Net zero or net hero?
This explainer, created by Ada Lovelace Institute, seeks to provide information about the intersection of artificial intelligence (AI) and climate, including the impacts of AI on climate change and how AI is purportedly being used to address climate change.
With the surging increase in investment in AI-for-climate startups, this explainer is primarily intended to be useful to private and public funders of these companies, government agencies interested in climate and AI, and climate and environmental non-governmental organisations who need to get up to speed on the topic. In particular it explores the two strategies of climate adaptation and climate mitigation, and their potential to effect change.
This report concludes with a proposal for a research project that the Ada Lovelace Institute will undertake. The project will explore how funders of AI-for-climate technologies can better consider climate justice issues.