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
Scandinavian fashion label and global It-brand Ganni hardly caused a stir recently when it closed Copenhagen Fashion Week with a sustainability-themed showcase titled “Life on Earth.” Considering that sustainability is now a consumer trend, it is no surprise that a luxury brand touted as “a magnet for cool girls all over the planet” aimed to boost its street cred with a show that put sustainability at its core.
SUSTAINABLE FISHERIES AND SEAFOOD Our oceans are teeming with life, and in the past, have seemed boundless. However, in this age of increased environmental awareness, producers, retailers, leading brands and other organizations now recognize that our oceans and the seafood they support are under threat from a variety of sources.
For people who use plastic straws out of want rather than necessity, it’s easy to hear about the straw bans going around the country and not really care. However, for some people with certain disabilities and their advocates, this is a huge deal.
The amount of resources currently exploited is four times more than it was half a century ago, according to the 2019 report of the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP). The bad news is that the amount of natural resources used is still increasing rapidly. The Global Footprint Network estimates that humans are currently using 60 per cent more resources than what the Earth can renew.
Last year the EU passed ambitious new laws to reduce the consumption of single-use plastics. That same thinking now needs to be applied to the economy as a whole, argues Meadhbh Bolger, saying Europe can get started by setting targets in its upcoming Circular Economy Action Plan.
A firm that aims to make the renewable energy business more environmentally friendly expects to create high skilled jobs in Argyll after winning a……