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Reimagining Our Relationship with Oceans: Closing the Blue Finance Gap, AI, and Ocean Conservation Innovations

Last month, the SDG Digital Transformation Lab cofounders Claudia Cogut, Radhika Shah and Craig Cogut convened “Reimagining Our Relationship with Oceans: Closing the Blue Finance Gap, AI, and Ocean Conservation Innovations” — a roundtable bringing together scientists, investors, and ocean leaders to discuss bridging one of the most persistent gaps in climate: blue financing for … Continued

Reflections from a Silicon Valley Luncheon Dialog Bridging Sustainable AI with Human Development & Agency

The AI Climate Paradox: Reflections from Craig Cogut, Radhika Shah, and Claudia Cogut, Co-Founders of The SDG Digital Transformation Lab

With AI dominating climate conversations at COP and across policy circles, everyone seems convinced that artificial intelligence will solve our biggest environmental challenges. All this attention takes us back to a discussion we had during New York Climate Week that revealed something different: the gap between what’s technically possible and what’s actually deployable.

Pegasus Capital Advisors and SDG Digital Transformation Lab Announce New AI Collaborations and a Digital Social Vulnerability Index to Combat Climate Vulnerability

STAMFORD, Conn., Dec. 2, 2025 /PRNewswire/ — Pegasus Capital Advisors, a leading private equity firm specializing in blended sustainable investments across climate, food, water, and ocean ecosystems, and the SDG Digital Transformation and Sustainability Solutions Lab – which brings together academics and other experts to unlock innovative AI and data science approaches and insights aimed … Continued

Announcing the launch of the Digital Transformation & Sustainability Solutions Lab Accelerating the UN SDGs at Climate Week 2024 with UNDP as Inaugural Partner

Catalyzing Innovative Technology & Data Science and Informing Digital and Sustainability Policy to Accelerate the Global Goals

The SDG Digital Transformation & Sustainability Solutions Lab introduced at 2024 Women in Data Science Worldwide (WiDS) Conference at Stanford University by Radhika Shah

Stanford Professor Emerita Margot Gerritsen convened the Women in Data Science Worldwide (WiDS) conference bringing together 400+ women in Data Science from across the world at Stanford University. The SDG Digital Transformation & Sustainability Solutions Lab was introduced by Radhika Shah in her talk on ‘Digital Innovation & Data Science as Accelerants of the Sustainable … Continued

How COP28 pledges pave way for private sector-led clean energy op-ed By Gina McCarthy, Craig Cogut

The $85 billion in commitments at COP 28 should go a long way to enticing even more private sector investments. Here’s one recently announced partnership aiming to do just that.