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Experts from the World Resources Institute and Climate Policy Radar discuss biodiversity and climate change

Biodiversity loss and human impacts are becoming a key component in climate change conversations. Experts discuss their views on how biodiversity loss and climate change are also impacting the financial sector. The conversation was part of Insider's event "For a Better Future: Bridging Culture, Business, and Climate," which took place on Tuesday, April 18, 2023.

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Podcast: Totally Sust #3 - Using AI to better understand climate policy data

In the latest episode in TechMarketView's series of Totally Sust podcasts, SustainabilityViews’ lead analyst, Craig Wentworth, interviews Henry Franks (Chief Technology Officer at Climate Policy Radar) about how they're using AI to extract value and meaning from 100,000s pages of climate regulations and data the world over—and what uses this insight is being put to (and by whom).

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Tech for Good, Schmidt Futures and getting lost in the sauce: Alanna Flores

For the second instalment of our new series, introducing you to the brilliant people behind Climate Policy Radar, we spoke to Alanna Flores. Alanna spent the last 6 months working in Climate Policy Radar’s data science team as part of Schmidt Futures Technologists for Global Transformation, a programme designed to broaden the pool of technologists working for public benefit. As we bid Alanna farewell, we caught up with her about her time at Climate Policy Radar and the programme.

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PDF Parsing: Using AI to turn (messy) climate policy documents into (readable) structured data

PDFs were designed for creating and viewing flexibly formatted documents without the user having to worry about which device, operating system or browser they were using. This versatility revolutionised information sharing. Yet the lack of formatting constraints made extracting structured information nearly impossible. As most climate-relevant law and policy documents are PDFs, this presents a challenge to our goal of making them fully searchable.

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Events

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⬤ Upcoming events

London Climate Action Week: The Climate Innovation Forum, Wednesday 25th June

The Climate Innovation Forum returns for the seventh year as a flagship event of London Climate Action Week on Wednesday 25th June. Taking place in London’s Guildhall, this high-level event will bring together 2,000 business leaders, policy makers, investors and senior civil society representatives, to accelerate the speed and scale of our collective efforts in driving climate action.

Embracing the UK Government’s renewed climate ambitions, the Forum will be a key event to facilitate multistakeholder collaboration for increased action and impact on the Road to COP30. With 2025 marking 10 years since the adoption of the Paris Agreement and just five years until the critical deadline of 2030, it will focus on the practical steps required to keep 1.5ºC alive: unblocking delivery barriers, getting investment flowing where it’s needed, and sharing best practice that can be replicated at speed and scale.

Key Speakers Include:

  • Francesco La Camera, Director General, IRENA

  • Damilola Ogunbiyi, CEO and Special Representative of the UN Secretary-General for Sustainable Energy for All, and Co-Chair, UN-Energy.

  • Professor Piers Forster, Chair, Climate Change Committee

  • Hakima El Haite, former Minister of Environment for Morocco and President, Private Sector Pan African Alliance

  • Nick Mabey, Founder, London Climate Action Week

  • Noelia Garcia Nebra, Head of Sustainability, ISO

  • Lord Adair Turner, Chair, Energy Transition Commission

  • Faustine Delasalle, CEO, Mission Possible Partnership

  • Rt Hon Chris Skidmore, Chair, Climate Action Coalition

⬤ Past events