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Building Community-Centered AI Collaborations

Stanford Social Innovation

By collaborating with a broader set of partnersincluding ethicists, community groups, and academic institutionsnonprofits can better safeguard their ethical commitments. Academic partnerships can also offer nonprofits access to specialized knowledge and tools that are often unavailable in commercial AI offerings.

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Collaboration Across Social Boundaries: A Practical Guide

Stanford Social Innovation

Sometimes these social boundaries are academic disciplines. The task at hand goes beyond the academic concept of interdisciplinarity , which is often used as a semantic shortcut to signify broader collaborations across professional and social boundaries. In other cases, they are organizations, industries, professions, or cultures.

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Shifting the Burden of Proof: Why It's Now On the Fossil Fuel Industry to Defend Itself

3BL Media

Climate Scientists and Advocates Have Satisfied Their Burden of Proof. For a long time in America, society put the climate change burden of proof on those who have raised concerns about it. of academic papers expressing a view on human-caused climate change agreed that it was real, and that humans were the cause.

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Top Energy Transition Conferences to Attend (Virtually or In-Person) in 2022

3BL Media

Between the climate crisis and continued interruptions in the global energy supply chain, an increasing number of companies and governments are preparing to transition to more sustainable and diversified energy systems. Collaboration is vital on this all-encompassing initiative. NTNU Energy Transition Conference 2022.

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Mindset Shift

Chris Hall

Investment consultants have taken some things at face value, which in one sense is understandable – they’re not academics. Scientists and academics live in silos. “The trouble is thar people in finance think economists have done the right thing and are trusting their estimates – but they couldn’t be more wrong,” said Keen.

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New Initiative Aims to Reinvigorate Push to 1.5°C

Chris Hall

The Climate Action Coalition wants to link business and finance, NGOs, academics and governments to accelerate climate action. The world’s 2030 climate goals are still within reach, but time is running out and solutions must be sought with renewed vigour over the next five years.

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Cisco Foundation Grantee Uses Data To Fight Climate Change and Rebuild Healthy Forests

3BL Media

Their team is comprised of elite tech industry product managers, software engineers, and data scientists, along with remote-sensing experts, foresters, ecologists, and academics all united by one purpose – to mitigate the devastating impacts of climate change on our planet and our people.