This week in Zurich, the Adaptation Exchange—of which Climate+Tech is a founding partner—has a stand at Climate Week Zurich. 250+ events, 200+ partner organisations, one shared question: how do we actually implement climate resilience?
Analyzing 255 million paragraphs from 128,860 Form 10-K filings (2003–2025), this paper introduces the first scalable LLM-based measure of firm-level climate adaptation. Pre-event physical protection mitigates hurricane stock market losses by up to 37%, but financially constrained firms underadapt precisely when it matters most.
The idea that there is a global crisis of trust in scientists turns out to be largely a narrative, not a fact. A landmark 68-country survey finds most people trust scientists — but nuances around conservative politics, science-related populism, and research priority gaps matter enormously for science communication.
An EU-funded project combining universities and fact-checking organizations across Europe to build educational escape rooms that teach young people to recognize disinformation — open source, multilingual, and designed for schools.
The line between grassroots activism and automated influence is collapsing. A new paper by Anton Gollwitzer, Jonas R. Kunst, Gary Marcus, and others introduces 'cyborg propaganda' — AI-assisted campaigns that use real, verified humans as distribution channels for algorithmically optimized messages.
Over 50 European scholars warn that the Commission's 'simplification' push risks normalizing emergency lawmaking that undermines EU Treaty-based safeguards on participatory democracy, transparency, and the rule of law.
Working paper argues that 'simplicity by design' can only reduce bureaucracy if operationalised through outcome-first lawmaking, balanced democratic participation, disciplined use of exemptions, and mandatory ex post evaluation.
Leading researchers from Oxford, Cambridge, Harvard, Yale, and Berkeley warn in Science about a new escalation in information warfare: coordinated AI agent swarms that autonomously infiltrate communities and fabricate consensus, threatening democratic processes worldwide.
New research analyzes Colombia's diesel subsidy phase-out through a social contract framework, revealing how trust-building, inclusive consultation, and structural reforms are critical for successful fossil fuel subsidy transitions.
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.
Building on the success of ClimateCheck 2025, the 2026 edition expands to include disinformation narrative classification using the CARDS taxonomy, with substantially more training data and a focus on sustainable, real-world NLP systems.
