Exploring AI solutions for climate change

AI has already had a substantial positive influence in the battle against global warming. However, quantifying its significance and characterizing its effects remain open problems. This article provides an overview of AI-reliant initiatives and projects for understanding and combating climate change, highlights existing research documenting the potential positive impact of AI on climate change, and identifies a set of obstacles to be overcome to ensure such use of AI is both practical and ethically sound. Climate change will profoundly affect environments, societies, and economies. Many of its environmental repercussions, from prolonged droughts to more devastating storms, are already being seen.