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13 February 2018

Big Data and Artificial Intelligence for Conservation

Dr. Balakrishna Pisupati
Data and information are paving the way for a great revolution in governance of our natural resources, but they are remarkably absent from the formal discussions and negotiations that move the global conservation agenda through multilateral processes.
January 2020

The Impact of Big Data and Artificial Intelligence (AI) in the Insurance Sector

Organisation for Economic Co-operation and Development (OECD)
This report examines both the benefits and risks big data and AI can bring to the insurance industry. In particular, this reports discusses how the OECD Recommendation on Artificial Intelligence and the European Commission’s Independent High-Level Expert Group on Artificial Intelligence’s (HLAG AI) Ethics Guidelines for Trustworthy AI should be considered in the context of the insurance sector.

Sebastián Muñoz

Experiencies Design and UX
Rutopia

Yaxuan Chen

Senior Consultant, Economic and Trade Policy Unit, Economy Division
United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP)
December 2019

Digitising Agrifood: Pathways and challenges

Centre for European Policy Studies (CEPS), Barilla Center for Food & Nutrition Foundation (BCFN)
This report looks at the many ways in which digital solutions can be implemented on the ground to help the agri-food chain transform itself to achieve more sustainability.
16 March 2020 to 18 March 2020
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2020 Natural Capital Symposium

The Natural Capital Symposium, taking place at Stanford University in California on 16-18 March 2020, is a unique opportunity to explore cutting-edge research and how to use the natural capital approach.
1 December 2020
Call for Applications

AI4Cities launches its Request for Tenders

AI4Cities, an EU-funded Pre-Commercial Procurement (PCP), has launched its Request for Tenders (RfT).
June 2020

Achieving a Green Recovery for China: Putting Zero-Carbon Electrification at the Core

The COVID-19 crisis has had a massive impact on economies across the world, with several governments now seeking to design recovery programs. Ideally such programs should not only support recovery from recession but help achieve greener and more sustainable economies for the future. This report recommends that China’s green recovery package combine four key actions.
April 2020

Use of 4IR Technologies in Water and Sanitation in Latin America and the Caribbean

The goal of this report is to provide an overview of some of the current applications of key 4IR technologies (Artificial Intelligence, the Internet of Things and Big Data, Blockchain, Drones and Remote Sensing, and Virtual and Augmented Reality) in the Water, Sanitation and Hygiene sector (WASH) globally and in the Latin American and the Caribbean (LAC) region, and outline the main opportunities and challenges in deploying these technologies in the WASH sector.
December 2016

Fintech and Sustainable Development: Assessing the Implications

Inquiry into the Design of a Sustainable Financial System (UN Environment Inquiry)
The report, Fintech and Sustainable Development - Assessing the Implications, assesses how the financial system’s core functions are likely to be disrupted by financial technology (“fintech”) innovations and how they could help – or hinder – efforts to align financing with sustainable development.

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