The impact of AI on climate change is a hot topic. Proponents of AI will tell you that AI will soon be smart enough to solve a significant part of the climate crisis. Others are worried about the gigantic energy consumption of these models. In this post, I will discuss …

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In 2021 I wrote a blogpost about the carbon banking plans of Microsoft and Rabobank. The aim of their project was to plant trees on a area spanning 15 million hectares and thus compensate CO₂ of 150 Mton in 2025.

I failed to reproduce these numbers: with the En-ROADS …

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The experiment

In a previous blogpost I conducted a thought experiment. We imagined what would happen if the whole world would implement the policy from the 2021 electoral programme concept of the Dutch prime minister's party. What would be the consequences for the climate? Is the VVD ambitious enough to …

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The experiment

In a previous blogpost I conducted a thought experiment. We imagined what would happen if the whole world would implement the policy from the 2021 electoral programme concept of the Dutch prime minister's party. What would be the consequences for the climate? Is the VVD ambitious enough to …

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Yesterday Rabobank announced a carbon banking plan in collaboration with Microsoft. The figure below summarizes their ambitions: they aim to plant trees on a land area of 15 million ha in order to compensate for 150 Mton of CO2 emissions in 2025.

Plan by Rabobank and Microsoft

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The experiment

This blogpost is a thought experiment. Imagine the entire world would implement the policy from the 2021 electoral programme concept of the Dutch prime minister's party. What would be the consequences for the climate? Is the VVD ambitious enough to …

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