Centre for AI & Climate

About us

Our core belief is that AI is an important technology, which, if deployed responsibly and intelligently, can accelerate the transition to a net-zero, climate resilient world.

Mission

There are a wide range of opportunities to apply data science and AI to accelerate the transition to net zero in the energy, transport, industry and agriculture and land-use sectors.

Our mission it to accelerate the responsible and targeted adoption of data science and AI to support faster action on climate change.

However, greater adoption of AI in these sectors is held back by a series of bottlenecks and challenges. These include a lack of easy access to good quality data, a lack of technical and non-technical capacity required to deploy AI, insufficient funding, and insufficient links between the data science community and sectors critical to the net-zero transition.

The Centre for AI & Climate acts as a facilitator and incubator that aims to connect capabilities across technology, policy and business. We facilitate cross-sector collaboration to address bottlenecks and build solutions that accelerate the world's transition to net zero.

Strategy

We work across a network of organisations to address the cross-cutting challenges that teams working on applying AI to net zero challenges face. We seek to build a common vision within our community about how to address these challenges, and then we develop targeted partnerships and action teams to deliver solutions.

We are building out programmes across the following themes to support action:

- Data

- Capacity Building

- Funding

- Sectoral coordination

Values

The Centre for AI & Climate is a values-led organisation. We hold the following values as being especially important in delivering our mission.

Impact: We are in a climate crisis. We need to be highly focussed on work that can have the most impact.
Think differently: We need to innovate in order to accelerate the transition. Business as usual is not enough. We need to be continuously seeking new and better ways of doing things.
User focus: Impact comes from listening carefully to those experiencing the challenges we are seeking to address, and rapidly building solutions to them.
Kindness: how we do things intrinsically impacts the outcome of our work. We seek to create an internal culture and external reach based on collaboration, inclusivity and kindness.

Values

The Centre for AI & Climate is a values-led organisation. We hold the following values as being especially important in delivering our mission:

Impact: We are in a climate crisis. We need to be highly focussed on work that can have the most impact. This means thinking big and being focussed.
Think differently: We need to innovate in order to accelerate the transition to net zero. We need to be continuously seeking new and better ways of doing things.
User focus: Impact comes from listening carefully to those experiencing the challenges we are seeking to address, and rapidly building solutions to help them.
Kindness: how we do things intrinsically impacts the outcome of our work. We seek to create an internal culture and external reach based on collaboration, inclusivity and kindness.