Grant: Alliance Grants
Concordia University
$141,630.10
Meeting 30 x 30 and the Paris Agreement: An inclusive framework leveraging digital solutions for effective nature-based solutions in Canada
FY 2022-23
Summary
Climate change is disproportionately affecting Canada, causing the country to warm two times faster than theglobal average and three times faster in Canada's North. Canada must aim to reverse this trend by meeting itsglobal commitments to protect 30% of land and sea by 2030 (30x30), and reach its target of net-zero emissionsby 2050.Fortunately, as a world-leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, Canada is well-positioned tosteer the transformative potential of the new digital and data-driven economy, towards solving the climatechallenge. With this context as background, a partnership between Microsoft and our applicant team wasformed, with the goal to explore the opportunities and challenges of meeting Canada's global environmentalcommitments in a just, equitable, and inclusive manner, through the application of artificial intelligence (AI)and digital tools. This partnership has an explicit objective to explore dimensions of social equity, dataownership, and Indigenous conceptions of nature and of technology, as a foundation for any proposed digitalsolution.Our expected outcome for this partnership is a co-designed, multi-component framework It will be created andthus used by many stakeholders including a) government: to guide decisions on, and monitoring of, public andindustry climate action strategies including extractive activities, b) industry: to guide investments in carbonoffset programs and GHG emission reduction strategies c) Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC):to enable data ownership, empower land management and preserve knowledge systems and livelihoods.
Program
Alliance Grants
Recipient
Location
Quebec, Canada
Recipient Type
Academia
Type
Grant
Source
NSERC's Awards Data
As published
Application id
571271-2021
Name nom
Ubalijoro, Eliane ELIA
Department département
Not available from the selection list **
Organization id
70
Institution établissement
Concordia University
Province en
Québec
Province fr
Québec
Country en
CANADA
Country fr
CANADA
Fiscal year exercice financier
2022
Competition year année de concours
2021
Award amount
141630.1
Program id
ALLRP
Program name en
Alliance Grants
Program name fr
Subventions Alliance
Group en
RESEARCH PARTNERSHIPS
Group fr
PARTENARIATS DE RECHERCHE
Committee code
96
Committee name en
RPP Internal Decision Cttee
Committee name fr
Cté de décision interne - PPR
Area of application code
401
Area of application group en
Environment
Area of application group fr
Environnement
Area of application en
Climate and atmosphere
Area of application fr
Climat et atmosphère
Research subject code
4000
Research subject group en
Earth science
Research subject group fr
Sciences de la terre
Research subject en
Earth science (see also marine geology 4604)
Research subject fr
Sciences de la terre (voir aussi géologie marine, 4604)
Installment
inst:1
Partie
1
Nb partie
1
Application title
Meeting 30 x 30 and the Paris Agreement: An inclusive framework leveraging digital solutions for effective nature-based solutions in Canada
Application summary
Climate change is disproportionately affecting Canada, causing the country to warm two times faster than theglobal average and three times faster in Canada's North. Canada must aim to reverse this trend by meeting itsglobal commitments to protect 30% of land and sea by 2030 (30x30), and reach its target of net-zero emissionsby 2050.Fortunately, as a world-leader in artificial intelligence (AI) and machine learning, Canada is well-positioned tosteer the transformative potential of the new digital and data-driven economy, towards solving the climatechallenge. With this context as background, a partnership between Microsoft and our applicant team wasformed, with the goal to explore the opportunities and challenges of meeting Canada's global environmentalcommitments in a just, equitable, and inclusive manner, through the application of artificial intelligence (AI)and digital tools. This partnership has an explicit objective to explore dimensions of social equity, dataownership, and Indigenous conceptions of nature and of technology, as a foundation for any proposed digitalsolution.Our expected outcome for this partnership is a co-designed, multi-component framework It will be created andthus used by many stakeholders including a) government: to guide decisions on, and monitoring of, public andindustry climate action strategies including extractive activities, b) industry: to guide investments in carbonoffset programs and GHG emission reduction strategies c) Indigenous Peoples and Local Communities (IPLC):to enable data ownership, empower land management and preserve knowledge systems and livelihoods.
