How firms are using AI to cut their carbon emissions - Raconteur

There has been a growing realisation among businesses in recent years that becoming environmentally sustainable is a must, not a choice. Customers, investors and employees and industry regulators are all putting pressure on them to act before the climate crisis worsens to calamitous levels. Alongside this, the willingness of companies to publicise their progress in reducing their ecological impact is increasing. More than 3,400 organisations, with a combined market cap of £21.4tn, have registered their support for the Task Force on Climate-Related Financial Disclosures since it published its first reporting recommendations in 2017, for instance. AI has a key role to play in helping firms to hit the ambitious net-zero CO2 emissions targets they are setting themselves. The Global AI Adoption Index 2022, IBM's latest annual survey of uptake, found that two-thirds of the 7,500 IT chiefs it polled were either using AI to achieve sustainability goals or planning to do so.