The Future is Unwritten – But It's Being Coded Now

🌍 Good morning, changemakers.

Forget the buzzwords. The world is changing faster than most can grasp – and those who understand it first will define it.

🔹 AI is rewriting the job market faster than universities can update their syllabi.
🔹 Companies promising sustainability are getting exposed for doing the opposite.
🔹 The future of cities isn’t just smart—it’s self-sustaining and predictive.

Are we leading this transformation? Or is it leading us?

💥 Let’s break it down.

🔎 In today’s Impact Goal Pulse:

• The Great Green Lie? AI is Exposing ESG Greenwashing

• 50% of Jobs Will Be Automated by 2030 – But Which Ones?

• The First Fully AI-Designed Cities Are Coming – No Human Planning Needed

• The Impact Goal Insider:Tools, Jobs & Career launchpad to Future-Proof Your Career

• The Impact Goal Network: Events, Networking & Collaboration

🌍 SUSTAINABILITY & INNOVATION WATCH

_{GREENWASHING AND ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE}

♻️ The Great Green Lie? AI is Exposing ESG Greenwashing

Companies love to shout about sustainability, but AI is calling their bluff.

• New AI-powered ESG trackers are scanning reports, financial data, and even satellite imagery to catch fake claims in real time

•  Investment shift: Greenwashing backlash is pushing investors to demand proof, not PR.

• Who’s in trouble? A recent AI audit found over 40% of ESG reports contain misleading claims.

📌 What this means for you:

• AI-powered audits will force companies to go beyond marketing hype.

• The brands that win will be the ones that actually integrate sustainability—not just claim it.

• Read the full article here - “Unmasking Greenwashing with AI”

More insightful articles and tools about the topic 👇👇👇

• A question of trust: How AI is addressing greenwashing concerns

• AI tool launched to flag greenwashing risk in companies and funds

• AI and ESG - friends or foes?

• Unveiling the Green Facade: A Deep Dive into ESG greenwashing

_{ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE AND THE FUTURE OF WORK}

💼 50% of Jobs Will Be Automated by 2030 – But Which Ones?

Recent studies from McKinsey, indicate that up to 50% of current jobs could be automated by 2030. In other terms, Artificial intelligence (AI) could replace the equivalent of 300 million full-time jobs, a report by investment bank Goldman Sachs says.

Which industries are first?

• Healthcare – AI-driven diagnosis & robotic surgeries.

• Finance – AI replacing risk analysts & traders.

• Creative Work – AI-generated content overtaking manual production.

Emerging Jobs That Didn’t Exist 3 Years Ago:

• AI Ethics Consultant – Because someone needs to stop bias in AI models.

• Prompt Engineer – The “whisperers” who make AI generate exactly what’s needed.

• Carbon Credit Trader – Monetizing sustainability in an era of net-zero.

📌 What this means for you

• Adapt fast: Learn AI-driven skills or risk irrelevance.

• Your next boss? Might be an algorithm.

Further Reading 👇👇👇

• We Must Approach AI Like the Automobile

• Agents are the future AI companies promise — and desperately need

• The Robopocalypse Cometh: What Jobs Will AI Replace by 2030?

• How Will Artificial Intelligence Affect Jobs 2024-2030

🚀  LATEST NEWS & DEVELOPMENTS

_{CITIES OF THE FUTURE}

🔮 The First Fully AI-Designed Cities Are Coming

Forget "smart cities." The next leap is autonomous cities—where AI manages everything.

• No more traffic lights – Predictive AI traffic flow eliminates congestion.

• Buildings that heal themselves – 3D-printed structures with self-repairing materials.

• Energy that produces itself – Cities that generate more power than they consume.

• WEF information here.

• An architect asked AI to design skyscrapers of the future. This is what it proposed

• AI for Intelligent Traffic Management in Smart Cities

⚡THE IMPACT GOAL INSIDER

🛠️ Trending Sustainability, AI and Business Tools

• GoodData ESG: An AI-powered platform for tracking and analyzing sustainability metrics, helping businesses ensure transparency and accountability. ​

• Repurpose:  This eco-friendly brand offers compostable alternatives to household items. AI has been key to scaling its operations.

• Databricks: Provides a unified data analytics platform known as the "lakehouse," combining data warehousing and data lakes.

• Torre.ai: an AI-powered recruitment platform that automates the hiring process end-to-end

• UiPath: offers a comprehensive automation platform that combines robotic process automation (RPA) with AI capabilities.

🎯 Impact Career Accelerator

Expert insights, career growth strategies, and guidance to thrive in sustainability, ESG, and technology-driven roles.

🔹IBM's AI Skills Academy: IBM offers a free online platform providing AI courses tailored to underrepresented groups.

🔹 AI Ethics and Governance Certification by The Alan Turing Institute:This certification program focuses on the ethical considerations and governance frameworks necessary for responsible AI development and deployment.

🔹 University of Cambridge - Climate Change for Decision-Makers: Challenges, Transformations, Strategies: Enabling decision-makers to gain a complete perspective of climate change issues, diagnose challenges within their context and develop positions or strategies to solve them

📢 THE IMPACT GOAL NETWORK

🎤 Must-Attend Events & Podcasts

Webinars, conferences, workshops, and podcasts shaping the future of sustainability, ESG, and technology.

Next AI Summit - March 20-21, 2025 - Andorra Park Hotel, Andorra, Spain. Andorra will become the epicenter of Artificial Intelligence in Southern Europe by hosting the Next AI Summit.

LlamaCon by Meta - April 29, 2025 - Virtual Event​. Meta is launching "LlamaCon," focusing on advancements in open-source AI to assist developers in creating innovative applications and products. This event precedes the Meta Connect conference scheduled for September 17-18, 2025.

AI for Good Global Summit 2025 - July 8-11, 2025 - Palexpo, Geneva, Switzerland. Established by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), this summit aims to leverage AI's potential to drive progress toward achieving the UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). The event brings together leaders from governments, industries, and academia to discuss AI innovations for social good.

🤝 Networking & Collaboration

Opportunities to connect with industry leaders, innovators, and like-minded professionals.

That’s a wrap for today! 🚀

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