Artificial Intelligence to Drive Climate Action Campaign

The United Nations’ ActNow Climate Campaign is a global call to citizen action on climate change. Taking advantage of technical innovation, the campaign harnesses advances in Artificial Intelligence (AI) to spur behavior change.

The Climate Action ActNow.bot recommends everyday actions to reduce our carbon footprints – like traveling more sustainably, saving energy, or eating less meat.

By registering your actions, you send a message to leaders in government and business that individuals like you want climate action and are willing to take it.

“I hear the calls of young people and I know other leaders are listening, too. Keep using your voices to sound the alarm on the climate emergency and the need to take climate action now,” said United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres who will organize the Climate Action Summit in September.

According to the UN, the campaign highlights the impact that collective action can have at this critical moment in our planet’s history. The more people act, the bigger the impact. It urges you to do your part to help reduce emissions – be part of a movement and show your support for urgent climate action.

The initiative comes not long after the UN’s Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change sounded the alarm bells with its special report on 1.5 degrees of global warming, warning that the world is headed towards a warming of over 3 degrees Celsius with current pledges under the 2015 Paris Climate Change Agreement.