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Cooling down urban campuses: Can AI do it in a sustainable way?
Extreme heat is making air conditioning a necessity. For commercial offices and large-scale city campuses, the use of artificial intelligence and demand response-ready cooling systems could promise efficiency gains.
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From gold to green: Can the Paris 2024 Olympics slash emissions?
Organisers of the Paris Games have pledged to cut planet-heating emissions in half but how will they deliver on this ambition?
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To prepare for climate-fuelled floods and heat, Bangladesh's garment factories are using new data sources, including worker input.
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