From bioacoustics capturing the sounds of the jungle, to myriad satellites sending images back from space, there is now a vast amount of environmental data that businesses can access as they seek to get to grips with their nature impacts.
Speaking at a recent conference, Drew Purves, head of nature at Google DeepMind, explained: “We’re carrying out experiments now with 100 million times more data than we were 20 years ago.”
This is far too much information for the human brain to comprehend, he continued, but “one of the areas where this recent AI revolution really excels … is extracting salient signals from a huge, complex datasets”.
This is something that businesses are increasingly being asked to do so. The EU’s Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD) has made double materiality assessments, which look at business’s risks and opportunities from both a financial and non-financial perspective, mandatory, meaning that many companies must now report on their nature impacts for the first time.
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