Microsoft announces $500,000 investment in Leonardo Dicaprio Foundation at Collision

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AI For Earth, which was created by Microsoft and has since become a big part of the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation’s efforts, funds grants to companies using AI and machine learning to tackle environmental issues, with a focus on solving issues related to climate change, biodiversity conservation, agriculture, and water. Lucas Joppa, Microsoft’s chief environmental officer, who stepped into that newly-created role last August, says that the melding of the technological skills like those that Microsoft brings to the table as well as the expertise that the Leonardo DiCaprio Foundation has when it comes to environmental issues is exactly what is needed to bring change to this space. “The tech sector employs a vast majority of the world’s most advanced technology skills. And if we’re not putting those people into place to help solve the problems that we’re facing from an environmental perspective, we’re not doing a service that we would like to,” Joppa explains. And Joppa said that these pillars can be addressed through the grants, as well as through providing grantees access to the significant resources and knowledge that both of the organizations bring to the table.

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