AI For Sustainability Needs To Happen – Right Now
A new report co-authored by PwC and Microsoft, entitled ‘How AI can enable a sustainable future’, argues that AI technologies can enable real change.
Source: aibusiness.com
A new report co-authored by PwC and Microsoft, entitled ‘How AI can enable a sustainable future’, argues that AI technologies can enable real change.
Source: aibusiness.com
razil needs to cut illegal deforestation by between 15% and 20% every year to eliminate it by 2030, Vice President Hamilton Mourao said on Friday, referring to a goal set by President Jair Bolsonaro in a letter to U.S. President Joe Biden this week. Bolsonaro is set to attend a U.S. climate summit hosted by Biden next week amid international pressure to slash deforestation in Brazil’s Amazon rainforest, which surged to a 12-year high in 2020 as an area 14 times the size of New York City was destroyed, government data show.
How is Konica Minolta working towards the SDGs? In 2009, we formulated our Eco Vision 2050 – a long-term plan to achieve a sustainable future. It’s based on our corporate philosophy and consists of three major targets: 1. A global goal to reduce CO2 emissions by 80% throughout the product lifecycle by 2050 compared to 2005. Cooperate with stakeholders to achieve CO2 emission reductions greater than product lifecycle, emissions, and realize Carbon Minus status…
With employment participation rates for people with disability some of the lowest in the country and e-waste one of the fastest-growing types of waste, Enable Australia is finding a way to tackle both problems head-on, writes Maggie Coggan in this month’s Spotlight on Social Enterprise. …
Siemens Energy and the International Renewable Energy Agency (IRENA) have signed a partnership agreement aimed at advancing the global energy transition based on renewable energy, in support of sustainable development goals and climate action. Under the agreement, the organizations will cooperate, facilitate, and strengthen collaboration in areas to advance the global energy transition based on renewable energy.
ABB has secured a landmark contract with Spanish shipbuilder Astilleros Gondán to supply an all-electric power solution for fast 40-meter urban passenger ferries transporting up to 540 passengers each across Lisbon’s Tagus river. The ten new ferries will be operated by the public ferry company Transtejo, S.A. and will replace the existing fleet serving this route when they enter service between 2022 and 2024.
The world’s largest hotel chain has announced that it is to stop providing toiletries in single-use plastic bottles, in a bid to reduce waste caused by the packaging.