Remarks to the National Sustainability Society
Below are condensed remarks from Jeremy Tamanini's presentation on the environmental footprint of AI systems, delivered September 10, 2024 at the National Sustainability Society at the University of Washington. Today I...
The AI Elephant in the Room
2023 was the year of AI. The launch of ChatGPT was both highly publicized and highly accessible, giving the general public a clear way to understand the utility of AI applications in everyday life. This precipitated a...
What Experts Say on Breaking the 2020s Green Impasse
In early 2020, faced with Covid-19 lockdown, we launched a survey. The idea was to leverage the 5,000+ database of sustainability experts generated from the Global Green Economy Index to ask a simple question: how can...
How to Work With Satellite-Based Sustainability Data
by Jeremy Tamanini (Founder, Dual Citizen LLC) Data. It is a word we hear a lot of in sustainability circles. Big data. Climate data. Data analytics. Data-driven insights. Data collection. Satellite-based data. Less...
Post-COP28 Reality Check
One day after the conclusion of COP28 in Dubai, we remain stuck in a paradox: people, products & policies to address the climate crisis are accelerating while GHG emissions, social inequity, and environmental...
AI Everywhere: Tangible Applications for Sustainability Teams
by Jeremy Tamanini (Founder, Dual Citizen LLC) Climate Week 2023 in New York featured a series of riveting conversations around new AI applications with potential to accelerate climate action. The intersection of...
A Summer Breakthrough
This summer, we sense something shifting in the global sustainability movement. The urgency of the climate crisis is resonating more. And scrutiny of proposed solutions is sharper. But why? We believe that data and...
Net Zero Pledges: Green Progress or Greenwashing?
Sustainability buzzwords sometimes feel like topics trending on Twitter: top of mind one day and nearly forgotten the next.Consider the case of net-zero pledges, announced by a growing number of countries and companies...
Can AI & Machine Learning Accelerate a 2020s Green Breakthrough?
We are pleased to release a new Insight today: "Can AI & Machine Learning Accelerate a 2020s Green Breakthrough?" The Insight is authored by our strategic advisor Karuna Ramakrishnan and builds on research over the past...
Results from the “Climate Moment 2020” Modeling
Since the Paris Climate Conference in 2015, we have been working with KnowlEdge srl to track country progress towards emission reduction targets set at COP21. As the 5-year anniversary of COP21 approaches, we...