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Fighting Climate Change with the AI for the Planet Alliance

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UNESCO along with a multidisciplinary, global alliance called, AI for the Planet, “seeks to catalyze global efforts” to find solutions to climate challenges applying AI. Over the next 12 months, this international alliance will establish a global platform to:

• Identify and prioritize the top use cases for AI in addressing climate change, such as accurately measuring emissions;
• Select and champion the most promising solutions to address climate change mitigation, adaptation, and resilience, especially in the Global South;
• Ensure these solutions can achieve impact at scale, with actions like forming connections with investors, and public and private decision makers driving climate action on the ground.

How AI Can Be Used to Mitigate Climate Change

• AI can gather large datasets in real time leading to creating early warning systems for extreme weather events and long-term projections as sea levels rise. “This will be especially vital for the over three billion people living in areas highly vulnerable to climate change, particularly in the Global South.”
• With AI modeling and feedback loops, “decision makers can explore the intended and unintended consequences of climate-related policies and decisions.”
• AI can “optimize supply chain networks to simultaneously reduce the energy needed and the costs incurred to ship people and cargo around the world; as well as improving energy grid options by forecasting electricity demand.”

AI for the Planet will be publishing a report and launching a call for solutions to identify and support promising innovations.