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(Most) Everything Can Be Done Better with AI 

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) can enhance a wide range of activities and processes by improving efficiency, accuracy, and decision-making. Here’s a breakdown of how AI can contribute across various domains: Sustainability    – Energy: AI can optimize energy consumption in homes, businesses, and cities by analyzing usage patterns and automating energy-efficient adjustments.    – Agriculture: AI can monitor crop health, forecast weather … Read more

AI in the Circular Economy

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) plays a significant role in driving and optimizing the circular economy by enhancing sustainability and resource efficiency. The circular economy is a model focused on minimizing waste and making the most of resources by promoting reuse, recycling, and regeneration of products and materials.Here are several key areas where AI contributes to the circular economy: … Read more

Artificial Intelligence in Carbon Utilization

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Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play a significant role in carbon utilization by optimizing processes, improving efficiency, and enabling new approaches to capture, convert, and reuse carbon dioxide (CO₂). Here are a few ways AI can be leveraged for carbon utilization: Carbon Capture Optimization AI can optimize the process of capturing CO₂ from industrial emissions or … Read more

Artificial Intelligence Digital Product Passport 

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An Artificial Intelligence (AI) Digital Product Passport (DPP) is a digital system designed to track and store essential information about a product throughout its lifecycle, often with the aid of AI technologies.  A DPP offers transparency, traceability, and efficiency for manufacturers, consumers, and regulators by capturing product data such as materials used, environmental impacts, repair history, recycling … Read more

Green Technology

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“Solar and Battery Storage to Make Up 81% of New U.S. Electric-Generating Capacity in 2024.” -U.S. Energy Information Administration.  Green technology is an umbrella term that describes the use of technology and science to create products and services that are environmentally friendly. Green tech is related to cleantech, which specifically refers to products or services … Read more

Environmental Technology

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Environmental technology is the application of science to address environmental challenges through conservation and the mitigation of human impact to the environment. It broadly includes all technologies that help the environment and improving environmental health. It includes technologies for pollution control, waste management, and remediation of environmental damage, such as air and water purification systems or … Read more

Sustainable Technology 

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Meet the needs of the present without compromising the ability of future generations to meet their own needs. Reducing environmental impacts, conserving resources, and promoting long-term ecological balance while supporting economic growth and social well-being. Technology that not only reduce environmental impact but also consider long-term ecological balance, economic viability, and social responsibility. Sustainable technology … Read more

Green, Environmental, and Sustainable Technology: What’s the Difference?

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The terms “green technology”, “environmental technology”, and “sustainable technology” are often used interchangeably, but they have key differences with distinct focuses. Green Technology refers to technology that is specifically designed to reduce or reverse the effects of human activity on the environment. It emphasizes minimizing waste, reducing emissions, conserving energy, and using renewable resources. Examples include: Environmental Technology is a broad term … Read more

Eco-Innovation for Business: Adoption and Diffusion

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Eco-innovation is a business approach which promotes sustainability throughout the entire life cycle of a product, while also boosting a company’s performance and competitiveness.  It can help businesses access new and expanding markets, increase productivity, attract new investment, increase profitability across the value chain, and help stay ahead of regulations and standards. Eco-innovation is the development of … Read more

Ecolabeling Governance and Standards 

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Ecolabels and green stickers are labeling systems for food and consumer products. The use of ecolabels is voluntary, whereas green stickers are mandated by law; for example, in North America major appliances and automobiles use Energy Star.  They are a form of sustainability measurement directed at consumers, intended to make it easy to take environmental concerns into account when … Read more

Sustainable Development Goals

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The 2030 Agenda for Sustainable Development, adopted by all United Nations Member States in 2015, provides a shared blueprint for peace and prosperity for people and the planet, now and into the future.  They recognize that ending poverty and other deprivations must go hand-in-hand with strategies that improve health and education, reduce inequality, and spur economic growth – all while … Read more

Sustainability Transition and Action Principles

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The European Environment Agency defines a sustainability transition as: “a fundamental and wide-ranging transformation of a socio-technical system towards a more sustainable configuration that helps alleviate persistent problems such as climate change, pollution, biodiversity loss or resource scarcities.” The concept of sustainability transitions is like the concept of energy transitions. According to the EEA, sustainability … Read more