Horizon Europe call HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-HERITAGE-01 funds research on art-science-technology collaboration: evidence, toolkits, and evaluation methods, plus either soft-skills frameworks or at least three low-TRL pilots on emerging technologies. EUR 15 million, deadline 23 September 2026.
In a peer-reviewed Science study with over 5,000 UK participants, Google DeepMind's Habermas Machine generated group statements on divisive issues that people preferred over human-mediated ones, and helped groups converge on shared positions, while still incorporating minority critiques rather than just following the majority.
Google DeepMind's openly released dataset and prompted implementation of the Habermas Machine, the AI mediation system behind the peer-reviewed Science study on AI-assisted democratic deliberation.
Climate and societal risk under climate change is inherently uncertain, still under active research, and hampered by real gaps in prediction data. Institutions have often answered with single 'scores' — Decision Making under Deep Uncertainty (DMDU) offers a different approach: test many futures, see which policies survive.
CarbonPlan asked nine climate risk analytics companies for the same fire and flood risk data on 342 real addresses. Seven declined or didn't respond. The two that participated agreed only weakly on which properties were most at risk — and CarbonPlan argues that industry non-participation is itself the finding.
Germany's governing coalition plans to restrict the Informationsfreiheitsgesetz — the law that lets citizens request government documents. A coalition of 110 organisations, including Climate+Tech, says the changes would gut transparency.
At Tolhuistuin in June, Green IO Amsterdam explored whether Dutch pragmatism can turn Green IT measurement into organisational impact — from TNO's national ICT footprint work to embedding GreenOps in Rabobank's GenAI rollout.
Call for evidence / participants: The European Commission's Better Regulation consultation is open until February 4, 2026. Join our working group to provide coordinated, evidence-based feedback.
The first ClimateCheck shared task at SDP 2025 challenged participants to build systems for scientific fact-checking of climate claims, with tasks focusing on abstract retrieval and claim verification against a corpus of 394,269 climate science publications.
A free comprehensive Udemy course by Nathaniel Burola exploring the environmental impacts of data centers and strategies for decarbonization in the digital infrastructure sector.
Join us in exploring the tactics companies use to evade carbon emission compliance and the implications for environmental policy, with expert insights from Lolie Cambolive.
The Carbon Footprint Modeling Tool is a pivotal innovation for environmental scientists, policymakers, and organizations, aiming to model and reduce carbon footprints through improved data transparency.
