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LIFE              SDG 14: Life Below Water
                  BELOW WATER       We all know that healthy oceans support climate change mitigation and
                                    adaptation efforts. SDG targets to prevent and reduce marine pollution,
                                    protect  marine and coastal  ecosystems,  regulate  harvesting and end
                                    destructive fishing practices, etc. Our oceans are vast and cover more
                                    than 70% of the earth’s surface.

            This makes tracking and measuring life under water a massive task. Satellite imagery and analysis
            of a boat’s movements with a specially designed form of machine learning makes it possible to
            determine the area of illegal fishing or seafaring vessels.







                                Google Net object classification project and platform




            SDG 15: Life on Land

            This aims at protecting, restoring and promoting the sustainable use of               LIFE
            terrestrial ecosystems, managing forests, fighting deforestation, reversing           ON LAND
            land degradation and stopping biodiversity loss. In future, AI methods may
            be used to create a digital dashboard for the planet, to help us monitor,
            model, foresee and manage environmental systems on a global scale.





             PEACE, JUSTICE AND
             STRONG INSTITUTIONS   SDG 16: Peace, Justice and Strong Institutions
                                   This aims to guarantee justice and freedom for all people by 2030. The
                                   target is to significantly reduce all forms of violence with communities and
                                   governments to end conflict and insecurity.




            SDG 17: Partnership for the Goals

            To be successful in achieving goals as large as SDGs, it is very much
            required to have partnerships between the stakeholders like government,               PARTNERSHIPS
            the private sector and civil society. The sharing has to be of knowledge,             FOR THE GOALS
            expertise, technology and financial resources to support and achieve
            Sustainable Development Goals in all the countries. AI can be a vital tool
            for the global community to achieve the targets of the United Nations
            Sustainable Development Goals. Asia and the Middle East have already
            instigated to focus on AI as a part of their development strategy and

            economic growth.



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