Insights on Climate, Climate Risk, Adaptation and Artificial Intelligence (AI)

The DGNB Certification AI Tool is your digital assistant, simplifying the DGNB certification journey and promoting sustainable building practices.

Horizon Europe call HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-HERITAGE-02 is an Innovation Action funding new methods to grow creative startups into scaleups or to bring disruptive innovation to market, validated through at least three real-world pilot trials. EUR 12 million, deadline 23 September 2026.

This 2025 preprint from Costello, Pennycook, and Rand asks a sharper question than their original Science study: is it the facts, or the AI, doing the persuading? Across two experiments (N = 2,348) and eight variations, removing persuasive framing barely mattered; removing the facts broke the effect.

After 18 months of R&D, Carbon Brief launched Project Cosmos — a citation-linked database of more than 1.8 million climate publications, with Cosmos 500 rankings of highly cited authors, papers, and institutions.

Poor science communication is still damaging climate politics today. We think the fix — building science-aware societies and citizen scientists — is a logical next step. But science itself has a democratic-access problem, much like climate risk does. We're researching whether art, which faces a parallel funding bottleneck, can help open both up.

GARP tested 13 physical climate risk vendors against the same 100 properties worldwide. The correlation between vendors' flood damage-ratio estimates ranged from 0.2 to 0.9, one vendor geocoded a Boston property 1,507 km away in Atlanta, and dispersion behaves in opposite directions depending on which statistic you use to measure it.

Green IO returns to London in autumn 2026 with candid practitioner conversations on GreenOps, sustainable CI/CD, public-sector digital sustainability, and carbon-aware infrastructure — building on a community that attendees describe as 'the real deal'.

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.

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.

An insightful look into how corporate lobbying activities influence climate change mitigation efforts, revealing the dichotomy between public commitments and actual lobbying practices.

Explore the profound ways in which AI is reshaping the sustainability sector and empowering professionals with new tools and insights.

Horizon Europe call HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-DEMOCRACY-10 funds research into how digital and media literacy build democratic and civic resilience against disinformation, FIMI, and algorithmic polarisation. EUR 12 million, three projects, deadline 23 September 2026.