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.
The ClimateCheck dataset bridges the gap between public discourse and scientific evidence by linking social media claims about climate change to relevant scholarly articles, facilitating automated fact-checking and evidence-based public dialogue.
A new study demonstrates that fine-tuned BERT models achieve competitive results with large language models for climate claim verification while processing claims 11-380 times faster, offering a more sustainable and practical solution for real-time fact-checking.
A groundbreaking reproducibility study on 29 climate-related NLP datasets reveals that most tasks rely on surface-level keyword patterns rather than deep understanding, with 96% of datasets containing annotation issues that compromise evaluation reliability.
A comprehensive curated database providing up-to-date insights, tools, and research on the intersection of AI and environmental applications, from conservation science to sustainability.
A free comprehensive Udemy course by Nathaniel Burola exploring the environmental impacts of data centers and strategies for decarbonization in the digital infrastructure sector.
Green IO Paris 2025 brings together 800+ responsible technologists to explore European Green IT initiatives, from responsible AI and green software to sustainable hardware and green cloud technologies.
New research reveals a troubling paradox: fact-checking demonstrably improves belief accuracy, yet can simultaneously reduce overall social welfare through controversy costs. This analysis explores the implications for information policy and democratic discourse.
EFRAG's consultation on simplified ESRS aimed to reduce reporting burden while maintaining quality. Researchers organized workshops to ensure the standards deliver usable data for analysis and research.
