitter device, driven by electric power from a power source, transmits power across space to a receiver device, which extracts power from the field and supplies it to an electrical load. The technology of wireless power transmission can eliminate the use of wires and batteries, thus increasing the mobility, convenience, and safety of an electronic device for users. The Naval Research Laboratory (NRL) has a strong heritage of turning visionary ideas into reality: nuclear submarines, space surveillance, and GPS are just a few examples that have roots at NRL. Today, a confluence of advances at NRL and elsewhere presents an opportunity for two potentially revolutionary energy technologies: Power Beaming & Space Solar. As recognized in NRL’s reports on these topics, delivering energy without moving or employing mass and the prospect of collecting clean, continuous, abundant sunlight in space and distributing it globally present compelling capabilities for remote installation energy resupply, disaster response, and power for the developing world. Dr. Jaffe has been conducting space-based solar energy research for more than a decade, focusing in part on transmitting solar energy from space to Earth; in this presentation, Dr. Jaffe will present the visions for power beaming and space solar, and delve into their technical, regulatory, and economic challenges and opportunities. |
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