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Global Initiative on Resilience to Natural Hazards through AI Solutions

Global GreeceItalySlovakiaSpain

The Global Initiative on Resilience to Natural Hazards through AI Solutions seeks to advance the use of AI and other emerging technologies in disaster management while ensuring it is safe, responsible, and effective. A core focus of the initiative is laying the foundation for international AI standards and best practices to guide the design, deployment, and governance of AI solutions for hazard detection, monitoring, response, and recovery. By convening expert working groups, workshops, collaborative challenges, and connecting the dots between standards and existing proof-of-concept projects connecting the dots between standards and existing proof-of-concept projects, initiative provides a platform for governments, industry, and civil society to contribute to interoperable, ethical, and inclusive AI frameworks. Through these standards-driven efforts, the initiative aims to strengthen resilience to natural hazards and support the UN’s broader goals of disaster management, sustainable development, and technological innovation.

Activity Type AI Tools/SolutionsTrainings/WorkshopsResearch/Reports/AssessmentsPolicy/Regulatory GuidanceAwareness/AdvocacyNetworks/Mentorship/Exchange

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AI Sub-Group of Early Warnings for All Initiative

Asia and the Pacific FijiTongaVanuatu

An AI sub-group leveraging AI to build more resilient and effective early warning systems. The project uses advanced AI to identify and quantify populations lacking connectivity, enhancing targeted early warning capabilities and intervention strategies.

Activity Type Research/Reports/AssessmentsPolicy/Regulatory Guidance

UNFCCC

UNFCCC Technology Mechanism Initiative on Artificial Intelligence for Climate Action

Global developing countriesLDCsSIDS

This initiative aims to explore the role of AI as a powerful technological tool for advancing and scaling up transformative climate solutions for mitigation and adaptation action in developing countries with a focus on LDCs and SIDS, while also addressing the challenges and risks posed by artificial intelligence.

Activity Type Policy/Regulatory GuidanceResearch/Reports/AssessmentsTechnical assistance

UNFCCC

AI Innovation Grand Challenge

Global

The UNFCCC Technology Executive Committee (TEC) launched the AI Innovation Grand Challenge in partnership with Enterprise Neurosystem. The challenge is a climate innovation competition to identify new AI applications for climate mitigation and adaptation action in developing countries and to make them available open-source as a public good.

Activity Type Research/Reports/Assessments