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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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

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.