How can technology contribute to the understanding, monitoring and preservation of our biodiversity?
"Why rethinking the importance we place on biodiversity is essential
Even though biodiversity seems to be currently on everyone’s lips, there is a significant and disturbing gap between the practical attention we pay to the biodiversity agenda and the more high-profile climate crisis agenda. These are the dual existential challenges facing the world.
In repeating the biodiversity term over and over, we may have reached a form of semantic saturation, where we have lost the sense of what it really means. Biodiversity embeds the entire living world. It’s a notion fundamental in all its diversity and potential, the cornerstone of our existence - paradoxically endangered by our own act.
This paper aims to provide a fresh view on the state of this living world, and how we should rethink our place and role in the global ecosystem. If we are to make progress in achieving sustainability, we at Capgemini strongly believe in the value of collaboration - not only to expand our vision and concepts of the challenges facing us, but also in the design and implementation of relevant solutions that embrace the social, environmental, and economic stakes.
That’s why we’ve developed this paper, together with our partner AWS, with additional valuable contributions from key academics, and other businesses, all with the aim of exploring how technology can help protect, maintain, and restore biodiversity.
This first paper – Tech and the Living World - looks at the importance of societal paradigm shifts, as well as specific actions that we can take. So, I invite you to take a deep dive into this first edition of ReThink, a series of whitepapers that we hope will make you think again about how to ensure a sustainable future."
