How to Reach Gender Parity & AI Helps Buildings Heat and Cool | WEF | Top Stories of the Week
Channel: World Economic Forum
Date: 2023-09-30

This week's top stories of the week include:

0:15 How to reach gender parity - Even though in many countries, women outperform men in education 50% of women abandon tech careers by the time they reach 35.

"We have a broken structure of care. They leave the minute they either become mothers or they think they want to become mothers. And they look around and they say, Can I do that here? And the answer is normally, no. And even if you think about the way that we've built workplaces, we've built workplaces where the day is 9-5, when schools start at 8 and end at 3, you're already setting up women to fail," says Reshma Saujani Founder and CEO, Moms First

4:21 This AI helps buildings heat and cool autonomously - Canadian start-up BrainBox AI combines data, AI and cloud computing into systems that enable buildings to heat and cool far more efficiently than with traditional thermostats. CEO Sam Ramadori compares this approach to a self-driving car in how it collects and uses data to make better decisions.

7:22 How Climate Change affect global health - Global warming is causing a cascade of health risks from a dangerous rise in heat stress to deadly flash floods, droughts and malnutrition, infectious diseases and even a rise in poor mental health.

10:02 Arctic sea ice is beyond saving. What now? - Within the next few decades, the Arctic will have its first ice-free September. Even with significant cuts in global CO2 emissions and if CO2 emissions only decline slowly, or keep rising, arctic summer ice could disappear within the next decade.
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