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Artificial Intelligence (AI) is transforming us and transforming our world. While its applications are broad and can contribute to solving complex problems, such as detecting diseases and identifying abusive and violent virtual content against girls and women, there are also many dilemmas that arise in its use. Among the concerns are the gender biases present in these advanced technologies.

The disastrous hurricane that wiped Acapulco by surprise last October shows that climate change is here, and Latin America and the Caribbean are taking a toll. As global temperatures continue to rise, the region is experiencing more extreme weather events like droughts, floods, and storms, while the consequences of glacier retreat, sea level rise, and species migration continue to build up. These climate impacts threaten lives, destroy infrastructure, and disrupt economic activity.

Latin America and the Caribbean is facing a convergence of risks that threaten the delicate relationship between human health and ecosystem health due to antimicrobial resistance. Having an integrated health approach from the early stages of a project's lifecycle allows us to prevent the exposure of populations and ecosystems to the risks and impacts arising from these resistances, thereby promoting broader benefits.

The natural boundary between water and land is much blurrier than it appears on a map. If you live near a pristine natural coastline or beach, go there with a map in hand. If you compare the actual sea/land boundary you observe, with the map, you will see how they do not match (or just how vague the boundary is).

Imagine that you are planning next year's budget and identifying the projects to be contracted. The community is excited about the upcoming projects. Construction gets underway, but before long, you must deliver unwelcome news—these projects will require more time and prove more expensive than originally anticipated, leading to considerable dissatisfaction among the population.

The agri-food systems across Latin America and the Caribbean (LAC) are continuously subject to disruptions. One of the most recent and devasting disruptions was the COVID-19 pandemic. This public health emergency affected the region's agri-food sector, the economies of its countries, and the daily lives of its people. In this context, resilience and innovation were crucial to the survival of people, businesses, and institutions.

The next decade is critical to see whether countries can move fast enough to implement plans to adapt to this increasingly complex challenge: the climate and biodiversity crisis.

About three and a half years ago, the world stopped. An almost unknown threat made us drastically change our way of living.

Without wanting to delve into what that stage entailed regarding human pain and mental and physical challenges for the population, I would like to start a series of blogs about the structural change that the pandemic brought to the tourism sector.