Toronto, Canada - June 17, 2024

Storyline:
Artificial Intelligence (AI) can play a key role in helping the environment, said a marine biologist at Collision 2024, the big international tech conference in Toronto, Canada.

Deborah Brosnan is a marine scientist, who works in the field of climate and resilience for the oceans. What she has been doing is really bringing together governments, private sector and communities to figure out some practical solutions that scientists can implement to restore biodiversity and to build coastal resilience for communities.

They are helping to design and build coral reef structures that will break wave action, protect the coastal zone, mangrove restoration and tying those into private sector investments in development or in work that's happening, particularly in the islands.

She said there are two kinds of climate risks in some of the communities that she has been working with.

Brosnan said technology is starting to provide help for the protection of the ocean environment.

Brosnan said AI is playing a more important role in environmental issues.

The Collision 2024 was held from June 17 to 20.

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Toronto, Canada - June 17, 2024:
1. Sign showing Collision Toronto;
2. Tech conference in progress;
Toronto, Canada - June 17, 2024
3. SOUNDBITE (English) Deborah Brosnan, marine scientist (starting with shot 2/partially overlaid with shots 4-7):
"For coastal communities, the climate risk we're seeing is literally sea level rise and the beaches are disappearing. So we work in places that have lost maybe 30 meters, 90 feet of beach in about 10 years or less. And that's a huge loss of beach, and that, in turn, translates into tourism loss. It means that the ocean that was 50 feet away from your door is now in your door. And so we're looking at these issues as major problems for the islands. But everything from changing weather patterns, changing drought patterns, increased natural hazards, natural disasters, they're all coming together like a perfect storm, really.";
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4. Aerial shot of city;
5. Sea;
6. Fast motion of cloud moving over sea;
7. Sea waves
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8. Aerial shots of sea, bridge;
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9. SOUNDBITE (English) Deborah Brosnan, marine scientist (partially overlaid with shots 10-11):
"Tech is changing the world, but tech has not been as involved in the oceans or in the environment for quite a while, but that's really changing. There's two things changing it, one, climate, and the second is the realization that the oceans, I mean, let's put it in perspective, the oceans cover 70 percent of our planet. If they were a country, they'd rank seventh in the world in terms of GDP, 80 percent of the goods we get come by the ocean. So suddenly the world is waking up to, wow, there's a whole ocean out there, and it's in trouble, but it's also providing us with a lot. So tech is beginning to get more interested in the ocean.";
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10. Aerial shot of city;
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11. Various of white dolphins
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Dongshan County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, east China - Recent
12. Various of fish, corals;
Toronto, Canada - June 17, 2024
13. SOUNDBITE (English) Deborah Brosnan, marine scientist (partially overlaid with shot 14):
"John Paul DeJoria and I are going to open an innovation learning center in Antigua and Barbuda for the reefs, coral reefs. What we want to focus on is, what are the emerging technologies that will help us better understand our reefs, better design better reefs for the future. But it's happening around the world in terms of AI, being able to help us sense better sensing, being able to identify the areas that you could do restoration in, beginning to provide predictive data. So more and more AI is going to start to emerge, both as a predictive technology, but also as a way to get data faster.";
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Dongshan County, Zhangzhou City, Fujian Province, east China - Recent
14. Various of fish, corals;
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15. Corals.

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