🎉 Exciting news! @UCalgary is the new host of SDSN Canada starting July 1, 2024, continuing the mission to advance the Sustainable Development Goals nationwide! 🌍🎓 #Sustainability#SDGs#UCalgary
For more details, visit: bit.ly/4eqvIAS
🍁#Canada ranked 25th in the Sustainable Development Report (#SDR2024).
We are making progress with SDG 11: #SustainableCities & Communities☀️ but still see some major challenges ahead with SDG 13: #ClimateAction.🌎
Read the full report and let us know what you think!🤔
📣The 2024 Sustainable Development Report (#SDR2024) is out now, revealing that on average, globally, only 16% of the #SDG targets are on track to be achieved by 2030.
👉 Learn more about how we can restore global progress on the #SDGs: dashboards.sdgindex.org
Nous apprécions tous ceux qui ont rejoint la conférence de la semaine dernière.🌟Il est important de réfléchir aux questions de #DéveloppementDurable que nous avons explorées lors de la Journée Mondiale de l'Environnement et tous les jours suivants.😉
We appreciate everyone who joined last week's conference & our fantastic team of organizers.🌟
Reflecting on the #SustainableDevelopment issues we explored is important on #WorldEnvironmentDay & every day after.😉 Stay tuned for our full report!
"We cannot solely rely on #AI models…We need to avoid biases due to not updating the models… And we have to keep checks and balances”
- Keegan Pinto, Associate, @ArcternVC
"The pace of change is making it difficult for us to adapt to the just transition that we need." ⚖️🌱⚙️
Tyler Hamilton, Senior Director – Clean Technologies @MaRSDD
As host and a founding institution of @SDSNCanada, #UWaterloo is proud to bring together organizations & individuals for @TogetherEnsemb to explore Canada’s toughest sustainable development challenges. Thanks to all attendees for your leadership & collaboration.
“#AI can be used by old industries to perpetuate their model… We need to be careful about (that).”
- Tyler Hamilton, Senior Director – Clean Technologies @MaRSDD
"#AI is increasing productivity, but the question is what will happen to the people whose jobs are being displaced? What will the first jobs for young people be in the future?"
- Salman Qadir, Associate Principal, Sustainability Venture Fund, BDC
“#AI can help us to better understand carbon capture, fill gaps in our knowledge, and help us prepare for the future, but it does not necessarily reduce the emissions (on its own).”
- Tyler Hamilton, Senior Director – Clean Technologies @MaRSDD
“#AI has put a huge strain on the need for electricity… What we are moving towards is a virtual power plant… AI will help us do that.”
- Salman Qadir, Associate Principal, Sustainability Venture Fund, BDC
Looking forward to hearing from more leading voices in sustainability at #TogetherEnsemble Day 2 in Waterloo! Our Sustainability and Inclusion Specialist Leslie is on site, but you can tune in to streamed sessions on their website! togetherensemble.ca
“Instead of focusing on inputs… focus on outputs as a target”🎯
- @professor_ajay, Economist and Professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management Founder of the Creative Destruction Lab
“The work on these behavioural models today are like where we were with language models in 2018.” 🤖
- @professor_ajay, Economist and Professor at the University of Toronto’s Rotman School of Management Founder of the Creative Destruction Lab
"We need to tell the founders of companies what it means to be responsible in terms of building products."
- Kevin Tuer, Chief Technology Officer, @Communitech ⚙️🤖🌐