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Renewables avoided $480 billion in fossil fuel costs last year. And those savings will continue year after year. This is one of the standout findings from IRENA's latest Renewable Power Generation Costs report. Unlike coal and gas power plants, wind turbines and solar panels don't need a continuous supply of fuel. Once they're built, they continue generating electricity without the ongoing cost of buying coal, gas or oil. And this has three important consequences: ✅ Every unit of renewable electricity generated reduces the need to purchase fossil fuels for power generation. ✅ Those avoided fuel costs accumulate year after year over the lifetime of the asset. ✅ They also reduce exposure to volatile fossil fuel prices and improve energy security. IRENA quantified these savings by comparing actual renewable generation in 2025 with an alternative scenario in which the same electricity was instead generated by each country's existing fossil fuel mix. The result was an estimated $480 billion in avoided fuel costs – and this is just a single year. The economics of renewable energy are often discussed in terms of the cost of building it, but one of its biggest economic advantages comes afterwards. Unlike a one-off saving, avoided fuel costs repeat every year a wind farm or solar farm remains in service.

🚨 Zero Trust for AI Agents Anthropic just released "Zero Trust for AI Agents." As we're thinking about agentic permissions, applying a Zero Trust discipline is critical to secure adoption. AI agents interpret goals, call tools, chain actions, delegate to other agents, and maintain context across sessions. The trust surface is different. The paper introduces "least agency" — a concept that OWASP has been promoting — and the distinction from least privilege is worth sitting with. 👉 "Least privilege" asks what an identity can access. 👉 "Least agency" asks what an agent can do, under what conditions, with which tools, and with what level of oversight. Autonomous agents introduce action risk alongside access risk — and the boundaries around behavior need to be architecturally enforced, not assumed. The paper includes a design test worth writing down: 🔥 Does the control make the attack impossible, or merely tedious?🔥 The practical controls follow directly from Zero Trust fundamentals — cryptographic agent identity, short-lived credentials, tool allow-listing, sandboxed execution, and full traceability from prompt to action to outcome. None of this is new doctrine. It's existing architecture applied to a harder problem. Full disclosure: the paper cites NIST SP 800-207 on Zero Trust Architecture and the CISA Zero Trust Maturity Model, both of which I co-authored during my time supporting Federal Zero Trust efforts at CISA. Zero Trust is built for a world where we have to remove implicit trust. Agentic AI is the next version of that same problem — valid identities, valid credentials, legitimate-looking actions, and still no basis for assumed trust. Access is earned. Actions are constrained. Agency must be governed. 👉🏼 Link to Anthropic's paper in the comments.

Triodos Bank just launched a €300 million fund that treats nature as a profitable asset class. Not a charity. Not an offset. A return. This has been years in the making. In 2024, Triodos Bank and Fondaction - a Canadian investment fund - announced a partnership with the explicit intention to jointly accelerate positive change in global finance. The goal was clear from day one: close the finance gap for biodiversity and natural capital in developed markets. Last month, that partnership became a fund. Triodos Investment Management and Fondaction Asset Management have launched Value Nature Fund I - a closed-end natural capital fund targeting €300 million, aimed at transitioning farmland and forests to regenerative, closer-to-nature practices across North America and Europe. The fund brings together Fondaction's expertise in impact-driven investments in North American environmental markets. And Triodos's track record in European sustainable food and agriculture systems. Two complementary networks. Two continents. One investment thesis. The financial case is explicit: The firms say the fund comes at a moment of unmatched opportunity - creating value from the transition towards sustainable food and timber supply chains, hedging portfolios against volatility and inflationary pressures, and enhancing the resilience of critical economic sectors. This is not the language of philanthropy. It is the language of a portfolio manager. The fund intends to classify as SFDR Article 9 - the EU's most stringent sustainable finance label - with measurable impact KPIs across biodiversity and ecosystem services, climate mitigation and adaptation, and social wellbeing. Performance is tracked and outcomes are reported. Jonathan Coupland, Portfolio Manager at Fondaction, put it plainly: "Natural capital represents a structural response to ecosystem degradation, helping institutional investors address financial risks that can no longer be overlooked." That sentence matters. Not a values statement. A risk statement. The partnership's founding ambition was to demonstrate the scalability of solutions that address the dual climate and biodiversity crises with integrity - and that can achieve both financial performance and positive outcomes for nature. Value Nature Fund I is that demonstration. At €300 million scale. The question for every institutional investor watching: if Triodos and Fondaction see unmatched opportunity in natural capital and can build the vehicle for it - why not you too?

Have you heard the term “Lazarus” species? It’s when animals reappear after being considered extinct – and eastern barred bandicoots are among them. Three decades ago, the small marsupials were declared extinct in the wild on mainland Australia. But yesterday, 100 of them were released onto Australia's Phillip Island - and Amazon's Right Now Climate Fund helped make it possible! The bandicoots’ backstory is extraordinary. Back in the late 1980s, habitat loss and predators had driven them to the brink. But then, 60 surviving bandicoots were discovered in - of all places - a dump in the state of Victoria. They were taken to sanctuaries, but there was still a big problem: their descendants started to suffer fatal health issues from a lack of genetic diversity. So the Odonata Foundation, Cesar Australia, and the Eastern Barred Bandicoot Recovery Team had an idea. They started breeding mainland bandicoots with genetically distinct Tasmanian populations - and it worked! The bandicoots grew fitter, healthier, more resilient and primed for survival. Not only are eastern barred bandicoots no longer extinct on mainland Australia, but there are more than 2,000 of them - and the project has lasting impact: 🌱 Each eastern barred bandicoot digs through up to three tons of soil every year, improving soil health, water retention, and seed dispersal 🌏 The project could help conservationists save endangered species all over the world The Right Now Climate Fund has invested AU$2.5 million to support a total of nine endangered Australian species protected by the Odonata Foundation, because we know nature is key to building resilience to climate change. It’s amazing to see the results, and I invite you to learn more about what science, collaboration, and commitment to nature can achieve: https://lnkd.in/gikDZi_A Michael Miller Janet Menzies Matthew Benham Justine Mahler Robert Kowalik Jasmine Hyman The Climate Pledge

Meet this Week's Woman in Tech 🥳 Amanda Askell grew up in Prestwick, a small seaside town on Scotland's west coast, raised by her mother, a teacher. As a kid, she devoured Tolkien and C.S. Lewis. The big questions grabbed her early. She studied fine art and philosophy at the University of Dundee - painting and thinking about existence simultaneously. Then University of Oxford for a BPhil in philosophy. Then New York University for a PhD, where her thesis tackled one of philosophy's strangest corners: what happens to ethics when you apply it to infinite populations? In a field obsessed with computer science degrees, she arrived at AI with a completely different toolkit: moral philosophy, ethics, and a deep comfort with ambiguity. She worked at OpenAI on safety research, then left when the company shifted toward capabilities over caution. She joined Anthropic, where she now leads the team responsible for Claude's character - its personality, values, and moral reasoning. She wrote Claude's 30,000-word instruction manual. Anthropic's president Daniela Amodei says "you almost feel a little bit of Amanda's personality" when talking to Claude. TIME named her one of the 100 Most Influential People in AI. The Wall Street Journal's headline: "Her job, simply put, is to teach Claude how to be good." She's committed to donating 10% of her lifetime income and half her equity to charity. Her philosophy: AI models will inevitably develop a sense of self and someone needs to make sure that self has good values. That someone is a painter-philosopher from a small Scottish town. #AI #WomaninTech

Looking for New Year's resolutions for 2026... look no further!!! The evidence is clear: most people want stronger climate action. What often holds us back is the feeling that if we cannot do everything, doing something barely matters. That is simply not true. Research from World Resources Institute shows that climate-friendly actions are not equal. Some choices deliver far more impact than others and what makes sense depends on where you live, how you work, what you can afford, and what is available to you. So what could climate action look like — realistically — for different people? 1️⃣ If you live in a city with public transport: ✅ Replace some car trips with walking, cycling or transit ✅ Work remotely when possible ✅ Fly less often, or choose direct flights when you do 2️⃣ If you rely on a car: ✅ Drive less where you can ✅ Shift to an EV or hybrid when replacing your car (not before) ✅ Combine trips instead of optimizing every detail 3️⃣ If food choices feel overwhelming: ✅ Reduce meat rather than eliminate it ✅ Try plant-based meals a few days a week ✅ Focus on what is sustainable for your household, not ideals 4️⃣ If you own or manage a home: ✅ Improve insulation when renovating anyway ✅ Switch to heat pumps or solar when systems need replacing ✅ Prioritize long-term savings over short-term perfection 5️⃣ If you have limited options: ✅ Support climate-smart policies ✅ Vote, engage, and amplify collective solutions ✅ Remember that systems change enables individual change — not the other way around A better resolution for 2026 Do what fits your life and focus on what actually matters. Climate progress happens when millions of people make realistic, imperfect, high-impact choices, while pushing leaders, companies and institutions to make those choices easier for everyone. That is the mindset I am carrying into 2026 — and I invite you to do the same. https://lnkd.in/ePEuUaTT

AI security/securing the use of AI is going to kill me. I use Claude Code almost daily. It's a problem.... Here's what I have to change AGAIN this week. Security researcher Ari Marzuk disclosed 30+ vulnerabilities across AI coding tools. Cursor. GitHub Copilot. Windsurf. Claude Code. All of them. He called it IDEsaster. The attack chain includes prompt injection, hijacking LLM context, and auto-approved tool calls executing without permission. Then, legitimate IDE features are weaponized for data exfiltration and RCE. Your .env files. Your API keys. Your source code. Accessible through features you thought were safe. Most studies I read claim that around 85% of developers now use AI coding tools daily. Most have no idea their IDE treats its own features as inherently trusted. 𝗦𝗼... 𝗮𝗳𝘁𝗲𝗿 𝗿𝗲𝘃𝗶𝗲𝘄𝗶𝗻𝗴 𝗔𝗿𝗶'𝘀 𝗿𝗲𝘀𝗲𝗮𝗿𝗰𝗵, 𝗵𝗲𝗿𝗲'𝘀 𝗜 𝘄𝗶𝗹𝗹 𝗯𝗲 𝗱𝗼𝗶𝗻𝗴... Be warned: All this is SO much easier said than done! Audit every MCP server connection. Checked for tool poisoning vectors where legitimate tools might parse attacker-controlled input from GitHub PRs or web content. Removed servers I couldn't verify. Disabled auto-approve for file writes. The attack chains weaponize configuration files and project instructions like .claude/settings.json and CLAUDE.md. One malicious write to these files can alter agent behavior or achieve code execution without additional user interaction. Move all credentials to a secrets manager. No .gitignored .env files in agent-accessible directories. API keys live in 1Password CLI. Environment variables inject at runtime through a wrapper script the LLM never sees. Start running Claude Code in isolated containers. Mounted volumes limited to specific project directories. No access to ~/.ssh, ~/.aws, or ~/.config. If the agent gets compromised, blast radius stays contained. Enable all security warnings. Claude Code added explicit warnings for JSON schema exfiltration and settings file modifications. These exist because Anthropic knows the attack surface. Add pre-commit hooks for hidden characters. Prompt injections hide in pasted URLs, READMEs, and file names using invisible Unicode. Flag non-ASCII characters in any file the agent might ingest. The fix isn't to stop using AI coding tools. The fix is to stop trusting them implicitly. What controls do you have for AI tools with write access to your codebase? 👉 Follow for more AI and cybersecurity insights with the occasional rant #AISecurity #DevSecOps

IndiGo (InterGlobe Aviation Ltd) CRISIS WASN’T IN THE SKIES. IT WAS IN THE LEADERSHIP CABIN. Three things stood out. One: Employees were left alone to face furious customers. No leader should ever let that happen. If you don’t stand by your people in a storm, don’t expect them to stand by your customers in the sun. Customer experience collapses the moment employees feel abandoned. Two: In any crisis, honesty is the only strategy that works. This time, the communication wasn’t transparent. When leaders hide the full picture, years of goodwill can disappear overnight. A crisis can earn trust, but only if you tell the truth. Three: The belief that “we are too big to be ignored” has ended more companies than competition ever has. Customers always have a choice. And if they don’t, they will create one. We shouldn’t watch the Indigo crisis like spectators. This is a reminder for every leader to build their own crisis blueprint. Because crises will come, when they do, your response becomes your reputation. There is more to business than profits. There are people, trust, and how you show up when it matters most.

🚛 WHEN TRANSPORT LEARNS TO THINK GREEN I came across a concept today that stopped me — an autonomous hydrogen truck-trailer drone designed for long-distance freight. At first, it looked like another futuristic vehicle. But then it hit me: this isn’t just transport evolving — it’s intent evolving. For decades, we’ve designed logistics around speed and scale. Now we’re finally designing around sustainability. This new concept merges autonomy, aerodynamics, and hydrogen power to do something radical: → Eliminate carbon emissions in heavy freight. → Cut operational energy costs through intelligent routing. → Reduce highway congestion with coordinated drone convoys. It’s not just engineering — it’s a shift in philosophy. A move from moving faster to moving responsibly. We often talk about “green tech” as a feature — but the real shift happens when sustainability becomes the invisible infrastructure behind innovation. It’s not an addition to progress. It is progress. What’s needed now isn’t more invention — it’s integration. We need to: ✅ Build networks where clean energy and automation reinforce each other. ✅ Redefine “efficiency” to include environmental balance. ✅ Shift from carbon offsetting to carbon prevention at design level. Because the next breakthrough won’t come from faster engines — but from systems that make waste impossible by design. That’s when technology stops being an experiment in innovation… and becomes an expression of intelligence. So here’s the question I keep returning to — 👉 Will the next era of transport be powered by fuel — or by foresight? #Innovation #Sustainability #Hydrogen #AutonomousVehicles #GreenTech #Logistics #FutureThinking

Every person should have one folder in their computer that is the "In Case of Death" folder... and this is how it is structured... The folder is used to manage and pass on one's assets to successors easily... and to avoid any legal hassles. This folder is divided into 5 parts: 1/ Personal IDs - Birth Certificate - Marriage Certificate - Aadhaar and Passport - Divorce Decrees - Change of Name Affidavits 2/ Legal & Estate Management Documents - Last Registered Will with notarized copy - Succession Certificates for Movable Assets - Guardianship Documents for minor children / dependants 3/ Financial Assets and Accounts - Bank Account details and statements - Demat Account, Shares, Mutual Funds, Investment Portfolio - Insurance Policy Documents with Beneficiaries - Outstanding loan documents - Bank Locker or Safe Deposit Locations and Access details 4/ Property Documentation - Real Estate and Business - Property Deeds and Titles for Real Estate - Mortgage Documents - Rental Agreements - Business Ownership Documents and Succession Plan 5/ Digital Assets and Access Information - Email with recovery information - Social media contact and legacy contact preferences - Domain names, Cloud Storage - Digital Subscriptions of material value The best way to manage passwords here is to provide access to Password Managers where you can add an Emergency Contact who can access all passwords in case of such conditions. There are apps like 1Password, NordPass and Keeper which offer printable PDF documents for emergency access that can be kept in this folder. These apps allow a waiting period from last activity after which the emergency contacts can use the data. Also, please ensure that you submit all such documents for probate and get them drafted by a trusted lawyer. I would also hope you would tell trusted family members about where you have stored this information so that they can access it when required. Above all, wish you all a long and healthy life. #casarthakahuja