Earth Day 2020's call for climate action: Can AI address the

With 2019 emerging as the warmest on record for the world's oceans, the call to climate action continues as the theme for the 50-year anniversary of Earth Day 2020, described as the world's largest environmental movement to drive transformative change for people and planet. Alongside the pandemic, the climate crisis presents an opportunity to use data and AI in ways never before considered. IBM itself began focusing on environmental sustainability before the first Earth Day was ever celebrated -- but its track record on greening its supply chain and driving innovative uses of tech has put it among the world's top eco-friendly Fortune 500 companies. Where IBM leads, customers reap benefits. Digital transformation efforts across industries has given the company a unique vantage point on critical challenges facing the world -- putting AI the work on a number of different issues, from drastically reducing energy consumption to lower C02 to optimizing large scale food production in the wake of climate chaos.