{"id":25583,"date":"2023-11-17T16:50:05","date_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:50:05","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/news.pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/uk-announces-ai-system-for-pakistan-designed-to-detect-early-forest-fires-jane-pakistan-observer\/"},"modified":"2023-11-17T16:50:05","modified_gmt":"2023-11-17T16:50:05","slug":"uk-announces-ai-system-for-pakistan-designed-to-detect-early-forest-fires-jane-pakistan-observer","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/pakistaninewspaperlist.com\/news\/uk-announces-ai-system-for-pakistan-designed-to-detect-early-forest-fires-jane-pakistan-observer\/","title":{"rendered":"UK announces AI system for Pakistan designed to detect early forest fires: Jane – Pakistan Observer"},"content":{"rendered":"
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In a bold move to address environmental challenges in Pakistan, British Commissioner in Pakistan, Jane Marriott OBE, has announced a groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) system for Pakistan designed to detect and track early forest fires.<\/p>\n

\u201cBy spotting early forest fires, we\u2019ll be able to help protect communities and save livelihoods,\u201d said the High Commissioner in Pakistan in an interview with state run news agency. The initiative, part of a comprehensive climate financing effort, aimed to safeguard communities and protect livelihoods, particularly in the Khyber Pakhtunkhwa region and around the Margala Hills in Islamabad.The High Commissioner said that the UK would also provide financial assistance to support climate initiatives in Pakistan. \u201cThis includes the development of an innovative AI system dedicated to the early detection of forest fires, a technology set to revolutionize the way communities respond to environmental threats,\u201d she added.<\/p>\n

The High Commissioner highlighted the ongoing collaboration between the UK and Pakistan under the Financial Accelerator program. \u201cThe UK is supporting eight different projects, eight innovative Pakistani enterprises in a climate-friendly way,\u201d she explained.<\/p>\n

Responding to a question about the financial components of support for the floods, she said two significant aspects including involved immediate humanitarian assistance, with millions of pounds contributed for urgent humanitarian needs. For the longer term, she said a focus on health care and education.<\/p>\n

She further said, \u201cWe know that three and half million children\u2019s schooling was disrupted by those floods and there\u2019s a worry that at least a million of those kids won\u2019t go back to school.\u201d<\/p>\n

\u201cThe work that we\u2019ve been doing, it\u2019s not going to solve everything, but we\u2019re in the process by December of getting 85,000 of those children back in school and learning that they wouldn\u2019t otherwise ordinarily be doing\u201d she added<\/p>\n

Discussing King Charles III\u2019s involvement in COP28, she said that King will make one of the opening speeches at COP28 because as \u201cwe have said, it\u2019s a matter that\u2019s very, very dear to his heart.\u201d She said, the UK will be focusing on three main areas around trying to keep the climate increase at 1.5%. It\u2019s a difficult, task, but we have to do it she added.<\/p>\n

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In a bold move to address environmental challenges in Pakistan, British Commissioner in Pakistan, Jane Marriott OBE, has announced a groundbreaking artificial intelligence (AI) system for Pakistan designed to detect and track early forest fires. \u201cBy spotting early forest fires, we\u2019ll be able to help protect communities and save livelihoods,\u201d said the High Commissioner in […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":25584,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_acf_changed":false,"om_disable_all_campaigns":false,"_monsterinsights_skip_tracking":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_active":false,"_monsterinsights_sitenote_note":"","_monsterinsights_sitenote_category":0,"site-sidebar-layout":"default","site-content-layout":"","ast-site-content-layout":"default","site-content-style":"default","site-sidebar-style":"default","ast-global-header-display":"","ast-banner-title-visibility":"","ast-main-header-display":"","ast-hfb-above-header-display":"","ast-hfb-below-header-display":"","ast-hfb-mobile-header-display":"","site-post-title":"","ast-breadcrumbs-content":"","ast-featured-img":"","footer-sml-layout":"","ast-disable-related-posts":"","theme-transparent-header-meta":"","adv-header-id-meta":"","stick-header-meta":"","header-above-stick-meta":"","header-main-stick-meta":"","header-below-stick-meta":"","astra-migrate-meta-layouts":"default","ast-page-background-enabled":"default","ast-page-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-4)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"ast-content-background-meta":{"desktop":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"tablet":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""},"mobile":{"background-color":"var(--ast-global-color-5)","background-image":"","background-repeat":"repeat","background-position":"center center","background-size":"auto","background-attachment":"scroll","background-type":"","background-media":"","overlay-type":"","overlay-color":"","overlay-opacity":"","overlay-gradient":""}},"fifu_image_url":"https:\/\/pakobserver.net\/wp-content\/uploads\/2023\/08\/Jane-Marriott.webp","fifu_image_alt":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[192],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-25583","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-islamabad-news"],"acf":[],"aioseo_notices":[],"aioseo_head":"\n\t\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t\n\t\t