Atos has announced a three-year strategic partnership with World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to leverage technology and expertise in pursuit of twin sustainability goals: supporting biodiversity conservation, and helping companies decarbonise their operations.

Four main initiatives have been announced. The first sees Atos developing “responsible IT solutions” for WWF and its partners, spread across three projects: combining AI and geospatial imagery to automate biodiversity surveillance; developing a machine learning algorithm that focus on hotspots for the emergence of zoonoses (diseases that jump the species barrier); and improving existing spatial monitoring and reporting tools already widely used by 50,000 WWF agents in wildlife and ecosystem conservation projects across 80 countries.

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