Marco Miozzo participated at the annual EU Climate Pact Flagship event  in Brussels, where together with other EU climate pact ambassadors discussed their actions with citizens and got inspired for climate activities.

 

He participated in the session on “AI for Climate Action: How to Enhance Citizen Engagement”, where the goal was to examine AI highlighting its impact and challenges to properly use it for climate actions.

 

In the session, many examples have been presented of how AI can be used for climate action, showing that its impact can be very positive for advancing. To do so, we have to move toward a more transparent paradigm compared to the black box and energy-hungry from the Big Techs. Distributed and decentralized solutions, such as the one studied in Sustainable Artificial Intelligence RU, can be a reliable alternative, enabling a more democratic AI paradigm that can maintain the sovereignty of our data and AI algorithms. We can replace the fear of AI for knowledge with transparent, decentralized, and conscious AI use.

 

In doing so, Marco joined an impressive team.

Frida Berry Eklund presented her open-source tool Klimatkollen, a citizen platform that provides climate data and builds support for reducing emissions.

Melanie Schutz introduced Ideascanner, her tool for accelerating digital transformation & sustainable innovation with AI

Ingmar Rentzhog showed us his work in We Don't Have Time, highlighting the importance of properly communicating our climate actions in an ethical, democratic, and open – working fashion.

Last but not least, Catarina Rolfsdotter-Jansson brilliantly moderated the panel.

It has been a really intense event, with more than 600 people involved, which allowed to get in contact with many climate activists and AI users who want to be more coherent when using digital technologies in their actions.

 

Link to the video.