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Climate change: AI tool to harmonise global carbon trade
Despite suffering from some of the worst impacts of climate change, Africa only receives about 12 percent of the nearly $300 billion in annual financing it needs to cope, underscoring the glaring inequalities that envelop the climate debate. PHOTO | SHUTTERSTOCK
As the debate on whether large carbon emitters should be compelled to take responsibility and remit carbon offset payments to non-emitters continues to gather momentum across the globe, techies are taking the deliberation a notch higher by researching workable solutions.
During the launch of this year’s edition of the Kenya Innovation Week, Commonwealth Secretary-General (SG) Patricia Scotland told the gathering that included President William Ruto that Planet Lab, a member of a consortium drawn from tech giants in the Silicon Valley and from the Commonwealth, was working on an Artificial Intelligence (AI)-based tool that would enable the accurate measuring of amounts of carbon stored in each tree for easier calculation of amounts payable in carbon trading.
