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So, my name is Tobias Augsburger. I'm part of the Open Sustain Tag community, also known

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as Open Sustainable Technology. I would try to make this actually a happy talk, even if the

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topic itself is not that happy. So, it's about disrupting the destruction of our natural

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world with openness, and this is a series of talks we want to make, and this is especially

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about traceability and accountability, because most people don't understand why open source

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open signs and all this open movements are so relevant when it's especially comes to trace

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ability and accountability. So, we are small community of people that come together and just

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try to find out actually what are the open source projects that are out there in this space so far

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and where are the gaps, and we are analyzing them creating a database all out of all those projects

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with about 2,500 projects at the moment, and those insights we create talks like this one.

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So, at first you might know that we have a serious problem that we have to face,

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so actually our natural world is going to die because of climate change. So, we are at the moment

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at about 1.5 degree, global heating, we might end up at about 3 degree, that's actually my,

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yeah, this is what I guess at the moment, depending on the current political

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climate, I would call it of ignorance and hate and fascism, so it might even be that we end up

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at 40 degrees, this is not very unlikely, and why do you trust me or why do you

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should trust the IPCC report, most known report about climate change, that's one very simple question

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because every plot of the IPCC report is completely open sign, open source, you can go there

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and have a look how those plots are being created, and I come to this more and detail now,

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so those scientists really try to open everything up that is being about climate change,

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and how they actually are analyzing climate change, and how they are doing forecasts in climate change.

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So, the reason why they exist climate change is because there's nobody else who can actually

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open up all this models or all this data to this proof climate change, keep this in mind,

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this is a very good idea how to understand how you actually test if somebody actually has sustainable

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intentions or not, so what does this people do, they use open signs and proof open signs that

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comes traceability, they use open data mostly from satellites and on C2 data, they use a lot of

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open source models and open source tooling to analyze the data, they execute all this data on

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machines that you can have to have a look on with maybe a Jupiter notebook, et cetera,

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then they have open forums, you can just join making issue, you can just make a request or have

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just ask a question, and they open up all of this in an open publication, you can all have a look

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into it, so that's the key actually to sustainability that those people found by just opening up

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all their signs, all their data, they just proof sustainable intentions, and this is the most relevant

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if you're doing a forecast, because maybe the forecast is not correct, maybe something is wrong

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with your model, it's something is wrong with your data, but if you open it up you can at least

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go into discussion about your data, about your signs that you're doing, and that's why this is

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so relevant, so what if you look into, so I wasn't academia, but I was also working quite some

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years before that in the industry, if you look into the industry, you see a lot of

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soil signs, actually soil signs is the state of the art in the industry, for example, for years

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ago you could go to to shell, and if you're just, we're getting some gasoline into your car,

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you can say yes, I want to do a carbon offset for one stand per liter, and this was so just

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a lie, and everybody who really knows about sustainability in about climate was saying yeah,

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if it's just one stand per liter, why are you just starting now with that, and what is people

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who are doing that just planting somewhere, some trees, and then we say yeah, the trees with

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some rock grow, and there's some of compensators, carbon you have created, and then some

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years later on there was an article in the Guardian that just found out that actually almost all

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those carbon offsets that are actually used to compensate your emissions were just a lie,

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but you unfortunately find similar lies also on products all around the world, like here from Germany,

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some beef, that is just saying yeah, if you eat this beef, you are actually protecting

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natural resources, this is standing there, it was the WWF sign, so this is really absolutely

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a lie because beef is the worst thing you can do for climate or the environment, and this is well

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known through the whole sustainability community, so the problem we are facing today is not that

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we are missing the technology, we are missing the good numbers, and we are missing good profits,

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so we have a lot of false profits that just tell you lies in like in parliament, et cetera,

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but also a lot of business people, so they tell you renewable energy is unreliable to expensive,

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but they even again don't have any numbers to prove that, they don't have any models,

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but nevertheless we still allow those people to speak, that is real severe problem, the same

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goes that actually climate change itself, not a severe threat to humanity, there's a lot of

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signs around us that is actually severe threat, and all those signs have been opened up to the world,

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nevertheless the journalists and people just pick up some paper that found without any data

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will fit without any model that is just saying it is not the case, so this is like really

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again and again the same pattern that you will see, you will also see that it can be reversed,

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there might be technology, but there is no proof that this technology can access

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get enough and it is economically sensible, so the solution to this is instead of just always asking

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what is actually sustainable or not, you are not an expert in climate, you are not an expert

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in biodiversity, you cannot judge if a product is sustainable or not just because you might think that

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I buy now this hybrid car, this is sustainable or not, the most relevant indicator or proxy for

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sustainability itself is how open was the person who is doing this claim, so has he opened up

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his data, has he opened up his numbers, has he opened up his models, has he actually creating a

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forum that he can discuss his claims, so that he at the end might end up after some discussions

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with other scientists in something that you can call the fact, so this is something that actually

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sounds totally stupid, but it's like if you would just create a label instead of all those

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other labels that just measuring how open are those claims that you put on something, this is

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much more relevant, you just multiply those score, like it's like the notary score, you notary score,

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you multiply the claim sustainability with the open score and you come actually up with a trace

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of sustainability, and this is what matters, is this what is being told to you trace

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with some or not, and you can prove, you can look at it, you don't need to be an expert in climate,

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but you can look into a paper, you can look if there's the data, it's the software available,

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is it open access, is there a GitHub account maybe of this project, and this is the most relevant

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indicator, so that's continued this forth, so maybe what we really need is actually labels

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that are open science, and maybe we can combine them with a QR code, so this QR code will bring

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you to open sustainable text, not to label, but it will, it's just as an idea, so if you combine

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both of them, you would have actually a way to look on a product, to scan it, and then to have

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the data behind it, and I don't mean that like a nice report, I mean the Jupiter notebook,

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the data that really is something that you can just trace back, where does those numbers or those

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claims that somebody is doing coming from, and if there's just open access and there's no data,

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no models behind it that you can have just a look at, then maybe it's just false claims, so

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you can use this for all those labels and you can just trash all the rest of the labels,

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so open science is really like, if you would have an open science label, it would really

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significantly change how we preserve sustainability and how we rate actually sustainability as a consumer,

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so let's bring this to one example, let's look on the beef example, okay, so here's just

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how you could do it, you could do it, and that's what I want to tell you, actually the solution

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to a lot of problems that we're facing today in climate change is false numbers, so we have to

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fix the numbers, and how do you fix numbers nowadays with open source, that creates the best

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numbers in the world, right? So you take like an open platform like global forest watch or

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the trace platform that gives you the agriculture supply chain, then you take an open source package

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like forest at risk, then you put all of this in an open execution way like a Jupiter notebook

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that just somebody can click on it and execute it by himself and have just a little

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code things are computing, and then you create a forum so that people can just ask questions,

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why do you use this data, not this data, why you use this model, and after that you try to

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create a nice plot, and this, if like a career could bring you to such a chain of knowledge,

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this is really proof sustainable intention, and this creates the opportunity on the long term

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actually to create numbers that we can really use, so what you can go one step further,

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you can just say yeah, we are giving so much subsidies to the fossil fuel industry like billions,

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but nevertheless we are society, we don't track what those people are doing with those

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money, even if today we have a proof about climate change, we give them billions, billions

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and billions again, but we don't enforce them to open science, so I was working in a European Union

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project of sports about traceability in climate, and I met people there, they are doing

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like this point-source emission measurements, and they told me and I was like yes we have a problem

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because the fossil fuel industry doesn't work with us, we don't know how much emission

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actually from such a point-source from an oil refinery is actually coming out, so we are measuring

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it for the satellite, but we have no way to validate our own data, so even today those industries

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doesn't work with societies to actually at least they should help to close the leakages,

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but I must also say we as an open source community we also failed, because we build so much

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platforms open street map, but why is there no open emission map that is really a community-based

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project, there's something like climate trace, it's from algors, the closed source project,

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I don't trust it because it's closed source, right? They do, it's an open data platform at least,

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but you don't know how they detect calculations, nevertheless even if it's now 2025 we have

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not as a community really created an open platform, there's one platform from Australia called

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open methane, it's really focused just in Australia and it only measures methane emissions from

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Australia on point sources, but it's so unpopular this project, I think free star something like that,

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right? You can, it's like it's such a relevant topic but nobody cares, like I've seen this in

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this area so many times and what I really think, what really could change things, if if we give

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this first of year industry subsidized we should enforce this by openness, they should install

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sensors at their emissions point source emissions and give this to communities so that they can

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validate those their satellite-based emission methods. This would create actually a way to actually

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trace and make them accountable for what they are doing, but we still don't do this and I don't know

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why, I don't know and I do this talks now for years, I don't know why we don't bring much more

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science and openness to sustain the ability itself, there's so much opportunity that it's actually

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there, you can even, I think you can even make a lot of business out of this nowadays, but nevertheless

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we are a little bit like say lost in our own world too much instead of solving actually real

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well problems that are out here and it can be solved with numbers and the technology like

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I see a lot of cool technology enforce them and I love technology that's not a problem, but we

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have to, there's so much cool technology like the satellite data that you can use this satellite

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data to do this observations is freely available, the tools is also freely available, you can

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do this, you can build a community around this and it's just the matter of that there is actually

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the interest also and the movement inside all of us to do this, so as actually last slide

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and I hope that is something you have understand that openness is really the key proxy to sustainability

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but because you never know if somebody's maybe did something wrong with this forecast, but at least

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every forecast that has been made that is really relevant for our society for our future should

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be completely open and if it's not open just dump it really just ignore it if there is some paper

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and if you just reading a newspaper article and you don't find an open access paper behind it

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but maybe even if the paper behind it is not open access then maybe it's just some created

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by some political interests of business interests, so thank you so much and I hope it was a little bit

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happy