Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability

Artificial Intelligence for Sustainability

One significant benefit of artificial intelligence systems is the ability to help improve sustainable practices across many different fields. In many fields AI can help improve efficiency of operations, decrease cost of production, monitor important variables, and help solve challenging problems. The three main aspects of AI helping sustainability that this website will explore are through resource management, climate monitoring and the supply chain.

Artificial Intelligence can help resource management by predicting resource needs for a project, and assigning tools and resources in the most efficient ways possible. AI may help climate monitoring by noticing important changes within the environment. Explore the following to learn more about how AI can help the enviroment.

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AI helping the Supply Chain

The use of artificial intelligence in the supply chain drastically improves planning, production, and management in many different ways. The ability of AI to process imense supplies of data allows it to predict trends and changes in the market, and improve decision making and efficiency of operations. This helps it to reduce waste and lower costs within the supply chain of any market. AI can also help optimize routes within the supply chain, minimize shortages, and help automate tasks. This helps increase sustainability by optimizing truck loads and truck routes to lower their carbon footprint. (IBM)

There are many compaines already implementing and seeing the benefits of using AI in supply chain management. In addition to helping increase sustainability, AI in the supply chain improves customer experience by helping to track packages, increase reliability, and provide more information about processes.

AI Helping Resource Management

AI is significantly impacting resource management in a variety of ways. AI is helping to enhance resource allocations by making smart recommendations by analyzing data and making predictions, and by optimizing resouce utilization by analyzing what resources are being inefficiently used. AI can also automize a various number of tasks, and do certain tasks more accurately than before, such as scheduling, reporting and resource tracking which minimizes wastes in these areas. Another benefit of AI is by analyzing potential risks before they happen so there is less waste. (CIO Dive)

AI Climate Monitoring

Artificial Intelligence has the ability to monitor amounts of information that have never been possible before. The ability to monitor and process this amount of information allows AI to help make predictions about the future, including weather and climate predictions. This can help us prepare for any future climate events, as well as virtually experiment with various potential solutions to find the most effective. This has enormous benefits towards humanities fight on climate change. Continue scrolling to learn more.

Disaster and Iceberg Melting Tracking

As the amount of extreme weather events increase due to climate change, AI can help us to make predictions and provide us with sustainable development measures to reduce risks. For example, in areas that are in danger to landslides, AI mapping helps to plan and prepare for land development that reduces the risks. (United Nations News)

Artificial Intelligence can also measure and track changes in icebergs up to 10,000 times faster than humans. The ability to track icebergs melting so quickly helps scientists understand the amount of water getting released into the ocean and how quickly it is happening. This helps us to better prepare and to know how to take precautionary measures. (Gavi)

Predicting Climates

AI is also being used in African countries to help predict weather patterns so various communities can plan adaptations to mitigate its impact. In these situations, AI can also help improve access to clean energy, and proper waste management systems, and guide reforestation. (Gavi)

Finding Ocean Trash

The Ocean CleanUp is a major company based out of the Netherlands that is using AI to track and find ocean litter to help them gather it and remove it from the water. Previous methods used very inefficient trawlers and airplanes to find garbage throughout the ocean.

Reducing Carbon Emissions

In various different ways, AI is being used to decarbonize various common practices, including in metal and mining, oil, and gas industries. AI can also help increase efficiency of renewable energy production and optimize energy grids. The United Nations believes this will help achieve their goal for affordable and clean energy for all. (United Nations News) Additionally, Companies have developed AI that can track emissions using satellite imagery. This can help keep large companies accountable for their emmisions. (Gavi)