Scaling Climate Solutions: From AI Innovation to Global Impact

Venue: Standards Pavillion
Time: 12 November 2025, 14:30 – 15:45

Introduction 
As climate challenges accelerate, artificial intelligence is emerging as a powerful catalyst for scalable, science-driven solutions for climate resilience, mitigation and sustainable transformation. The  ITU AI for Good Innovation Factory has become a platform for nurturing early-stage, high-impact AI solutions with the potential to scale.  

This session spotlighted the latest success stories from the Innovation Factory, featuring winning teams whose AI-powered solutions had been driving measurable climate action including an AI-powered software to achieve net-zero and an intelligent system that automatically verified the quality and impact of clean energy projects. It also highlighted a winning solution from the UNFCCC AI for Climate Action Challenge, showcasing synergies between global climate governance and frontier AI innovation. 

Beyond the pitches, the discussion expanded to explore how these innovations could move from pilots to scalable impact — through industry partnerships, open data, supportive policies, and international standards. Representatives from the private sector, regional and international organizations, standards development organization discussed how collaboration and standardization can help transform promising AI prototypes into trusted, interoperable, and globally deployable climate solutions.  Panellists highlighted real-world success stories, demonstrating how AI-powered solutions for climate action had been effectively deployed and scaled.  

Objectives: 
This session: 
1) spotlighted the latest success stories from the Innovation Factory, featuring winning teams whose AI-powered solutions are driving measurable climate action;
2) highlighted a winning solution from the UNFCCC AI for Climate Action Challenge, showcasing synergies between global climate governance and frontier AI innovation;
3) explored how these innovations can move from pilots to scalable impact — through industry partnerships, open data, supportive policies, and international standards. 

Target audience 
This Side Event was open to all.  

 Agenda
Host: Alayna Van Dervort  
Opening remarks: Seizo Onoe, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau

Winner Pitches – AI for Good Innovation Factory  – AI Driven climate solutions
This segment featured two winning teams from the AI for Good Innovation Factory showcasing their AI-driven solutions for climate action. The presentations highlighted innovative applications of artificial intelligence that supported climate resilience, adaptation, and sustainability across different sectors. 

Speakers:
Team 1: Marco Funk, Enerlink 
Team 2:  Salaal Hasan, Ahya 

Spotlight: UNFCCC AI for Climate Action Winner  
Alisa Luangrath 

Panel discussion 
This panel explored emerging tools, metrics, and standards to measure AI’s environmental footprint. It highlighted ongoing standardization work, collaboration with international organizations, and partnerships between governments, industry, and academia to advance sustainable and accountable digital infrastructures. 

Moderator 
Vishal Jain (GreenMind)  
Panellists: 
Vijay Karia (Opticloud)  
Marco Funk (Enerlink) 
Salaal Hasan (Ahya) 
Bjorn-Soren Gigler, DG Clima, European Commission- on the EC AI based tool for cities  

Closing remarks