Climate Change and AI: Recommendations for Government Action
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Climate change is one of the most
pressing issues of our time, requiring
rapid action spanning many
communities, approaches, and tools.2
Artificial intelligence (AI) has been
proposed as one such tool, with
significant opportunities to accelerate
climate action via applications such
as forecasting solar power production,
optimizing building heating and
cooling systems, pinpointing
deforestation from satellite imagery,
and analyzing corporate financial
disclosures for climate-relevant
information.3 At the same time, AI is
a general-purpose technology with
many applications across society, which
means it has also been applied in
ways that impede climate action both
through immediate effects and broader
systemic effects.4
In this report, we provide actionable
recommendations as to how
governments can support the
responsible use of AI in the
context of climate change. These
recommendations were obtained
via consultation with a broad set
of stakeholders, and span three
primary categories: (a) supporting
the responsible use of AI for climate
change mitigation and adaptation, (b)
reducing the negative impacts of AI
where it may be used in ways that are
incompatible with climate goals, and
(c) building relevant implementation,
evaluation, and governance capabilities
for and among a wide range of entities.
Our full list of recommendations is
provided in Table E-1. To illustrate these
recommendations, we additionally
provide a booklet of high-potential
AI-for-climate use cases illustrating
the capabilities of AI for climate
action across different sectors, and
describing policy-relevant bottlenecks
such use cases may face in terms of
development, deployment, and scaling.
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