UNFCCC partners with Microsoft to use AI and advanced data technology to track global carbon emissions and assess progress under the Paris Agreement
Microsoft News, Wednesday, November 29,2023
Leaders from the United Nations and Microsoft Corp. announced a partnership that will enable the UNFCCC to create a new AI-powered platform and global climate data hub to measure and analyze global progress in reducing emissions.
This will dramatically simplify the process to validate and analyze climate data submitted by the 196 Parties to the Paris Agreement.
The partnership comes at a critical time, as the world's governments come together at COP28, organized by the UNFCCC and the COP28 UAE Presidency, to take stock of the slow progress in meeting the climate goals set by the Paris Agreement.
'The world must move faster to reduce carbon emissions. Simply put, you can't fix what you can't measure, and these new AI and data tools will allow nations to measure emissions far better than they can today,' said Brad Smith, vice chair and president of Microsoft.