THE BRIEF
Robust conversations need to happen at an operational and board level . How far ahead of the curve does the C-suite want to be ? What ’ s your risk appetite ?
Steve Varley Global Vice Chair – Sustainability , Ernst & Young
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5.5mn
people from 157 countries sign a petition demanding a strong Global Ocean Treaty at the UN .
US AND EU PARTNERSHIP TO USE AI TO IMPROVE CLIMATE FORECASTING
The rice breeding and genetics community are close , and we share a common goal : to help smallholder farmers grow rice in a manner that will alleviate challenges and enhance food security
Dr . Pamela Ronald Professor , Plant Pathologist , Geneticist , Department of Plant Pathology and Genome Center , University of California , Davis
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The two major trends in sustainability for 2023 ? The deployment of AI and government intervention & investment . Both themes overlapped in the recent announcement of a partnership between the US and the EU – the two biggest economic blocks of the Western world – to work together to speed up the use of AI for agriculture , healthcare , and climate forecasting .
The administrative arrangement will bring together experts from across the US and Europe to further research AI , computing , and related privacy-protecting technologies , as underscored in the US-EU Trade and Technology Council ( TTC ) commitment , which in December outlined a Joint Roadmap on Evaluation and Measurement Tools intended to inform the TTC on the approach to AI risk management and trustworthy AI on both sides of the Atlantic .
16 April 2023