Faster, Smarter Climate Mitigation Using Python 🌳

Faster, Smarter Climate Mitigation Using Python 🌳 by Jordan Warbelow-Feldstein @ BlocPower

Python is the key to unlocking trillions of dollars of investment in climate mitigation across various sectors including transportation, agriculture, built-environment, energy and more. Python developers have the ability to create decision making frameworks that will accelerate positive change.

In this talk, attendees will learn how a team of 6 accelerated public policy in the building decarbonization sector by writing a data pipeline in Python and an app in Django. The app, BlocMaps, put hundreds of millions of public dollars to use by helping city planners see the impact of their choices and by making it easier/faster to design policy systems that are effective, equitable and just.

The talk will include a preview of the data pipeline (deceptively simple Python snippets, not rocket science), and the infrastructure used to scale computation of the "every building in the nation" dataset. We’re currently working to open-source those terraform scripts!

How many other sectors of our climate response have one hand tied behind their back because no one has made it easy for the actors to model the climate impact of their decisions? Using Python and data science, what outcomes can you and your team unblock?

This talk is part of the conference’s climate tech 🌳 series, where speakers will discuss how technology can be used to mitigate climate change and make the world a better place.

The 5th annual Python Web Conf (#PWC2023) inspired attendees to use technology for good. The conference attracted 315 attendees from over 30 countries across 15 time zones. The highly engaging format featured 70 speakers, 5 tracks (including 64 talks and 5 tutorials) and took place virtually on March 13-17, 2023 on LoudSwarm by Six Feet Up.

More information about the conference can be found at: https://2023.pythonwebconf.com