RD-11.15-16.2022-Fernandez

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November 16, 2022
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    As we head toward exceeding 1.5 degrees C of average global warming within a few years, serious efforts to achieve real sustainability are emerging. Industry and business are now broadly aware of the mounting climate loss and damage, as well as the novel opportunities brought about by the Anthropocene. To some, the present reality of environmental apocalypse and unprecedented resource disruption suggest an inevitable existential threat to humans. Prof. Fernandez believes otherwise - that something more subtle and promising is arising from the call to reconsider the ways in which we satisfy our needs while not compromising the ability of future generations to satisfy theirs. In his position as director of the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, Fernandez has worked with dozens of companies on the question of what comes next, and especially how business can be positioned both for prosperity and planetary health. The circular economy, AI, carbon management, climate actions coupled to biodiversity loss reduction, close collaboration with researchers and more, are strategies that Fernandez will discuss.
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    As we head toward exceeding 1.5 degrees C of average global warming within a few years, serious efforts to achieve real sustainability are emerging. Industry and business are now broadly aware of the mounting climate loss and damage, as well as the novel opportunities brought about by the Anthropocene. To some, the present reality of environmental apocalypse and unprecedented resource disruption suggest an inevitable existential threat to humans. Prof. Fernandez believes otherwise - that something more subtle and promising is arising from the call to reconsider the ways in which we satisfy our needs while not compromising the ability of future generations to satisfy theirs. In his position as director of the MIT Environmental Solutions Initiative, Fernandez has worked with dozens of companies on the question of what comes next, and especially how business can be positioned both for prosperity and planetary health. The circular economy, AI, carbon management, climate actions coupled to biodiversity loss reduction, close collaboration with researchers and more, are strategies that Fernandez will discuss.
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