January 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
What would you call a bloke who makes oil from biomass and pours it down the ground? Most of us would be tempted to consider it a case of mind gone astray. When you hear the co is in silicon valley, you might wonder if this is what happens when...
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January 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Artificial intelligence will play a large role in global decarbonization Artificial intelligence, along with the associated fields of Big Data, Analytics & Digital Twins, can be a dramatic force in CO2 reductions worldwide. Use of digital technologies can cut global GHG emissions by up to a significant 17%, and AI...
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January 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
The challenge of emissions standards & benchmarks in agriculture & nature-based sectors One of the key challenges in climate mitigation efforts and investments is the lack of standards and benchmarks for measurements and reporting. While this is much less of a challenge in domains involving industrial emissions – especially energy...
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January 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
The return of the bullock to India’s farms An eye opener and a must read for every policy maker, especially those who are overawed by high tech precision farming and other novelties. Take-away for me: Decarbonization efforts need to highly country specific. While surely high tech and digital have significant...
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January 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
CLIMAX is looking for marketing & research interns No, you will not be gallivanting with Bollywood or Kollywood stars. CLIMAX is the climate action intelligence section at Clixoo, and we do stuff that’s likely to be more exciting (for the right folks, that is) than what those woods can churn...
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January 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
CLIMAX – Curated global climate efforts at one place Easy access to expert intelligence on actionable, high-impact climate efforts can make a significant difference to key stakeholders – corporates, investors, policy makers, entrepreneurs… While there are thousands of websites for climate change, there is no online resource that curates and...
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January 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
D4D – Digital for Decarbonization Happy to launch D4D, the Digital for Decarbonization section at Clixoo. Use of IT & digital solutions has the potential to reduce global greenhouse gas emissions by about 17%, according to a UN report. That’s a massive potential – almost 9 billion tons of CO2...
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January 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Will the Ukraine invasion result in a bigger renewable push worldwide? As the Russia-Ukraine drama unfolds, here’s an excellent analysis on CarbonBrief on what this conflict means for renewables and climate change – https://lnkd.in/gCVU9pDK I’d recommend this report to those interested in getting a bigger and more detailed picture on...
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January 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
Recently published an article in Chemical Industry Digest Decarbonizing the chemical industry – Stakeholder actionables for 2020-2030 – https://lnkd.in/gyv-VxW5 Based on the Clixoo team’s research, I have provided the comprehensive list of decarbonization avenues, status and characteristics of each, and how corporates can strategize on these for the short and...
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January 3, 2024 by Narasimhan Santhanam Director - EAI
This is a raging debate, and I thought I’d let it rage on LinkedIn as well and get your inputs/comments. A frank discussion between two heads of state, one from a developed economy (say, the US) and another from a relatively less developed economy (say, Bangladesh) could go as follows:...
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