The data hasn’t improved since then, although, fortunately, AI tools have vastly improved and offer new possibilities.

Precise, verifiable, and granular data is key to climate risk mitigation. Increasingly, artificial intelligence systems emerge as the preeminent tools for collecting and analyzing climate insights with unprecedented accuracy and scope.

United Nations Secretary-General Antonio Guterres warned that unchecked climate change and AI pose existential threats to humanity. He emphasized AI's potential disruptiveness to economies and insisted it should benefit humanity rather than dominate it.

In early January 2025, amid the wildfires in Los Angeles, multiple posts about the impact of artificial intelligence (AI) on climate change circulated widely.  Since LA is on fire and part of the south is frozen,

Generative AI chatbots fail to adequately reflect fossil fuel companies’ complicity in the climate crisis, a Global Witness investigation has found.

With artificial intelligence (AI) technology, business teams can reset the boundaries for what’s possible. Consider a luxury seafood company based in Nova Scotia that has significantly increased its catch using AI-driven analysis of marine territories and species.

Companies like Google, Meta, Microsoft and Amazon are building large data centers in Indiana for AI. Each one requires power 24/7 and a lot of it. But Indiana utilities werent anticipating this when they made plans to get more power from sources like wind and solar.

The focus at the 2024 World Economic Forum will be U.N. chief António Guterres's speech, AI risks and Trump's trade tariff plans.

Philanthropy can help scale it where it’s needed most. At last year’s COP29 in Baku, Azerbaijan, world leaders grappled with a critical question. As natural disasters increase in frequency and severity,

Sarah Kaizar’s AT Feed is an automated aggregate of current climate news and a critique of the future of information.

The climate change deck has been reshuffled. Oil and gas companies have been given a new lease of life. Meanwhile subsidies and incentives for wind farms and electric vehicles have been rescinded by Mr Trump in executive orders signed on Jan 20, in addition to a withdrawal from the Paris climate agreement.

A speech by the U.N. chief, economic growth potential in places like China and Russia, the challenges of artificial intelligence, and appearances by leaders from Spain to Malaysia are set to headline the agenda at the World Economic Forum's annual event in Davos on Wednesday.