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Redefining the Purpose of the Investment System
Watch the video Speakers Host Ana Yang, Acting Executive Director, Hoffmann Centre for Sustainable Resource Economy Chair Nick Silver, Founder & Chairman, Climate Bonds Initiative Panellists...
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Material Transitions: Working with nature for built environments
Frontier session Urgent steps are needed to scale up alternative methods for producing and using materials within the built environment that align with low-emissions pathways....
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Material Transitions: Working with nature for built environments
Near-term session Urgent steps are needed to scale up alternative methods for producing and using materials within the built environment that align with low-emissions pathways....
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Reinventing Air Travel
Watch the video Speakers Omer Bar-Yohay, Founder and CEO, Eviation Aircraft; Robert Boyd, Assistant Director, Aviation Environment, International Air Transport Association; Maria Fiskerud, Senior Project...
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Stakeholder Priorities for a Forward-Looking WTO Agenda on Environmental Sustainability and Trade
Register As governments grapple with Covid-19 responses and recovery, how can international trade cooperation help drive the economic transformation — and just transition — needed to address urgent...
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Why you need to invest in Nature-based Solutions
As governments, investors and private organizations seek to align their activities onto Paris-aligned pathways, Nature-based Solutions provide a necessary tool with which to achieve this. In addition to this, they have...
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Artificial Intelligence: The State of Play
The accelerated adoption of artificial intelligence across an increasing number of sectors during the coronavirus crisis means it will soon become a general purpose technology. But critical improvements that it may bring, including for sustainability, will not come solely from AI but from the understanding of, and engagement with, how the technology interfaces with the existing economic, environmental, social and political world, write Marjorie Buchser and Matthew Oxenford.
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Harnessing Artificial Intelligence to Decarbonize Industrial Sectors
While AI applications to decarbonize heavy industries are promising, a focus on process optimization over its more radical use could limit its potential. However, establishing knowledge bases and policy frameworks to foster innovation could speed up the application of AI to disrupt business-as-usual operations and deliver decarbonization.
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New Horizons for Sustainable and Healthy Built Environments
Built environments have the potential to transform from primarily 'users' of natural resources to 'providers' of societal value, which in turn can create infrastructure that is in harmony with people and nature. But to reach this goal stakeholders must be aligned behind this ambition.
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Flattening the Curve: COVID-19 and the Climate Emergency
Although there is a long way to go before the true implications of the COVID-19 pandemic are known, the crisis does offer a rare opportunity for reflection on how to inform a better response to the other defining emergency of our times — climate change.