The United Nations Development Programme (UNDP) and NEC Corporation (NEC) have actually signed a Memorandum of Understanding (MOU) to promote the preservation of natural capital and actions to environment modification through using expert system (AI) and other digital innovations.
This MOU promotes cooperation towards the preservation and remediation of the natural surroundings and the awareness of sustainable regional neighborhoods by integrating UNDP’s understanding and networks in advancement help around the globe with NEC’s innovative digital innovations, consisting of AI.
In addition to resolving ecological obstacles through using digital innovations, the celebrations will likewise advance evaluations and research studies targeted at boosting the strength of AI and digital facilities, in addition to regional neighborhoods, through making use of ecological information.
The 2 companies will work together in the following locations:
- Development and dissemination of understanding for evaluating and enhancing the strength of AI and other digital innovations, digital facilities, and regional neighborhoods based upon ecological information.
- Assessment of and cooperation on using digital options that support nature-positive and climate-resilient advancement.
- Evaluation of methods towards understanding sustainable and resistant global supply chains for Japanese business, consisting of NEC, through cooperation with regional neighborhoods.
- Joint dissemination of details to promote using digital innovations that add to biodiversity preservation and environment modification steps.
- Constant discussion and cooperation to produce brand-new chances for cooperation and advance joint efforts.
As a preliminary location of cooperation under this MOU, the 2 companies will collectively prepare and distribute a white paper to examine, based upon ecological information, the durability of AI and digital facilities such as information centers, along with supply chains and surrounding regional neighborhoods, and to add to enhancing such strength.
In addition, they will go over possible kinds of cooperation through workshops on data-driven farming utilizing CropScope to support environment modification adjustment for coffee farmers in Ethiopia. As these efforts development, the 2 companies will continue to check out brand-new locations of cooperation.
Through this MOU, UNDP and NEC will promote the preservation of natural capital, consisting of biodiversity, and actions to environment modification while properly and efficiently making use of AI and other digital innovations, consequently adding to the sustainable advancement of nature and society.
Marcos Neto, UN Assistant Secretary-General and Director of UNDP’s Bureau for Policy and Programme Support
“Artificial intelligence can help address climate and environmental challenges, but developing countries need support to use it sustainably. By combining the United Nations Development Programme’s expertise and country presence with NEC Corporation’s technology, this partnership will bring solutions closer to communities and scale local impact.”
Shinichiro Ide, Corporate SVP, CBXO and Head of business Process Transformation Unit, NEC Corporation
“We are extremely happy to have actually participated in this Memorandum of Understanding with UNDP.
AI has remarkable power to gather and process huge quantities of advanced details and assistance human decision-making and action. While NEC has actually included this capacity into management change and company operations, we have actually likewise collected understanding connecting to the assessment of and decision-making on durability through using ecological information, based upon several years of ecological management and useful experience as a company enterprise. We are likewise handling the difficulty of examining complicated elements based upon the natural surroundings and social attributes that vary from area to area, allowing individuals to make data-driven choices that add to enhancing the strength of organizations and regional neighborhoods. By integrating UNDP’s understanding and networks with NEC’s useful competence, innovations, and service structure, we will develop brand-new worth and add to understanding a sustainable, nature-positive, and climate-resilient society.”
About the Related Webinar
As part of the efforts under this MOU, NEC and the International Institute for Socio-Economic Studies (IISE), an independent think tank of the NEC Group, will hold an online webinar with the cooperation of UNDP.
The webinar will welcome Mozaic Earth and LandPrint, acclaimed and finalist business in the “Nature Intelligence for Business Grand Challenge,” collectively arranged by UNDP, the Taskforce on Nature-related Financial Disclosures (TNFD), and Conservation X Labs. The webinar will present the current efforts that use ecological information, satellite information, and AI to equate nature-related dangers and chances in farming and forestry supply chains into company and financial investment choices. It will likewise go over the capacity for using nature-related information in management decision-making for business sustainability, TNFD, procurement, and financing specialists, in addition to banks and scientists.
- Date and Time: Thursday, 10 September 2026, 9:00– 10:30 (tentative)
- Format: Zoom Webinar (Online)
- Involvement Fee: Free
- Organizer: International Institute for Socio-Economic Studies (IISE)
- Cooperation: UNDP
- Planned Speakers: UNDP, NEC, Mozaic Earth, LandPrint, IISE (Moderator)
- Information and Registration: brand-new window https://note.com/nec_iise/n/nd93aa28e5c53 (Japanese text)
Please keep in mind that the webinar material, speakers, and schedule go through alter.
About NEC
The NEC Group leverages innovation to develop social worth and promote a more sustainable world where everybody has the opportunity to reach their complete capacity. NEC Corporation was developed in 1899. Today, the NEC Group’s roughly 110,000 staff members use world-leading AI, security, and interactions innovations to fix the most important requirements of consumers and society.
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