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

Open data for assessing climate and nature-related transition risks.

Horizon Europe call HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-TRANSFO-07 funds research into the competences workers and young people need for the green transition, in one of five sectors: agriculture and food, automotive, energy, construction, or nature and climate adaptation. EUR 12 million, deadline 23 September 2026.

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.

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.

Explore the ESA Climate Change Initiative (CCI)—an open data platform providing satellite-based climate data and tools for risk assessment and adaptation planning.

Horizon Europe call HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-DEMOCRACY-02 funds research into how local democratic practice works in low- and low-middle income countries, including fragile contexts, decentralisation, and the link between public service delivery and pro-democratic sentiment. EUR 12 million, deadline 23 September 2026.

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.

ecoCompute 2025 brings together software developers, hardware designers, and data center professionals to create a sustainable digital future in Berlin this November.

Open data for infrastructure climate risk assessment and resilience.

Horizon Europe call HORIZON-CL2-2026-01-TRANSFO-10 funds a single SSH-STEM Action at European level: a new monitoring and impact evaluation framework, annual reporting on SSH-STEM cooperation, guidelines and training, and a science-for-policy forum. EUR 3.5 million, deadline 23 September 2026.

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.

Open data for climate change projections and risk assessment from the IPCC.