SDG goal #13: Climate action

- This is a browser walkthrough, of sustainable development Goal number 13, which focuses on climate action. If you go ahead and scroll towards the bottom, you'll be able to see an overview of this goal. The world's climate is changing. The cause is well understood. Emissions of greenhouse gases. Climate change threatens to undo progress in nearly every area of human development. It poses substantial risks to our food production, water supplies, ecosystems, and much more. The goal here, is to take urgent action, to combat climate change and its impacts. Internet of Things, AI, ML and Big data are particularly instrumental in climate change reduction, and climate impact mitigation, by enabling sensor-based monitoring, data analytics, and data sharing. The manufacture, distribution, and use of products, as well as management of the resulting waste, all result into greenhouse gas emissions. Waste management is a good example of the convergence of these three technologies. IT sensors can be placed to track garbage trucks, enabling real time information, and placed in garbage bins to enable real time information for city operators. Data that will be collected from these sensors will be run through AI and ML prediction models. In order to determine optimization routes, for garbage trucks based on real time information that will be transferred from the connected bins. This, in turn, will allow operators to maximize efficiency, lower overhead costs, such as reducing fuel consumption, maintain air quality, and reduce man and machine hours. After this data has been collected, it will then be shared across the community surrounding the area, in order to determine which garbage units are full, and where they should dispose of their trash. This automated waste segregation contributes to less waste going to landfills, less garbage overflows, thereby, supporting the environment. Let's take a look at this interactive stimulator around climate change scenarios, and how it'll affect us moving forward. This is a browser walkthrough of En-ROAD, which is an interactive simulator built by the MIT Sloan Sustainability Initiative. This interactive stimulator, helps business leaders and policy makers, build support for strategies to address climate change through testing the simulator for different scenarios. To walk through this interactive stimulator as a business leader, you'll be able to modify all of these results, and even dig deeper to learn what each one of these actually means. Based on these results, you'll be able to visualize baseline versus current scenario of these improvements. To wrap this up, as a business leader, here are three areas to think about. First, is acknowledging the risks. Climate impacts have already begun to affect business facilities, operations, and supply chains. Whatever one might think about the causes of climate change, these effects will get worse over time. All risks should be identified and assessed, so they can be properly considered. Second, is plan and resource for avoiding climate risk. A critical aspect of advanced planning is to protect future investments. Any significant investment in new infrastructure, should include a thorough climate vulnerability assessment of the proposed location. And finally, invest in energy efficiency and renewable energy to save costs. Investments in products and technologies can provide near term savings and in the long term, enable climate adaptation and mitigation. Implementing a green energy business case can be immediate, while the financial upside and benefits of environmental stability, will grow over time due to climate risk.