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Harnessing Data to Combat Climate Change: IBM’s Environmental Intelligence Leads the Charge

Friday, December 6th, 2024

In the face of escalating environmental challenges, businesses are under mounting pressure to adopt sustainable practices and navigate the complexities of climate resilience. IBM, long recognized as a pioneer in leveraging technology to address global issues, has introduced the Environmental Intelligence platform, a groundbreaking toolkit designed to empower organizations with the data and analytics needed to meet these demands head-on.

Aditya Khosla, Principal Product Manager at IBM, recently shared insights into the platform’s transformative potential. Speaking about the growing urgency for actionable data, Khosla emphasized how essential it is for businesses to integrate diverse environmental datasets into their operations. “To respond effectively to today’s environmental challenges, businesses need tools that seamlessly integrate datasets like weather patterns, emissions data, and satellite imagery into their decision-making processes,” he explained. IBM Environmental Intelligence embodies this vision, consolidating public and commercial datasets into a unified, user-friendly interface. This allows developers and data scientists to spend less time processing raw data and more time innovating. By combining geospatial, climate, and emissions data into one cohesive platform, IBM has removed many of the traditional barriers to implementing advanced environmental solutions.

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Eye on Earth Summit held in Abu Dhabi this week

Tuesday, December 13th, 2011

An important geospatial data event that commenced yesterday in Abu Dhabi is the Eye on Earth Abu Dhabi 2011 Summit and Exhibition, a joint initiative of the Government of Abu Dhabi and the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP), opened today at the Abu Dhabi National Exhibition Centre. The Summit has convened leaders from the worldwide geospatial data movement to outline a roadmap for the better integration of the world’s flood of environmental and societal data for the benefit of all, and especially of developing economies.

The patron for this event is His Highness Sheikh Khalifa Bin Zayed Al Nahyan, President of the United Arab Emirates. The Eye on Earth Abu Dhabi 2011 Summit & Exhibition is hosted by Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi (EAD), facilitated by Abu Dhabi Global Environmental Data Initiative (AGEDI) and held in partnership with the United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP).

At its opening Monday 12 December, H. E. Razan Khalifa Al Mubarak, the Secretary-General of Environment Agency – Abu Dhabi, said: “The reason we are all here today (is) safeguarding our environment for our future generations…This Summit is held in recognition that environmental and societal data should be collected in a concerted manner, at its source, made accessible and affordable and should be used to underpin reporting and support decision making in order to achieve sustainable development.”

The Eye on Earth Summit attracts those in global leadership of the environmental information movement, a group dedicated to maximizing and exposing the benefits of geospatial information to decision-makers worldwide.




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