{"id":1229,"date":"2025-10-14T09:28:25","date_gmt":"2025-10-14T09:28:25","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/initiatives\/green-digital-action\/?page_id=1229"},"modified":"2025-11-21T11:04:06","modified_gmt":"2025-11-21T11:04:06","slug":"cop30-announcement-artificial-intelligence-climate-institute","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/initiatives\/green-digital-action\/events\/cop30\/cop30-announcement-artificial-intelligence-climate-institute\/","title":{"rendered":"COP30 Announcement: Artificial Intelligence Climate Institute"},"content":{"rendered":"    <section>\n    <div class=\"text-section\">\n        <div class=\"ituContainer grid\">\n                                        <div class=\"text-section-left\" data-span=\"8\">\n                        <h2 class=\"h3\">\n            <\/h2>\n                        <h3 class=\"h5\">\n        Time: 11 November, 14:00-15:00<br>Venue: Thematic Room 2, Action Agenda Thematic Space, Blue Zone    <\/h3>\n                        <p>\n        <strong>Objective<\/strong><br>Official announcement of the Artificial Intelligence Climate Institute to empower developing countries with AI skills for climate action\u2014bridging digital divides and fostering sustainable innovation.<br><br><strong>Speakers<\/strong><br>Mr. Frederico de Siqueira Filho, Minister, Brazilian Ministry of Communications<br>Mr. Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary General, International Telecommunications Union (ITU)<br>Ms. Nigar Arpadarai, UN High Level Climate Champion of COP29<br>Mr. Guilherme Canela, Director for Division for Digital Inclusion and Policies and Digital Transformation, United Nations Educational, Scientific and Cultural Organization (Unesco)<br>Dr Maria Jo\u00e3o Sousa, Executive Director, Climate Change AI<br>Mr Fabro Steibel, Executive Director, Institute Technology and Society (ITS Rio)<br>Mr Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva, Member of the Technology Executive Committee (TEC) and Coordinator for ST&amp;I, Climate Department, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil<br>Dr Renata Tedeschi, Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico Vale, student of the pilot workshop<br><br><strong>Target audience<\/strong><br>Policy makers, philanthropies, tech industry, educators, NGOs in the climate and digital sectors, financial institutions<br><br><strong>Key objectives<\/strong><br>1) Presented the successful pilot workshop of the institute in Bel\u00e9m (13\u201317 October 2025), which demonstrated AI-driven climate solutions for developing regions.<br>2) Officially announced the Artificial Intelligence Climate Institute (AICI).<br>3) Presented the 2026\u20132027 operational plan to build AI capacity for climate action across the Global South.<br>4) Introduced the project of an open digital learning repository with resources on AI and climate.<br>5) Mobilized partnerships among governments, development banks, philantropies and private actors for implementation and scaling.<br><br><strong>Agenda<\/strong><br>2 min <strong>Welcome &amp; Introduction<\/strong> <br>             <em> Speaker:<\/em> Fabro Steibel, ITS Rio<br><br>2 min <strong>Opening remarks<\/strong><br>              <em>Speaker:<\/em> Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva, UNFCCC TEC, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil<br><br>3 min <strong>Remarks<\/strong><br>              <em>Speaker:<\/em> Nigar Arpadarai, UN High Level Climate Champion of COP29<br><br>25 min <strong>The AI Climate Institute pilot workshop <\/strong>(Bel\u00e9m, 13-17\/10)<br>               <em>Speakers<\/em>: Maria Jo\u00e3o Sousa, Climate Change AI<br>                                     Renata Tedeschi, Instituto Tecnol\u00f3gico Vale, student of the pilot workshop<br>                \u25cf Programme overview<br>                \u25cf Students and lecturers<br>                \u25cf Lessons learned<br><br>25 min <strong>AI Climate Institute \u2013 Official Announcement<\/strong><br>                <em>Speakers:<\/em> Frederico de Siqueira Filho, Minister, Brazilian Ministry of Communications<br>                                      Tomas Lamanauskas, Deputy Secretary General, ITU<br>                                      Guilherme Canela, Director for Division for Digital Inclusion and Policies and Digital Transformation, UNESCO<br>               \u25cf 2-year plan<br>               \u25cf Call for partnerships<br><br>3 min <strong>Closing Remarks<\/strong> <br>             <em>Speaker:<\/em> Pedro Ivo Ferraz da Silva, UNFCCC TEC, Ministry of Foreign Affairs of Brazil<br>    <\/p>\n            <\/div>\n                                        <div class=\"text-section-right data-span-override\" data-span=\"4\">\n            <\/div>\n                            <\/div>\n        <\/div>\n    <\/section>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"","protected":false},"author":7,"featured_media":0,"parent":1204,"menu_order":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","template":"","meta":{"footnotes":""},"class_list":["post-1229","page","type-page","status-publish","hentry"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/initiatives\/green-digital-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1229","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/initiatives\/green-digital-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/initiatives\/green-digital-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/page"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/initiatives\/green-digital-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/7"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/initiatives\/green-digital-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=1229"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/initiatives\/green-digital-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1229\/revisions"}],"up":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/initiatives\/green-digital-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/pages\/1204"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.itu.int\/initiatives\/green-digital-action\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=1229"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}