This week’s figures include some worrying findings in relation to responsible use of AI and further research into the environmental benefits of following sustainable diets. There is good news for green jobs and a new study that begged the question: can food delivery offer timely defibrillation in densely populated cities?
4. ‘Sustainability manager’ and ‘climate data analyst’ are two of the UK’s top 10 fastest-growing job roles in 2025, according to research conducted by LiveCareer. Green jobs are being created at four times the rate of the broader market.
95%. A survey of 1,500 business leaders by the Infosys Knowledge Institute shows that 95% of them have faced AI-related incidents – from privacy violations and inaccurate or harmful predictions to ethical violations and regulatory noncompliance. “Only 2% of companies we surveyed met the full standards set in our internal RAI [responsible AI] capability benchmark,” the Institute noted.
50%. Inspired by an urgent need to improve timely defibrillation for out-of-hospital cardiac arrests (OHCA) in dense urban settings, a team of investigators developed a simulation that explored the potential of leveraging an existing food delivery network in Taipei City, Taiwan, to help address this challenge. Their findings in the Canadian Journal of Cardiology suggest that deploying food delivery riders to deliver defibrillation may reduce automated external defibrillator (AED) response times by approximately three minutes – about 50% faster than a traditional emergency medical system (EMS) – and might be particularly beneficial during peak hours.
17%. A paper in Nature details an analysis of dietary emissions from 140 food products in 139 countries or areas. The researchers found that current global annual dietary emissions would fall by 17% with the worldwide adoption of the EAT-Lancet planetary health diet, primarily thanks to shifts from red meat to legumes and nuts as principal protein sources. More than half (56.9%) of the global population, which is presently over-consuming, would save 32.4% of global emissions through diet shifts, offsetting the 15.4% increase in global emissions from presently under-consuming populations moving towards healthier diets.
