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arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Engineering Carbon Credits Towards A Responsible FinTech Era: The Practices, Implications, and Future

arXiv:2501. 14750v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Carbon emissions significantly contribute to climate change, and carbon credits have emerged as a key tool for mitigating environmental damage and helping organizations manage their carbon footprint.

By Qingwen Zeng, Hanlin Xu, Nanjun Xu, Zhenghao Zhao, Joakim Westerholm, Flora Salim, Junbin Gao, Huaming Chen
arXiv Machine Learning
Jun 4

Geospatial Foundation Models to Enable Progress on Sustainable Development Goals

arXiv:2505. 24528v3 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: Foundation Models (FMs) are large-scale, pre-trained artificial intelligence (AI) systems that have revolutionized natural language processing and computer vision, and are now advancing geospatial analysis and Earth Observation (EO).

By Pedram Ghamisi, Weikang Yu, Xiaokang Zhang, Aldino Rizaldy, Jian Wang, Chufeng Zhou, Richard Gloaguen, Gustau Camps-Valls
arXiv Machine Learning
Jul 7

Closing Gaps in Emissions Monitoring with Climate TRACE

arXiv:2511. 19277v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Global greenhouse gas emissions estimates are essential for monitoring and mitigation planning.

By Brittany V. Lancellotti, Jordan M. Malof, Aaron Davitt, Gavin McCormick, Shelby Anderson, Pol Carb\'o-Mestre, Gary Collins, Verity Crane, Zoheyr Doctor, George Ebri, Kevin Foster, Trey M. Gowdy, Michael Guzzardi, John Heal, Heather Hunter, David Kroodsma, Khandekar Mahammad Galib, Paul J. Markakis, Gavin McDonald, Daniel P. Moore, Eric D. Nguyen, Sabina Parvu, Michael Pekala, Christine D. Piatko, Amy Piscopo, Mark Powell, Krsna Raniga, Elizabeth P. Reilly, Michael Robinette, Ishan Saraswat, Patrick Sicurello, Isabella S\"oldner-Rembold, Raymond Song, Charlotte Underwood, Kyle Bradbury
arXiv AI
Jun 11

Sustainability assessment using multimodal AI agents

arXiv:2507. 17012v2 Announce Type: replace Abstract: Reducing the rapidly growing environmental impact of the computing industry requires assessing the emissions of electronics at scale.

By Zhihan Zhang, Alexander Metzger, Yuxuan Mei, Felix H\"ahnlein, Zachary Englhardt, Tingyu Cheng, Gregory D. Abowd, Shwetak Patel, Adriana Schulz, Vikram Iyer