AI for Sustainability: Arresting Climate Change, Building a Robust Circular Economy

As the world races ahead economically, socially, and technologically, the climate and the environment that feeds our progress are also changing, and not for better. To put that in perspective, the 2021 Earth Overshoot Day – the day of the year when the cumulative demand of ecological supplies in the form of environmental resources and services exceeds what the Earth can generate in a year – was as early as July 29.