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

Open data platform for geospatial analysis and environmental risk.

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.

Open data for climate and environmental intelligence from NASA.

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.

Open data platform for assessing climate-related physical risks.

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.

Open data for assessing nature-related physical risks and biodiversity.

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.

Open data for environmental risk and sustainability reporting from UNEP WESR.

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.

Open-access platform for exploring and visualizing climate and environmental datasets.

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.