Climate Change AI at COP30

Events

• Announcement of the Artificial Intelligence Climate Institute – Nov 11, 2025, Thematic Room 2, Action Agenda Thematic Space, Blue Zone, COP30
• Advancing Technical and Societal Readiness in AI for Climate – Nov 12, 2025, Capacity-Building Hub, Blue Zone, COP30 + Livestream
• Optimising Demand, Decarbonising Supply: Driving the Energy Transition forward – Nov 14, 2025, French Pavilion, Blue Zone, COP30
• Climate accountability in the age of AI: A call for global standards – Nov 15, 2025, Standards Pavilion, Blue Zone, COP30

About

Climate Change AI (CCAI) empowers a global community of innovators, practitioners, and decision-makers to accelerate responsible climate action through the use of AI, by addressing critical gaps in expertise, education, coordination, and research-to-deployment infrastructure. CCAI is a registered 501(c)(3) nonprofit, and is run by a small team of staff alongside a dedicated team of 20 volunteers hailing from five continents and bringing significant breadth and depth of expertise on both AI and climate change.

Announcement of the Artificial Intelligence Climate Institute

Tuesday, November 11, 2025, 14:00-15:00 (GMT-3, BRT Time) - Thematic Room 2, Action Agenda Thematic Space, Blue Zone, COP30

The AI Climate Institute (AICI) – a new global initiative set for launch at COP30 – aims to equip people and institutions in developing countries with crucial skills to harness artificial intelligence (AI) for climate action. Anchored in equity and sustainability, AICI will strive to promote AI as a tool of empowerment – a tool enabling countries across the Global South to design, adapt, and implement their own AI-driven climate solutions, including lightweight and low-energy models suitable for local contexts.

Speakers:

• Mr. Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary-General, ITU
• Mr. Guilherme Canela, Director for Division for Digital Inclusion and Policies and Digital Transformation, UNESCO
• Mr. Alexandre Campos Moraes, Deputy Head, International Affairs Office, National Telecommunications Agency of Brazil (Anatel)
• Dr. Maria João Sousa, Executive Director, Climate Change AI
• Dr. Fabro Steibel, Executive Director, ITS Rio
• Mr. Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva, Coordinator for ST&I, Climate Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil
• Dr. Renata Tedeschi, Instituto Tecnológico Vale

Organizers: COP30 Presidency, ITU, UNESCO and Anatel

Advancing Technical and Societal Readiness in AI for Climate

Wednesday, November 12, 2025, 16:45-17:45 (GMT-3, BRT Time) - Capacity-Building Hub, Blue Zone, COP30

Paris Committee on Capacity-building (PCCB) Means of Implementation (MOI) Day

Technology is a critical accelerator of sustainable development and an important enabler of climate change mitigation, adaptation, and climate science. This session will examine the role of artificial intelligence (AI) within that landscape, focusing on what AI can meaningfully deliver across decarbonization and climate resilience strategies. Drawing on concrete examples, the discussion will highlight AI applications at different technology readiness levels, in varied geographical regions, assessing both the opportunities they offer and the constraints they face in real-world deployment. The discussion will also address how different mechanisms of financing innovation are critical for capacity-building and equitable and sustainable economic development. By linking the technical potential of AI with innovation financing strategies, we aim to chart actionable, coherent, equitable, and scalable routes for operationalizing climate solutions that advance the goals of the Paris Agreement.

Moderators:

• Dr. Maria João Sousa, Executive Director, Climate Change AI
• Mr. Waldo Soto Bruna, Co-Founder and Director, Reciprocal and 2811

Speakers: TBA

Organizers: Climate Change AI, Reciprocal

Optimising Demand, Decarbonising Supply: Driving the Energy Transition forward

Friday, November 14, 2025, 16:00-17:30 (GMT-3, BRT Time) - French Pavilion, Blue Zone, COP30

This two-part high-level session, co-organised with Schneider Electric, ENGIE, and ClimateSAN, will explore how optimising energy demand and decarbonising energy supply, supported by financial innovation and enhanced by artificial intelligence, can jointly accelerate the global energy transition by scaling efficiency, electrification, renewables, and green molecules across sectors to deliver measurable impact.

Speakers:

• Representative from Schneider Electric

• Representative from Directrice RSE, ENGIE

• Mr. Bertrand Piccard, Chairman, Solar Impulse Foundation
• Dr. David Rolnick, Co-Founder and Chair, Climate Change AI, and Assistant Professor, McGill University and Mila
• Mr. Paul Stevers, Co-Founder, ClimateSAN

Organizers: Schneider Electric, Engie, ClimateSAN, and Solar Impulse Foundation

Climate accountability in the age of AI: A call for global standards

Saturday, November 15, 2025, 13:00-14:00 (GMT-3, BRT Time) - Standards Pavilion, Blue Zone, COP30

This event will host an interactive panel discussion with a moderated exchange, bringing together representatives from international organizations, standards developers, the scientific community, national authorities, and industry, to foster a shared understanding of the environmental impacts of AI across its lifecycle, and how international consensus standards (ISO, IEC, etc.) can guide the responsible development and use of AI for net positive outcomes. The session will be action-oriented, focusing on existing good practices and proposals for international cooperation in AI standardization for sustainability.

Moderations: AFNOR

Panelists: TBC

• Representative from UNEP
• Representative from India
• Representative from Kenya
• Representative from Climate Change AI
• Business representatives: Google and Schneider Electric

Organizers: French Ministry for Ecological Transition and AFNOR, with support from ISO/IEC and the Coalition for Sustainable AI