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MENA Should See AI Data Centres for Sustainability Needs
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The World Economic Forum (WEF) has called for Middle East and North Africa (MENA) countries to classify artificial intelligence (AI) data centres as “critical dynamic loads”.
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Urban Planning Can Benefit from AI: Opportunities Ahead
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AI will permeate urban planning as it has in other forms of intellectual work, including generating urban design forms. Exploring its opportunities and challenges, a new paper by the United Nations Economic Commission for Europe (UNECE) notes that AI can widen access to high-quality planning support . . .
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Countries Most Vulnerable to Fossil Fuel Phaseout Insights
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A study by the Potsdam Institute for Climate Impact Research (PIK), published in Nature Sustainability, now shows, for 169 countries worldwide, how the fight against global heating affects national assets—and what geopolitical challenges and opportunities arise as a result.
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Will AI Be Good or Bad for Future Climate Solutions?
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Is AI a climate change villain, whose insatiable hunger for electricity will roast the planet? Or will it help predict where the next climate disaster will strike and what to do about it?
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The Crises We Face Today Are Far Beyond Established Norms
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Mahmoud Mohieldin has spent much of his career mobilising financing to tackle the world’s greatest development challenges. A former senior executive at the World Bank and at the International Monetary Fund, he became the UN secretary-general’s special envoy on financing the 2030 Agenda in 2020, just as the Covid-19 pandemic began and further derailed progress towards the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs).
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IPCC Is Under Pressure and Vulnerable Nations Fear Delay
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Scientists are under pressure from some petro-states and major developing countries to delay publication of a key global climate report, despite pleas from vulnerable countries worried that postponement could spell disaster for them.
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How Regenerative Architecture Is Actively Healing the Environment
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Nature-based systems provide practical mechanisms for achieving this objective. Bioswales, rain gardens, constructed wetlands, permeable paving, and restored stream corridors slow runoff while supporting filtration and infiltration are only a few amongst a infinitisimal variety of other solutions . . .
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AI Legislation ‘Must Keep Pace with Technological Changes’
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Bahrain could look into international experience to build a flexible legal framework for artificial intelligence, labelled nowadays as super intelligence by the Americans, that protects people and addresses and acknowledges emerging risks without holding back innovation . . .
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Beijing’s Wisdom in Urban Governance: Key Insights
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As cities around the world embrace artificial intelligence, big data and digital platforms, the idea of the “smart city” is often associated with sensors, algorithms and connected infrastructure.
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