scholarly journals Regulating artificial-intelligence applications to achieve the sustainable development goals

2021 ◽  
Vol 2 (1) ◽  
Author(s):  
Hoe-Han Goh ◽  
Ricardo Vinuesa
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The People ◽  
Legal Implications ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Applications Of Ai

AbstractArtificial intelligence is producing a revolution with increasing impacts on the people, planet, and prosperity. This perspective illustrates some of the AI applications that can accelerate the achievement of the United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and highlights some of the considerations that could hinder the efforts towards them. In this context, we strongly support the development of an 18thSDG on digital technologies. This emphasizes the importance of establishing standard AI guidelines and regulations for the beneficial applications of AI. Such regulations should focus on concrete applications of AI, rather than generally on AI technology, to facilitate both AI development and enforceability of legal implications.

scholarly journals Artificial Intelligence-Driven Digital Technologies to the Implementation of the Sustainable Development Goals: A Perspective from Brazil and Portugal

2021 ◽  
Vol 13 (24) ◽  
pp. 13669
Author(s):  
Angélica Pigola ◽  
Priscila Rezende da Costa ◽  
Luísa Cagica Carvalho ◽  
Luciano Ferreira da Silva ◽  
Cláudia Terezinha Kniess ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Artificial Intelligence ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Digital Technologies ◽  
Three Dimensions ◽  
Test Analysis ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Agenda 2030 ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Levene Test

Innovativeness is a characteristic of digital technologies (DT), and they have been assuming an important role in economic, social, and environmental dimensions. Therefore, DT are relevant contributors for sustainable development goal (SDG) achievements. This study aims to compare the preference for artificial intelligence-driven digital technologies (AI-Driven DT) to achieve SDGs in Brazil and Portugal. An independent sample t-test analysis and Levene test are performed to identify potential artificial intelligence-driven digital technologies (AI-Driven DT) as favorable facilitators for SDG achievements in Brazil and Portugal. Based on the findings, a broader analysis is provided, to (i) indicate potential favorable SDGs, (ii) discuss differences between the countries in AI-Driven DT preferences in each SDG, and (iii) make recommendations for potential technologies that could receive more attention and investments in both regions to make emergent digital technologies succeed, with a particular emphasis on cleaner production. The analysis is organized into three dimensions: economic, social, and environment. At the end, a closing discussion is provided about the key guidelines and prospects that could be adopted to keep a strong and positive shift of AI-Driven DT developments and applications towards fully supporting the attainment of the SDG of United Nations Organization (ONU) Agenda 2030.

Outsider Antitrust

2018 ◽  
Author(s):  
Eleanor M Fox
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Competition Law ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
World Community ◽  
The People ◽  
The World ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Environmentally Sound

The United Nations has published the Sustainable Development Goals, which it aspires to achieve by 2030. The goals aspire to end poverty and hunger, build dignity, and create an inclusive, safe, and environmentally sound society. To much of the world community, markets are the problem, not the solution. This chapter argues the contrary; namely, that markets properly harnessed to work for development and for the people are an essential prong in the plan to end poverty, hunger, and exclusion by empowering people to help themselves. It shows how Competition Law in the service of markets helps to achieve these goals.

scholarly journals United Nations' sustainable development goals review: Dual analysis of Romania and Denmark

2020 ◽  
Vol 67 (4) ◽  
pp. 1309-1336
Author(s):  
Vlad Turcea
Keyword(s):  
European Union ◽  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Action Plan ◽  
Investment Behavior ◽  
The European Union ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Dual Analysis ◽  
Development Goals

The present paper aims to highlight the discrepancies between two countries of the European Union, Romania and Denmark, in the perspective of the Sustainable Development Goals. As Denmark is seen as a primer European and Global nation in achieving the United Nations' targets, Romania can use this example as a guideline on how to act and to obtain the most notable results. The article proposes some key principles that Romanians could follow in order to successfully fulfill the 2030 Action Plan having, as an example, the strategies and indicators reached by Denmark. The current work paper is structured as a review of the two reports that voluntarily summarize the situation of the Sustainable Development Goals in each state, followed by a statistical analysis of investment behavior and concluded with an analysis of the most notable differences between the states based on the dataset published by Eurostat.

scholarly journals Innocampus Explora: Una aproximación multidisciplinar a la problemática ambiental

2020 ◽  
Author(s):  
Núria Garro ◽  
Jose Moros-Gregorio ◽  
Alejandro Quílez-Asensio ◽  
Daniel Jiménez-Romero ◽  
Ana Blas-Medina ◽  
...  
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Nuclear Energy ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Environmental Issues ◽  
Work Team ◽  
Cross Sectional ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Innovation Project ◽  
Development Goals

We present the activities of the Innocampus Explora innovation project developed on the Burjassot-Paterna campus of the Universitat de València and whose main objective is to show the interrelation between the different scientific and technical degrees on campus. In this year, the work team made up of students and professors from all the faculties and schools of the Burjassot-Paterna campus, have carried out activities around environmental issues. A cross-sectional and interdisciplinary vision of the problems of the uses of plastic and nuclear energy that link with several of the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) dictated by the United Nations. With the development of this project we contribute to quality transversal training for all participating students.

THE V.I. VERNADSKY FOUNDATION: EDUCATING, DEVELOPING, ACTING

2021 ◽  
Vol 43 (4) ◽  
pp. 495-503
Author(s):  
Olga Pliamina
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
Environmental Education ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Educational Practices ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Previous Decade ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Main Factors ◽  
Ecological Culture

The article discusses the best educational practices of the V.I. Vernadsky Non-governmental Ecological Foundation (the V.I. Vernadsky Foundation), based on Vernadsky’s doctrine of the noosphere. The V.I. Vernadsky Foundation has been working on the environmental education of Russian citizens for more than a quarter of a century. Since the previous decade, the issue of the Sustainable Development Goals adopted by the United Nations (the SDGs) has been an integral part of most of the V.I. Vernadsky Foundation’s programs and projects. The article presents possible ways of creating incentives for contributing to the development of ecological culture across the population of our country. The necessity of greening the consciousness of the population has been proven, which implies an unconditional understanding of the need to introduce environmental ideas into all spheres of life. The main factors of the adolescents’ interest in ecology and the major directions of attracting a youth audience to environmental activities and building an eco-oriented lifestyle model have been determined.

scholarly journals Egypt Within the Sustainable Development Goals One and Two of the United Nations: Overview and Recommendations Thereof

2020 ◽  
Vol 11 (5) ◽  
pp. 420
Author(s):  
Noura Abdel Maksoud Eissa
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Policy Recommendations ◽  
Community Capacity Building ◽  
Actual Performance ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
The Poor ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Zero Hunger

The objective of this article is to (1) posit indicators to measure the performance of Egypt in achieving United Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals one, to end poverty in all its forms and two, zero hunger, and (2) develop policy recommendations with regards to reducing poverty. Research methods include a systematic macro-process, general to narrow analysis, offering indicators and policy recommendations for governments to follow in achieving the sustainable development goals on poverty. The article is significant since it links between macroeconomics of poverty, an analysis of the quality and quantity of research conducted on the topic, the poor economics individual perspective, examples of pre and post-covid sustainable development goals one and two actual performance. Conclusions convey that poverty alleviation requires a combined public, private, and institutional collaboration to enhance the poor community capacity building, domestic resource mobilization techniques, efficient resource allocation and an awareness of the importance of implementing the sustainable development goals. 

scholarly journals The Idea of Universality in the Sustainable Development Goals

2015 ◽  
Vol 29 (2) ◽  
pp. 203-222 ◽  
Author(s):  
Graham Long
Keyword(s):  
Sustainable Development ◽  
United Nations ◽  
Sustainable Development Goals ◽  
Final Section ◽  
Burden Sharing ◽  
The Sustainable Development ◽  
Guiding Principle ◽  
Development Goals ◽  
Normative Significance ◽  
Current Stage

A new set of “Sustainable Development Goals” (SDGs) are currently being negotiated at the United Nations, and there is a widespread consensus that these goals must be “universal.” This article analyses what universality might mean in this context, and its normative significance as a guiding principle for the goals. After briefly introducing the Sustainable Development Goals as found in the current stage of the negotiations, thearticle proceeds in three sections that consider three different senses of universality. In the first, I outline the most intuitive or straightforward sense of universality as a claim about the scope of the goals, with limited import for the content. In the second section, I expand on this idea by noting a widespread understanding of the content of the goals which might also be thought universal and which reflects a moral cosmopolitan constraint on the ambition of each goal. Universality is paired with, and contrasted against, the need fordifferentiation. In the final section, I examine this idea of differentiation, asking how and how far, the goals should allow for country context. From this discussion arises a third account of universality which incorporates a demand for fair burden-sharing. I consider, and ultimately caution against, this account of universality, even though the demand forfairness is crucial in its own right.

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