Australian businesses need to ensure their AI use is developed and deployed responsibly, ethically, and sustainably, all while harnessing its benefits and maintaining trust with key stakeholders. <\/p>\n\n\n\n
This was one of the key themes addressed at the Climate and AI Summit<\/em> at Sydney’s Salesforce Tower earlier this month, held as part of this year’s Climate Action Week Sydney.<\/a> Attendees heard how Salesforce is approaching this topic with its Sustainable AI Approach <\/a>focused on right-sized models, efficient hardware, low-carbon regions, transparency, sustainable use cases, and investments.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n Attendees also heard from sustainability leaders across industries who are driving real impact in their sectors. <\/p>\n\n\n\n Sponsored by Salesforce, Climate Action Week Sydney is a series of community-led events held across Sydney from all aspects of the climate action ecosystem. As AI reshapes how we live and work, Salesforce is working across its operations, ecosystem, and investments to make AI more sustainable and equitable<\/a>.\u00a0<\/p>\n\n\n\n This includes leveraging Agentforce for sustainability transformation<\/a> to improve accuracy and efficiency, accelerating time to compliance, and empowering teams to spend more time taking action against their sustainability goals. It also includes supporting external innovation, enabling nonprofits like Good360<\/a> to access leading technology via the AI for Impact Accelerator<\/a>, as well as the Salesforce\u2019s Ventures Impact Fund<\/a>, which invests in climate startups such as PanoAI<\/a>.<\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWith the rise of agentic AI, we\u2019re seeing how agents can be at the heart of any organisation’s sustainability approach, enabling transformation across sustainable sourcing, sustainability management, sustainable operations and more.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\n Alexandra McDonald, Climate & Nature Program Lead, Salesforce Australia and New Zealand<\/p>\n<\/blockquote>\n\n\n\n \u201cToday\u2019s businesses are expected to balance innovation with responsibility, and that has never been clearer than when it comes to the use of AI and sustainability,\u201d said Alexandra McDonald, Climate & Nature Program Lead, Salesforce Australia and New Zealand. \u201cWith the rise of agentic AI, we\u2019re seeing how agents can be at the heart of any organisation’s sustainability approach, enabling transformation across sustainable sourcing, sustainability management, sustainable operations and more. <\/p>\n\n\n\n \u201cWith Agentforce we\u2019re ensuring organisations have the tools to scale their impact and accelerate their missions at every level.\u201d<\/p>\n\n\n\nDriving the news:<\/strong><\/h5>\n\n\n\n
\n