THE MALDIVES, which aims to be carbon neutral by 2020, could significantly benefit from the Integrated Resource Model, a new branch of environmental science that could boost economic growth and reduce carbon emissions.
Developed by Peter Head of the Ecological Sequestration Trust, the model uses cloud computing to create ecological models that boost economic growth and reduce carbon emissions.
At the third annual Six Senses Slow Life Symposium, Head said that global computing power could be used to create a new development model for the Maldives.
“Integrated resourcing covers energy, food, water and waste management. It is the concept that no single environmental problem can be solved in isolation,” Head said, adding that the concept of sharing was vital in the fight against climate change.
Cloud computing is just one example of sharing, as it shares computing processing power. Cloud computing is vital to his integrated resource modeling, which will be made available through open source on the “cloud”.
Head added that linking urban and rural development could boost overall agricultural output despite the loss of land for residential development.
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