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Balancing Innovation and Sustainability: Navigating AI’s Impact on Climate Change
What measures did the private and public sectors take to ensure AI dose not lead to a significant rise in carbon emissions?
AI revolutionised the fight against climate change, from predicting extreme weather patterns to optimising waste management. However, its vast energy demands risked increasing carbon emissions, with some multinational corporations reporting up to a 30% rise. What measures did the private and public sectors take to ensure AI dose not lead to a significant rise in carbon emissions? This session explored how to harness AI’s power for climate solutions without undermining decarbonisation efforts.
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MICHAL NACHMANY
Founder & CEO, Climate Policy Radar
Dr Michal Nachmany is the Founder and CEO of Climate Policy Radar, a not-for-profit organisation on a mission to organise, analyse, and democratise data on climate law and policy globally. She is passionate about responsible, human-centred use of AI to accelerate action on climate and nature.
Michal is an international expert in climate policy and governance with a background in law and finance. She advises the UN-led Initiative on Climate Action Transparency (ICAT) and is a Fellow of the UNFCCC Resilience Frontiers. She is also a Visiting Fellow at the Grantham Research Institute at LSE, where she spent a decade leading efforts to develop evidence-based decision-support tools for national legislation and for responsible investment, collaborating with parliaments and governments globally, the UN, and responsible investor coalitions such as CA100+.
Michal holds a PhD in climate policy from the London School of Economics, along with an MA in Energy Policy and Management, an LLB in Law, and an MBA specialising in finance.
MARIE EKELAND
Founder & President, 2050
There are a thousand ways to introduce Marie Ekeland. However, any effort to label her would deny her core identity as she is bridging worlds and cultures, constantly empowering innovators to achieve their visions.
Marie’s approach is rooted in an extraordinary journey within French Tech. At 30, within the investment fund Elaia Partners, she first detected Criteo, which she advised and followed until 2016, 3 years after its IPO. In the same spirit, she co-founded France Digitale to give voice to a sector still in its early stages of development. She became the first woman in Europe to create a €150 million fund. In 2015, daphni was born with a value proposal already very different from the market. Her current portfolio is divided into London, New York, Montpellier, Paris, and San Francisco. It reflects her taste for diversity: education (Holberton School), health and nutrition (Lifen and Zoe), culture (Keakr), finance (Shine, sold to Société Générale in the summer of 2020), green mobility (Zoov), well-being at work (Swile). While head of the French Digital Council (2017), Marie realized the urgency of moving forward on fundamental issues such as biodiversity and diversity and sketched out the first steps of a new adventure targeting the world’s significant challenges.
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JEN GENNAI
Head of Responsible AI, T3 Consultants
Jen Gennai is a globally recognized authority in Responsible AI, known for pioneering ethical AI practices. As the Head of Responsible AI at T3 Consultants, Jen has established herself as one of the foremost voices in the industry, pioneering efforts to integrate ethical considerations into AI development on a large scale. Jen’s career is marked by her foundational role at Google, where she founded and led the Responsible Innovation team, co-authoring Google’s AI Principles in 2017, which set industry benchmarks for fairness, privacy, and societal impact. A sought-after speaker at international forums like Davos and UNESCO, she has shaped key AI regulations and standards, including the EU AI Act or the NIST guidelines, solidifying her as a transformative force in AI governance. Through her thought leadership and practical contributions, Jen Gennai has become a pivotal figure in the global conversation on how to balance AI innovation with ethical responsibility.
ADAM ELMAN
Director, EMEA, Google
Adam is a sustainability leader with over 18 years of experience in driving positive transformational change for some of the world’s most influential companies. As Google’s Director of Sustainability for Europe, Middle East, and Africa, he works at the intersection of the physical, digital, and natural worlds. He coordinates with Google’s real-world and digital infrastructure teams, from real estate and supply chains to data centers and products, to ensure that the company is taking advantage of opportunities to strategically advance sustainability.
Previously, Adam held senior sustainability roles at Amazon, Marks & Spencer, and Klöckner Pentaplast, where he developed and delivered innovative sustainability strategies and programs that enhanced their environmental, social, and governance performance. He is a Chartered Environmentalist and a Fellow of both IEMA and ICRS, and an Executive Fellow at King’s Business School. He has been recognized as one of the UK’s top 100 environmental professionals and among the top 50 sustainability thought leaders and influencers globally. He is passionate about creating a more sustainable and inclusive future for everyone.
MATT FARQUHARSON
Editor in Chief, The Conduit
Matt Farquharson is editor-in-chief at The Conduit. He is a Sunday-Times-bestselling author, former writer for The Times, The Independent and The Telegraph, and an award-winning editor, podcaster and script-writer.
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