AI and Climate Futures: Reimagining Climate Action in the Age of AI

​Artificial Intelligence is increasingly being positioned as a powerful tool for climate action, with applications spanning climate modelling, extreme weather prediction, energy optimisation, urban planning, environmental monitoring, adaptation finance, and disaster response. At the same time, the rapid expansion of AI raises urgent questions about its own sustainability impacts, including energy use, water demand, data centre expansion, mineral extraction, labour conditions, and the concentration of technological power.

​This participatory workshop, co-hosted by Transitions Research and the Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP), University College London, will explore AI and climate as a contested futures question. The session will examine how emerging AI-climate systems may reshape resilience, governance, public infrastructure, knowledge systems, and sustainability transitions. Through short expert provocations and a guided foresight activity, participants will consider what kinds of climate futures AI may enable, constrain, or foreclose.

​The participatory workshop will take place from 2:30–4:00 PM BST, followed by informal networking.

Run by:

UCL Department of Science, Technology, Engineering and Public Policy (STEaPP): Bipashyee Ghosh, Preeti Raghunath, Leonie Dunn & Amaya H.

​TR: Vikrom Mathur, Bharath Haridas, Angelina Chaumah & Shraddha More