💻 Developer Nexus: World Economic Forum
janwillemtulp/wef-dataviz-contest-nov2010
Source code for the World Economic Forum Data Visualization Challenge: http://www.visualizing.org/challenge/world-economic-forum-data-visualization-challenge (nov 2010)
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In 1996, the “Rome Declaration on World Food Security and World Food Summit Plan of Action” by FAO declared the access to adequate food is a human right where water for human consumption is considered as food too. Following that declaration, since the beginning of 21st century, policy debate on food vs. fuel has raised public demonstration throughout the world, particularly in Brazil, US and Europe due to the dilemma regarding farmland use changes by rising biofuel production which reinforce negatively the food supply. That worldwide concern regarding Water-Energy-Food nexus has led controversy within the existing international and regional legal systems such as policy harmonization debates between EU and her member states regarding water, food and energy domains even though food as a sub-domain of common agricultural policy was predominately a common concern at the EU level since its origin. Concurrently, in 2010, UN Resolution 64/292 explicitly recognized human right to clean drinking water and German Federal Government initiated, for the first time as such, an on-line resource platform for Water-Energy-Food Security nexus funded by EU and in partnership with World Economic Forum, WEF and IFPRI. Subsequently Bonn Conference 2011 on ‘The water Energy Food Security Nexus – Solutions for the Green Economy’ recognized the nexus perspective and provided the guiding principles for the nexus which drawn outstanding policy discourse in the UN Conference on Sustainable Development held in Rio 2012. Consecutively, in 2012, US National Intelligence Council published their report on ‘Global Trends 2030: Alternative Worlds’, where the nexus is declared as the fourth out of five most emerging global trends. Since then, subsequently, many governments like US, Germany, Brazil etc. as well as regional and international organizations like EU, UNWater and OECD have started policy discourse on how to recognize nexus and manage nexus resources using innovation and technology while there is no legal definition of such nexus. Very recently, on 25 September 2015, UN Resolution 70/1 on ‘Transforming Our World: the 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development’ declared 17 sustainable development goals where goal 2, 6, and 7 deals with food, water and energy security respectively. In addition, paragraph 16 of the said Resolution explicitly specified the need to bridge digital divide and to develop knowledge society using ICT as a means. This utterance of the said UN Resolution is coherent with the EU Decision 456/2005/EC which clearly emphasised to make digital content in Europe more accessible, usable and exploitable. However, in the case of nexus, following major problems are not in favour of implementing mentioned UN Resolution and EU Decision -
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Do you know, as per WHO every year seven million people die from breathing polluted air and also, during world environmental day the WHO has warned that nine out of ten people on earth breathe polluted air(10 facts about air pollution on World Environment Day | World Economic Forum n.d.)? There is also a huge problem as we are all aware of happening around the world in terms of global warming. Gases like carbon potentially damage the earth's ozone layer. This is something that can destroy humankind by the hit of even a small asteroid. As responsible data engineers, what we can contribute to society in this regard? There could be so many topics I could talk about, but I strongly believe it’s time for us, data engineers to make use of technology to deep dive into the data to explore it further and make predictions from it. We can make use of these predictions to focus on those counties or towns so that govt. can put more regulations in place to protest against the unrestrained use of plastic or fossil fuel vehicles (Hertwich et al. 2001). Such measures are inevitable in this era to mitigate the air pollution in the country and around the world. Even though several studies like (Roberts 2004) have been done in the past, In my view, this analysis is expected to make accurate and more efficient models which can impact the society to act differently by using more eco-friendly vehicles and materials in day to day life leveraging the air pollution in all the cities of US.
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