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Guest Post: Climate Risks To Financial Performance Are Hugely Under-estimated

ESG Today

Firms underestimate climate risks Climate change impacts are already noticeable throughout the global economy. Climate expertise is concentrated in academic settings, rather than industry, and existing climate research, models and scenarios do not adequately capture risks to businesses.

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Sounding the Alarm on Global Learning Poverty

3BL Media

Even before the pandemic, the global learning poverty rate was 57 percent. The economic impact is staggering, with $21 trillion lost in potential lifetime earnings by these students in present value, which is 17 percent of today’s global GDP. trillion in increased productivity to the global economy.

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Mastercard: How Data and AI Can Drive Change: 4 Ways Forward

3BL Media

For example, an initiative called DISHA , or Data Insights for Social Humanitarian Action, brings together technologists, academics, philanthropists and other partners to scale AI products. trillion to the global economy , said Gayan Peiris, an advisor for data, technology and AI to the U.N. DISHA, led by the U.N.

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Call for Abstracts: 2024 International Conference on Sustainable Development

Sustainable Development Network

If you would like to present at the conference, you must submit an abstract as directed below. non-presenters). PowerPoint) presentations. Presenters invited to give oral presentations must submit a full paper by 1 August 2024, in order to maintain their position in the program. Registration will open in July 2024.

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AI Ethics Are in Danger. Funding Independent Research Could Help

Stanford Social Innovation

These much larger models, however, have goals as broad and complex as “meaningfully answering any possible text question” and require resources far out of reach of all but the most well-funded corporate institutions and academic labs. One such model is the large language model, or LLM. We extend Bender et al.’s

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Global Commons Stewardship Index contrasts how countries impact the environment at home and abroad

Sustainable Development Network

Scores and dashboards are presented in proportional terms that allow comparison across countries with very different sizes, usually in per capita units, and also in absolute terms to identify which coun­tries are having the greatest absolute impacts on the Global Commons. envirocenter.yale.edu

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Circumnavigating the Globe in the Search of Happiness and Sustainability

Sustainable Development Network

Equity & Well-being A pivotal aspect of sustainable happiness highlighted in several presentations was the importance of equity and well-being. Paul Polman, Chair of the International Chambers of Commerce and the UN Global Compact, and Co-Founder of IMAGINE, said, “ Happiness and the Sustainable Development Goals are nearly the same….