On 18 March, the Centre for Climate Engagement hosted an event on Regulating AI for Climate and Nature, as part of the Cambridge Festival, Green Week at Hughes Hall and Cambridge Climate Week.
The event featured a keynote from Yu-Ting Kuo, Corporate Vice President at Microsoft, a presentation from Nick Scott, Manager of the Law for Climate Action Programme at CCE, and a panel discussion chaired by Professor Harro Van Asselt, Hatton Professor of Climate Law, featuring the following speakers:
- Lynn Dicks, Professor of Ecology at the Department of Zoology and the Conservation Research Institute.
- Dr Loïc Lannelongue, Assistant Research Professor at the Department of Public Health and Primary Care, and PI of the Cambridge Sustainable Computing Lab.
- Giulia Trojano, Senior Associate and AI expert at Hausfeld.
- Richard Turner, Professor of Machine Learning in the Department of Engineering at the University of Cambridge and Research Lead for AI for Weather Prediction at the Alan Turing Institute.
The CCE would like to thank our event partners Cambridge Zero, the Conservation Research Institute, Cambridge Institute of Sustainability Leadership, and the Cambridge Climate Society for their support in delivering this insightful discussion, takeaways of which are outlined in this summary.
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The discussion explored key questions at the intersection of policy, climate, nature and artificial intelligence, drawing on insights from a recent working paper titled Regulating the AI-Climate Nexus, authored by Nick Scott, Manager for Law and Climate Action at the Centre for Climate Engagement.