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0zR4n m] +nAxҹٸ5p,{P6j\eZ]ucK_ד[5 lyK!漶4z~ո!&M1buma;B:p.^.amkoC[ZiSMinnesota looks to stop skid vs. Bethune-CookmanOTTAWA, ON , Dec. 19, 2024 /CNW/ - As the year ends, Canadians will mark that 2024 is on track to be the hottest year ever recorded, with record-breaking extreme weather events driving up a wide range of costs from groceries to insurance premiums. Our comprehensive climate plan is making a difference in the fight against climate change, positioning Canada to have a stronger, greener economy, safeguarding us from increasing costs, and protecting our health and safety in the coming years and decades. For the first time in Canada's history, the Government of Canada has released an early summary of Canada's greenhouse gas emissions estimates from the National Inventory Report ahead of the full publication in the spring of 2025. This report, announced by the Minister of Environment and Climate Change Canada, the Honourable Steven Guilbeault, reveals that Canada's economic sector emissions have dropped year-over-year between 2022 and 2023, to 694 megatonnes, a drop of 6 megatonnes. This is equivalent to taking over 1.8 million cars off the road for a year. Canada's emissions are now the lowest they have been in 27 years, excluding the pandemic years, and significantly lower than pre-pandemic levels. In 2015, Canada's emissions were projected to increase by 9% by 2030 when compared to 2005 levels. The data today confirms Canada is now successfully bending the emissions curve. Thanks to the efforts of all Canadians, our economy continues to grow, all while we're cutting pollution. Preliminary data includes: Between 2005 and 2023, the emission intensity of Canada's economy was cut by 34%. Since 2005, emissions from electricity decreased by 67 megatonnes (-58%) driven by the phase-out of coal-fired electricity generation. In 2025, our focus on climate action will include finalizing pollution reduction measures in the oil and gas industry, a sector with a critical role to play in meeting the country's climate objectives. We will also finalize the Investment Tax Credits, which will support investments in technologies that will reduce emissions and create new, well-paying, middle-class jobs. We are powering forward to a low-emission future. But there is more work to do. Building a clean economy is not a given—it will take real actions and the shared conviction that a strong economy and healthy environment can be built for everyone. Quotes "Today's data confirms what we have been saying: our plan is working. Thanks to the work of Canadians from every region of this country, we are succeeding in cutting pollution to the lowest level in over 27 years (excluding pandemic years), while our economy is growing. We are doing that by supporting the industries that are creating jobs for Canadians, alongside measures that help Canadians with cost savings in their daily lives. This month, we have made substantial progress with the release of the Canada's national electricity strategy. As we look to the coming year, finalizing the cap on greenhouse gas pollution in the oil and gas sector will be essential to build a better world for our kids and grandkids. – The Honourable Steven Guilbeault, Minister of Environment and Climate Change Quick facts The 2023 economic sector emissions estimates do not include the land use, land-use change and forestry (LULUCF) accounting contribution, which will not be finalized until 2025, and which is projected to be about 40 megatonnes of additional reductions. With the LULUCF accounting contribution added, Canada's emissions for 2023 are estimated to be about 14 per cent below 2005 levels, which will be confirmed once the data are available next year. Associated links Canada's Preliminary Greenhouse Gas Emissions (1990-2023) Environment and Climate Change Canada's X page Environment and Climate Change Canada's Facebook page Environment and Natural Resources in Canada's Facebook page Environment and Climate Change Canada's LinkedIn page Environment and Climate Change Canada's Instagram page SOURCE Environment and Climate Change Canada View original content: http://www.newswire.ca/en/releases/archive/December2024/19/c6075.html © 2024 Benzinga.com. Benzinga does not provide investment advice. All rights reserved.
Middle East latest: Israeli strikes in Gaza kill more than 50 people, including kidsThe AI revolution is advancing in both accessibility and innovation. GIGABYTE offers a range of solutions for businesses, developers, and consumers to make AI more usable. The company also integrates AI into its hardware and software, and collaborates with top-tier chip suppliers. The transformative potential of AI in everyday life is vast. The International Monetary Fund (IMF) has forecast that 40% of jobs will be affected in some way by the generative AI revolution. It's being used in government, medicine, business, and in our personal lives. But the ubiquity of AI comes with a challenge. In a world where AI is accessible to all, standing out from the rest demands powerful, accessible solutions. GIGABYTE is a leader in AI innovation, offering comprehensive AI solutions that cater to the needs of consumers, businesses, and developers alike. 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It can support clusters to further improve computing performance." The ability to support not just AI language generation, but multimodal content generation using cutting-edge artificial intelligence, could help unlock efficiencies and innovations in several fields, from academic and scientific research to small and medium businesses. Moreover, the AI TOP solution utilizes Retrieval-Augmentation Generation (RAG) to ensure a higher quality of responses to queries and prompts, reducing hallucinations, while many other features enable it to be more intelligently used by customers, from training schedulers that allow you to run experiments and processes during off-peak periods to reduce costs and raise efficiencies, to real-time monitoring through a customizable dashboard that can track system performance across CPU, GPU, VRAM, DRAM, and SSD. Its ability to scale through clustering, which connects multiple AI TOP machines to expand computational power, makes it ideal for training complex models like the 405-billion-parameter open-source language models and beyond. To be compatible with AI TOP Utility, the AI TOP hardware focuses on user-centric design and extends to the advanced motherboard, SSD, graphics cards, chassis, and power supply. AI TOP hardware is powered efficiently with home-use electricity ensuring durability and speed, even for demanding workloads. AI TOP SSDs, for instance, offer unprecedented write and read performance, boasting up to 109,500 TBW (terabytes written), making them 20 times more resilient than enterprise SSDs. As a result, GIGABYTE launched an AI TOP setup kit that includes a motherboard, power supply, and chassis, allowing users to customize their choice of graphics cards and SSDs based on computing needs. The AI TOP 100 is ideal for small businesses or personal AI training, while the AI TOP 500 is suited for medium-sized businesses and educational research. Reaching people in their homes to bring them AI High-end AI solutions for businesses and other organizations aren't all GIGABYTE offers — home users can benefit, too. GIGABYTE offers a broad range of AI gaming laptops with optimized power management and AI features that help transform the hardware and improve technology performance through its exclusive AI Nexus technology that empowers additional gaming performance and battery efficiency using artificial intelligence, all while enhancing existing AI applications on a PC. AI Nexus helps bring about immersive gaming experiences that are next-gen thanks to its built-in Stable Diffusion and ComfyUI, eliminating the hassle of installation while allowing users to harness the power of both programs. 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Jaland Lowe flirted with a triple-double as Pitt improved to 6-0 with a 74-63 win over LSU on Friday afternoon at the Greenbrier Tip-Off in White Sulphur Springs, W.Va. Lowe finished with a game-high 22 points to go along with eight rebounds and six assists for the Panthers, who have won their first six games of a season for the first time since the 2018-19 campaign. It would have been the second straight triple-double for Lowe, who had 11 points, 10 rebounds and 10 assists against VMI Monday. Ishmael Leggett chipped in 21 points and Cameron Corhen supplied 14, helping Pitt outshoot the Tigers (4-1) 44.4 percent to 37.3 percent overall. Vyctorius Miller and Jalen Reed recorded 14 points apiece for LSU, with Reed also snatching seven boards. Cam Carter contributed 11 points. Pitt took control in the first four-plus minutes of the second half, opening the period on a 13-0 run to build a 40-28 lead. The Tigers were held scoreless following the break until Carter converted a layup with 13:13 to go. It was still a 12-point game after Zack Austin hit a pair of free throws with 12:50 remaining, but LSU then rallied. Corey Chest, Reed and Jordan Sears each had a bucket down low for the Tigers during an 8-1 spurt that made it 43-38. However, Lowe stemmed the tide, answering with back-to-back 3-pointers to put the Panthers up 49-38 with 9:31 left. Miller did everything he could to keep LSU in contention, scoring eight points in a span of 1 minute, 23 seconds, with his four-point play getting the Tigers within 56-52 with 6:03 to play. But Pitt never let LSU get the upper hand, and it led by at least six for the final 5:05 of the contest. The Tigers had a 28-27 edge at intermission after ending the first half on an 8-2 run. LSU overcame a quick start by the Panthers, who raced out to a 12-6 advantage and led by as many as eight in the first 20 minutes of action. --Field Level Media
