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How Companies Can Mitigate AI’s Growing Environmental Footprint

Harvard Business

By 2030, AI’s power demand is expected to rise by 160%. However, adopting more sustainable practices, such as utilizing foundation models, optimizing data processing locations, investing in energy-efficient processors, and leveraging open-source collaborations, can help mitigate these effects.

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Sustainable Supply Chains Reduce Environmental Footprint

Tom Spencer

For example, Unilever is working towards making all of its plastic packaging recyclable, reusable, or compostable by 2030. Companies are adopting various strategies to make their logistics more efficient and environmentally friendly. The company is also investing in refillable packaging systems to cut down on single-use plastics.

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From Lab to C-Suite: The Future of Life Sciences Consulting

Tom Spencer

It is predicted that AI-powered healthcare will become a $188 billion industry by 2030. Generalist firms, such as McKinsey, Deloitte and BCG, also have life sciences practices but generally provide advice to support the growth and efficiency of key business functions as well as advising on high level business strategy.

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Technology Is Changing Transportation, and Cities Should Adapt

Harvard Business

McKinsey and Bloomberg New Energy Finance have estimated that in 50 metropolitan areas worldwide, a rapid transition to advanced mobility systems could yield $600 billion in societal benefits through 2030. billion per year by 2030. The shift to next-generation mobility systems, however, won’t be easy for cities to manage.

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Sustainability: The Growing Importance of ESG Metrics

Tom Spencer

Environmental Metrics: These measure a company’s impact on the planet, including emissions, energy efficiency, waste management, water usage, and sustainability of the supply chain. ESG metrics provide a framework for evaluating business performance along three dimensions.

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Saving the Planet from Ecological Disaster Is a $12 Trillion Opportunity

Harvard Business

How can we create $12 trillion a year in market opportunities by 2030? Their assumption: if we do more of what we have been doing, but a little bit faster and a little better, we can deliver many – if not most – of the goals by the target date of 2030. How about by meeting the UN’s Sustainable Development Goals?

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The Scale of the Climate Catastrophe Will Depend on What Businesses Do Over the Next Decade

Harvard Business

” We will need to cut CO2 emissions by 45% from 2010 levels by 2030, the report says, and get to no emissions by 2050. As soon as the 2016 election was over, an auto industry group asked the new administration to give them some more wiggle room on aggressive fuel efficiency standards established by the Obama administration.

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