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There's a 71% chance of La Niña weather conditions developing during September-November, according to the US government's Climate Prediction Center. The climate pattern is linked to floods, droughts and an increased chance of Caribbean hurricanes.
To this end, the AI and ML Platform of the World Economic Forum is exploring what role the World Economic Forum can play in accelerating the use of AI in combatting climate change. This is supported by consensus-based governance frameworks, toolkits and best practice use cases. It will demonstrate data-driven AI roadmaps and approaches to ...
Image: Reuters Staff. This year's El Nino could lead to global economic losses of $3 trillion, according to a study published last month in the journal Science, shrinking GDP as extreme weather decimates agricultural production, manufacturing, and helps spread disease. Governments in vulnerable countries are taking note.
Technological innovation is needed if the world is to avert the most dangerous climate change scenarios. Innovation begins with research and development (R&D) but does not end there. AI can catalyze innovation by translating R&D into climate action. Generative AI’s capabilities for natural language processing, data synthesis and down-scaling ...
Training the AI took four weeks and 32 computers. But the algorithm this produced can predict weather up to 10 days away in less than one minute on a single desktop computer. GraphCast’s accuracy significantly beats current weather systems on 90% of 1,380 metrics. The AI is also better at forecasting severe weather events, including extreme ...
4. Using AI to recycle more waste. Another AI system is helping to tackle climate change by making waste management more efficient. Waste is a big producer of methane and is responsible for 16% of global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, according to the United States Environmental Protection Agency.
While the disruptive potential of these technologies is quite straightforward, and given the tremendous economic consequences of climate change, the development of the IoT will be also positive for the following, more subtle reasons: 1. It will also involve less “bankable” sectors, such as forestry and biodiversity protection, which usually ...
The worst-case scenario would see people fleeing from the impacts of climate change account for nearly a quarter of all internal migrants in the region by 2050. The dark red in the excerpt below represents average temperatures from June through August equal to 38°C (100.4°F) and above. New Delhi, a city of about 22 million people where air ...
Innovative solutions such as floating homes, flood relief channels, sponge cities and AI-powered flood forecasting are helping mitigate flood risks around the world. Technology and nature-based approaches offer sustainable and adaptable ways to address the growing threat of floods. The World Economic Forum’s Global Risks Report 2024 ...
The mountainous Kingdom of Bhutan was the first carbon-negative country in the world but lives under the constant threat of climate change. Its glaciers are melting fast as temperatures rise, raising water levels in the glacial lakes and magnifying the risk of an outburst flood. The world’s major carbon emitters must consider accelerated ...