About Climate Change AI
Climate Change AI (CCAI) is an organization composed of volunteers from academia and industry who believe that tackling climate change requires concerted societal action, in which machine learning can play an impactful role. Since it was founded in June 2019 (and established as a US domestic non-profit on June 14, 2021), CCAI has led the creation of a global movement in climate change and machine learning, encompassing researchers, engineers, entrepreneurs, investors, policymakers, companies, and NGOs.
Our Mission
To catalyze impactful work at the intersection of climate change and machine learning.
Our Goals
- Community: To build a community of diverse stakeholders.
- Education: To guide impactful work through educational resources and programs.
- Infrastructure: To fill gaps in essential infrastructure such as funding, tools, and datasets.
- Discourse: To advance discourse and advise relevant players.
Our Guiding Principles
- On climate change: Climate change is a pressing issue with major implications for societal well-being, particularly for the world’s most disadvantaged populations. Addressing climate change requires rapid, sustained, equitable, and scientifically informed efforts in both mitigation and adaptation, in conjunction with relevant stakeholders.
- On machine learning: Machine learning is a powerful tool with wide applicability in many technological and societal applications (both positive and negative), and should be practiced in a manner consistent with its strengths, weaknesses, and limitations, as well as with climate change goals (considering both its applications and its emissions footprint).
- On machine learning for climate change: Machine learning can play an impactful role in many broader strategies for reducing and responding to climate change. At the same time, machine learning is not a silver bullet, and should serve to supplement (rather than divert attention from) other impactful actions to address climate change.
- On diversity, inclusion, and equity: Diversity, inclusion, and equity are central to the advancement of society in general, and moreover fundamental to progress in addressing climate change. Where possible, it is important that work in climate change and machine learning attempt to address the structural inequities that exist in today’s society.
People
Board of Directors

Priya L. Donti
MIT
Co-Founder
CCAI Chair

Lynn H. Kaack
Hertie School
Co-Founder
CCAI Chair
Public Sector Co-Lead

David Rolnick
McGill, Mila
Co-Founder
CCAI Chair

Rasika Bhalerao
Northeastern University
Communications Chair
Newsletter

Kameliya Petrova
Community Leads Chair

Mark Roth
Climate, LLC
Programs Chair
Community Events
Staff

Maria João Sousa
Cornell Tech
Executive Director

Nadia Ahmed
UC Irvine
Research Scientist (Data Gaps)

Olivia Johnson
Yale School of the Environment
Administrative Assistant

Erick Kapp
Educational Events Coordinator

Xiaojuan Liu
Research Scientist (Data Gaps)
Core Team

Annie Agle
Cambridge Institute for Sustainable Leadership and Cotopaxi
Industry Events

Utkarsha Agwan
UC Berkeley
Community Events

Olalekan Akintande
University of Ibadan
Community Events

Sara Beery
MIT
Biodiversity Lead

Ashwin Bhanot
Blog

Millie Chapman
UC Berkeley
Summer School

Ioana Colfescu
National Centre for Atmospheric Science
Course

David Dao
ETH Zürich
Agriculture & Forestry Lead

Hari Prasanna Das
UC Berkeley
Summer School
Jesse Dunietz
Media Relations

Elena Fillola
University of Bristol
Summer School

Simone Fobi
Microsoft AI for Good Research Lab
Data

Jade Eva Guisiano
ISEP, Polytechnique, UNEP
Course

Meareg Hailemariam
Dakar American University of Science and Technology
Data

Jeremy Irvin
Stanford University
Summer School
Course

Umangi Jain
University of Toronto
Summer School

Kai Jeggle
ETH Zürich
Communications Vice Chair
Volunteer Matching

Nathan Kiner
Sunjul
Course

Samuel King
Briink GmbH
Community Events

Konstantin Klemmer
Social Media Lead

Raphaela Kotsch
University of Zurich, ZHAW
Economics & Markets Lead

Alp Kucukelbir
Fero Labs, Columbia University
Entrepreneurship Lead

Sasha Luccioni
Hugging Face

Shiva Madadkhani
TU München

Nikola Milojevic-Dupont
MCC Berlin, TU Berlin

Yazid Salahudeen Mikail
Ahmadu Bello University
Summer School

Jorge Montalvo
Centrica
Programs Vice Chair
Community Events

Panayiotis Moutis
City College of New York
Power & Energy Lead

Tejasri Nampally
IIT Hyderabad
Community Platform Lead

Arthur Ouaknine
McGill University, Mila
Webinars

Amanda Sessim Parisenti
Summer School

Ivan Poon
National University of Singapore
Community Platform Lead

Shafat Rahman
Otoll
Tutorials

Andrew Slavin Ross
Arcadia
Website

Sebastian Ruf
Intercontinental Exchange
Blog

Sarah Skenazy
Oxford Open Infrastructure and Health
Public Health Lead

Daniel Spokoyny
Carnegie Mellon
Summer School

Isabelle Tingzon
UNICEF, The World Bank, GFDRR
Tutorials

Kasia Tokarska
ETH Zürich
Climate & Earth Sciences Lead

Marcus Voss
Birds on Mars, TU Berlin
Buildings & Transportation Lead

Marius Wiggert
UC Berkeley
Community Events

Gina Wong
Johns Hopkins
Data

Sharon Xu
Indigo Ag
Webinars
Advisory Board

Inês Azevedo
Stanford University

Yoshua Bengio
Mila, U. de Montréal

Jennifer Chayes
UC Berkeley

Felix Creutzig
MCC Berlin, TU Berlin

Carla Gomes
Cornell University

Demis Hassabis
DeepMind

Zico Kolter
Carnegie Mellon

Konrad P. Körding
University of Pennsylvania

Claire Monteleoni
CU Boulder

Catherine Nakalembe
University of Maryland

Andrew Y. Ng
Stanford University

John C. Platt
Google AI

Tobias Schmidt
ETH Zürich

Craig Smith
Eye on AI
Former Core Team Members
- Dea Bankova
- Zikri Bayraktar
- Ashesh Chattopadhyay
- Ján Drgoňa
- Ebude Antem Yolande Ebong
- Jessica Fan
- Soledad Galli
- Mel Hanna
- Natasha Jaques
- John Kieffer
- Kelly Kochanski
- Lukas Kondmann
- Lauren Kuntz
- Alexandre Lacoste
- Wei-Wei Lin
- Tegan Maharaj
- Ankur Mahesh
- Olivia Mendivil Ramos
- Kelton Minor
- Peetak P. Mitra
- Felipe Oviedo
- Geneviève Patterson
- Kris Sankaran
- Evan Sherwin
- Alan Fortuny Sicart
- Katherine Stapleton
- Anna Waldman-Brown
- Sharon Xu
- Kureha Yamaguchi
- Yumna Yusuf
- Sharon Zhou
Press
Releases
- 2022-2023 Innovation Grants Winners (June 26, 2024)
- CCAI Innovation Grants 2023 (Nov. 4, 2022)
- 2021-2022 Innovation Grants Winners (May 5, 2022)
- Climate Change and AI: Recommendations for Government (Nov. 8, 2021)
- CCAI Innovation Grants 2022 (Aug. 30, 2021)
- MIT Technology Review 35 Under 35 awards (Jun. 30, 2021)
- Paper: Tackling Climate Change with Machine Learning (Nov. 11, 2019)
Selected articles
- Popular Science: AI can help fight climate change—but it can also make it worse (May 2022)
- Der Spiegel: How High-Tech Tools Are Helping Combat Climate Change (Sep 2021)
- pv magazine: Climate Change AI unveils US$2 million grant program (Aug 2021)
- The Economist Intelligence Unit: Green Intelligence - AI could boost efforts to fight climate change (May 2021)
- Capgemini: Climate AI: How artificial intelligence can power your climate action strategy (Nov 2020)
- Forbes: Is Fusion Really Close To Reality? Yes, Thanks To Machine Learning (Apr 2020)
- CleanTechnica: Machine Learning Experts Issue Call To Arms For Climate Focus (Jan 2020)
- National Geographic: How artificial intelligence can tackle climate change (Jul 2019)
- The Verge: Here’s how AI can help fight climate change according to the field’s top thinkers (Jun 2019)
- MIT Technology Review: Here are 10 ways AI could help fight climate change (Jun 2019)
Selected podcasts and radio shows
- WiDS Podcast: Priya Donti | Using AI to Fight the Climate Crisis (Jan 2023)
- The Interchange: How A.I. Will Revolutionize Climate Tech (Jun 2021)
- Körber Stiftung: Der Zusammenhang von Klima und KI (Mar 2021, German)
- ASP Flashpoint: Climate and AI (Aug 2020)
- Deutschlandfunk: Künstliche Intelligenz gegen den Klimawandel (May 2020, German)
- The Interchange: Beyond Forecasting: Artificial Intelligence Is a Powerful Decarbonization Tool (Feb 2020)
- “Not Cool: A Climate Podcast” by the Future of Life Institute: Part 1 and Part 2 (Oct 2019)
- Eye on A.I. podcast: Climate Change and AI (Sep 2019)