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March 2018

Big Data for Resilience Storybook

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

IISD's Big Data for Resilience Storybook explores the links between Big Data and resilience building through a new resilience lens. Aimed at an audience of resilience and development practitioners, the Storybook offers diverse experiences and practice-based recommendations to leverage Big Data’s

27 March 2018 to 29 March 2018

Bangkok, Thailand

Face-to-face

Mobilizing Big Data for Sustainable Development

UN System Staff College
The course aims to help practitioners and policy-makers develop and implement Big Data innovation projects, policies, and partnerships in support of sustainable development objectives. Through a blend of teaching formats, including traditional instructor-led teaching, keynote speakers, and interactive and hands-on technical sessions, participants will learn the foundations of Big Data in the context of sustainable development and explore how to engage with Big Data in their daily work and life.
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.
6 March 2018 to 8 March 2018

Centre d’Information des Nations Unies (UNIC) Dakar, Senegal (Senegal)

Face-to-face

Mobilizing Big Data for Sustainable Development (French Version)

UN System Staff College
Le cours est offert en vue de renforcer les compétences du personnel des Nations unies et des partenaires clés dans la selection, la création, l'utilisation et l'interprétation de données et de statistiques, en mettant l'accent sur l'élaboration et la mise en œuvre des politiques publiques. Il s'appuie sur les méthodes traditionnelles d'analyse de données ainsi que sur les applications plus récentes liées, par exemple, à la technique mobile, au crowdsourcing et aux grandes données.
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.
July 2014

10 Big Ideas for Making Energy Efficiency Bankable in India

International Institute for Sustainable Development (IISD)

In a continent that is starved for energy and infrastructure, it is an enigma that India’s markets for energy efficiency have yet to take off. The authors of the report spent several months researching and debating this issue with stakeholders in India and around the world.

UNEP/GRID-Geneva

The Global Resource Information Database - Geneva (GRID-Geneva), is a partnership between the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), the Swiss Federal Office for the Environment (FOEN), and the University of Geneva (UniGe).
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European ECO Forum

European ECO Forum - Map and Monitor Initiatives in the Pan-European Region

The European ECO Forum commits to engage with members of civil society in countries of the region to map and monitor green economy-focused activities and progress of BIG-E.

23 April 2019
Research

The Case for a Digital Ecosystem for the Environment

David Jensen, Jillian Campbell
Big data sets and new technologies can be brought together to create new knowledge products that can provide environmental insight in near real-time. Now is the time to reimagine and supercharge environmental governance and public-private partnerships by using big data, frontier technologies and data analytics to target our action and investments.
11 July 2018
Projects News

UN Biodiversity Lab Launched to Revolutionize Biodiversity Planning and Reporting

UNDP, UN Environment, and the CBD Secretariat launch a free, open-source platform to provide policy makers with access to world-class data for national action. The UN Biodiversity Lab brings planetary data to policymakers to support delivery of the UN Biodiversity Conservation's Aichi Biodiversity Targets and the Sustainable Development Goals.

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