Posts Tagged ‘Webinar’
Video coming soon: Beyond the Hype – The Strengths, Weaknesses, and Impacts of Modern AI
In our webinar on Wednesday 18th March, Emeritus Professor Anthony Robins covered a very brief history and overview of the various technologies that have been and are called “Artificial Intelligence” (AI), with a focus on the currently significant “large language models” such as ChatGPT.
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Recent Event: Quantifying the contribution of climate change to extreme weather events
When an extreme heat wave, torrential downpour, or massive wildfire occurs, how do we know whether and how much of a role climate change played? Resilient River Communities hosted this presentation by Dr. Kristina Dahl on 16th December, covering the basics of climate attribution science.
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Video coming soon: Balancing the energy trilemma
EECA Chief Executive Dr Marcos Pelenur will spoke to us on Wednesday 15th October, explaining how energy efficiency and renewables are key to balancing the energy efficiency ‘trilemma’. Dr Pelenur will shared his views on this and the current focus and priorities for the Energy Efficiency and Conservation Authority.
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Browse ESR’s YouTube channel
Discover ESR on YouTube — your gateway to visionary insights and boundary‑pushing ideas. Dive into sharp analysis and content that challenges the status quo. Subscribe now — inspiration for your next engineering breakthrough could be just one video away.
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Watch Video: Now that we’ve reached 1.5ºC, what next?
Hear from David Spratt, the lead Research Director for Breakthrough National Centre for Climate Restoration in Australia. This webinar is cosponsored by Our Climate Declaration, the Wise Response Society, Engineers for Social Responsibility, Degrowth Aotearoa New Zealand, Seniors Climate Action Network, and the Nelson Tasman Climate Forum.
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Video coming soon: Navigating Low-Carbon Building Design – Journeys of France and New Zealand
On Wednesday 20th August we heard Anais Guennoc and Julio Ortiz discuss the Environmental Regulation RE2020 which has been introduced in France, making it one of the first countries to adopt legislation with regulatory thresholds on whole-of-life embodied carbon for buildings. What lessons can be learned for the building and construction industry in New Zealand?
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Watch video: Tipping Points and Planetary Solvency
In this webinar, Professor Tim Lenton from the University of Exeter summarises recent evidence regarding climate tipping points. Associated is the concept of Planetary Solvency, which defines catastrophic impacts as economic contraction with a GDP loss of over 25%, mass human mortality events resulting in over 2 billion deaths, warming of 2 degrees or greater, triggering high numbers of tipping points. Brought to you by ESR, Wise Response, Our Climate Declaration, Degrowth Aotearoa and the Nelson Tasman Climate Forum.
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