At GTC 2025, a panel of industry leaders from across the tech ecosystem shared how they’re using AI to mitigate and prepare customers for the increasingly disruptive impact of climate change.
Tenika Versey, the global head of sustainable futures for the NVIDIA Inception program, led a panel that included Colin le Duc, founding partner at Generation Investment Management, Suzanne DiBianca, EVP and Chief Impact Officer at Salesforce, Shimon Elkabetz, CEO of Tomorrow.io, and Karthik Kashinath, distinguished scientist and engineer at NVIDIA.
“When CEOs are asked what keeps them up at night, what they uniformly say is: extreme weather events and cybersecurity,” said Elkabetz, Tomorrow.io’s CEO. “In every domain, in every industry, you can use AI to make better weather-related decisions at scale. Watching the weather channel on TV—that’s not enough.”
Colin le Duc, whose fund invests in climate-friendly companies, outlined how generative AI improves how his team identifies and integrates climate data into their investment decisions.
le Duc also explained AI’s role in Climate TRACE, a global, crowd-sourced initiative using multi-modal data to do real-time tracking of more than 600M point-sources of greenhouse gas emissions.
“A lot of people are increasingly trying to ignore climate change,” le Duc said, describing how the world is adding, rather than subtracting energy intensity. “But as an investor, risk doesn’t go away if you ignore it—that actually only creates even higher risks.”
Watch the recording of the panel session below.
Kashinath explained how tools like NVIDIA Earth-2, a platform for developing accelerated, AI-augmented, high-resolution climate and weather simulations, offer precise AI-powered climate solutions that were once inaccessible or too costly for many enterprises.
“Generative AI can fuze multimodal data and provide predictions about storms down to the street level,” Kashinath said. “AI is very good at synthesizing predictions and insights from many different modalities which can be used downstream by many different partners to impact how they respond to weather and climate impacts, and can, potentially, change outcomes.”
To view more recorded climate-related sessions from GTC 2025, click here.
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