#artificial intelligence News
Communities are campaigning against the arrival of AI-powered data centres that they say bring negative environmental impacts.
Better early-warning systems make for better disaster preparedness – but the vulnerable are still missing out on long-term help.
Data centre hubs in the region can meet at least 30 per cent of their electricity demand by the end of the decade with wind and solar, without the need for battery storage, finds a new report by Ember.
Spun off from the Singapore central bank, Gprnt offers small and medium-sized firms a free tool that automatically converts utilities data into basic climate metrics. Backed by Ant International and MUFG, the platform aims to scale in Asia.
Policy & Finance
Invest in capacity building to plug Asia's green jobs gap: experts
#artificial intelligence Opinion
Carbon & Climate
An intelligent trade-off: AI as a double-edged sword in Southeast Asia’s climate battle
Although artificial intelligence (AI) offers positive benefits for Southeast Asia’s climate battle, the region should not look at its usage through rose-tinted glasses. Without careful consideration, such systems may inadvertently undermine and be counterintuitive to the very climate goals that they aim to achieve.
Carbon & Climate
Sustainability in an unstable world
The rise of 'greenhushing' – when companies downplay environmental risks for financial or political reasons – reflects not just changing communications strategies, but rising tensions between competing priorities.
Carbon & Climate
DeepSeek’s AI disruption: Implications for global climate policy
China's DeepSeek demonstrates that AI can be trained in a more efficient way and has enormous implications for Big Tech, which will be pressured to justify efforts to reduce climate impact.
Carbon & Climate
Power-hungry AI is driving a surge in tech giant carbon emissions. Nobody knows what to do about it
Since the release of ChatGPT, the world has seen a surge in investment and use of artificial intelligence. The social and economic impacts of this boom have provoked reactions, but the environmental costs have received far less attention.
Food & Agriculture
AI can transform global food security and climate action
Carbon & Climate
How education and social media regulation can combat science denial
#artificial intelligence Podcasts
Corporate Responsibility
To fight ESG scepticism, build alliances: Singtel’s Andrew Buay on the survival secrets of a chief sustainability officer
Andrew Buay, vice president for group corporate sustainability at Singtel, tells the EB Podcast that CSOs should not be precious about losing part of their job as the function evolves.
#artificial intelligence Press Releases
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Hamburg Declaration on Responsible AI: Global leaders commit to responsible AI for sustainable development
UN Trade and Development (UNCTAD)
Copper supply crunch threatens energy and digital transitions
United Nations Development Programme (UNDP)
Human development progress slows to 35-year low: UNDP report
UN Environment Programme (UNEP)
New coalition aims to put artificial intelligence on a more sustainable path
