From Sludge to Gold: Co-Creating Science-Based AI for City Climate Action

Cities face pressure to serve as the key lever for translating climate targets into action. Most existing AI-supported digital tools designed to support cities in this task focus on sifting through existing approaches in the hope of identifying best practices.

But what happens if we are mining for gold, but only find sludge?

We need an approach to leverage AI's potential to generate novel ideas.

In this session, experts from ClimateView, ICLEI, and GCoM introduce the Transition Element Framework as an IPCC science-based guide for combining generative AI with climate modelling. The AI Intervention Library prototype will be shown as an example, generating interventions to create enabling conditions for defined shifts and tying them to real-world examples.

In parallel, city practitioners from ICLEI member cities, such as Kaohsiung, who have actively participated in co-creative workshops to define the next generation of the AI Intervention Library, share their experiences as active co-creators of a future resource that they and other cities can benefit from, and share insights into their own use of technology to accelerate climate action.