Season 4: Post COP28 – AI and the business of climate action

UCL Minds

Happy Earth Day! This episode’s focus is on entrepreneurial climate action: what are businesses – particularly the AI sector – doing to combat the climate crisis and help reach net zero?  Helping our hosts Mark and Simon answer these questions are Sims Witherspoon (current UCL student studying for MSC in climate change and Climate and Sustainability Lead at Google DeepMind), Buffy Price (COO and Co-Founder of Carbon Re, an AI startup which aims to accelerate decarbonisation), and Zoe Cokeliss Barsley (Director of Sustainability at Oxford University Press) and UCL alumna (MSc Conservation 2003) Carbon Re https://carbonre.com/ Oxford University Press Responsible Publishing report https://oup.foleon.com/responsible-publishing-report-2022-23/2022-23/ For more information and to access the transcript: https://www.ucl.ac.uk/climate-change/podcasts-videos/generation-one-climate-podcast  Sign up to our climate newsletter here: https://r1.dotdigital-pages.com/p/6T06-7DL/subscribe-to-ucl-climate-hubs-newsletters  Date of episode recording: 14th February, 23rd February and 1st March 2024 Duration: 32.15 minutes Language of episode: English  Presenter: Mark Maslin and Simon Chin-Yee  Guests: Sims Witherspoon, Google DeepMind Buffy Price, Carbon Re Zoe Cokeliss Barsley, Oxford University Press Producer: Adam Batstone