Guest: Ricardo Vinuesa, Associate Professor at KTH Royal Institute of Technology (Sweden) & Lead Faculty at the KTH Climate Action Centre
Theme: Artificial Intelligence, Climate Action, and the Future of Sustainability
In this episode, we sit down with Ricardo Vinuesa, lead author of the landmark Nature Communications study analyzing AI’s impact on all 17 UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). Ricardo shares deep insights into how AI can help address global sustainability challenges—but also where it can go wrong.
🎧 Listen to explore:
• How AI enables new capabilities for clean energy, climate modeling, and pollution control
• Why explainability, transparency, and ethical design are key to building trustworthy AI
• Which SDGs are most positively and negatively impacted by AI, according to research
• How AI could help redefine the sustainability agenda beyond 2030
• What academia, governments, and the private sector must do to ensure AI supports both people and planet
💡 “AI allows us to do things that weren’t possible before—like optimizing air pollution flows across a city, or matching renewable energy supply with demand. But if not distributedequitably, it risks deepening existing inequalities.” – Ricardo Vinuesa
The Sustainable Living Podcast (SLP) is launching its ninth season – AI for a Sustainable Future, a special editorial series that explores how Artificial Intelligence (AI) is shaping a greener and more equitable future. Produced in collaboration with the Embassy of Sweden in Romania, the founding partner of the Sustainable Living Podcast, this season brings forward vitalconversations about innovation, responsibility, and the impact of technology on education, the environment, and society.
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