Workshop on Artificial Intelligence for Carbon
Climate change is one of the defining challenges of our time, driven by the accumulation of greenhouse gases—particularly carbon dioxide—in the atmosphere. At the heart of this challenge lies the global carbon cycle, a dynamic system that regulates the flow of carbon between the Earth’s atmosphere, oceans, ecosystems, and geological reservoirs. While natural processes have maintained this balance for millennia, human activities—from fossil fuel combustion to land-use changes—now release nearly 40 gigatons of CO₂ annually, overwhelming the planet’s natural sinks and accelerating global warming. To mitigate and adapt to these changes, we need unprecedented innovation in how we monitor, model, and manage carbon fluxes and their interactions with the climate and socio-economic systems.
This workshop, organized from June 30 to July 2, 2025, within the CMCC Program on Integration of the planetary biogeochemical and industrial carbon cycle (ICC), explored the potential of Artificial Intelligence (AI) in advancing carbon science and its benefits to society. The Scientific Director of the Program is Shayegh Soheil, Scientist at the EIEE.
CMCC Speakers
- Dr. Guido Ascenso.
- Dr. Manuela Balzarolo
- Dr. Italo Epicoco
- Dr. Ronan McAdam
- Dr. Simone Mereu
- Dr. Carlos Rodriguez Pardo
External Speakers
- Dr. Sara Beery
- Dr. Laure Berti-Equille
- Dr. Gustau Camps-Valls
- Dr. Millie Chapman
- Dr. Ioana Colfescu
- Mr. Miguel Jiménez
- Dr. Konstantin Klemmer
- Dr. Raphaela Andrea Kotsch
- Dr. Vipin Kumar
- Dr. Christian Lessig
- Dr. Claire Monteleoni.
- Dr. Amirpasha Mozaffari.
- Dr. S. Karthik Mukkavilli
- Dr. Arthur Ouaknine
- Dr. Maria Perez Ortiz
- Dr. Esther Rolf
- Dr. Bruno Sanchez-Andrade Nuño
- Dr. Katarzyna (Kasia) B. Tokarska de los Santos
Funded/Co-funded by the European Union (ERC, EUNICE, project number: 101044703). Views and opinions expressed are however those of the author(s) only and do not necessarily reflect those of the European Union or the European Research Council. Neither the European Union nor the granting authority can be held responsible for them.
About the ICC Program
The Integration of the planetary biogeochemical and industrial Carbon Cycle (ICC) Program is one of four strategic research programs within CMCC, focusing on understanding and shaping the new paradigm of building a net-zero carbon economy which is essential to providing quantitative and narrative analyses of socio-economic systems in the context of a sustainable and resilient future.
About the EUNICE project
EUNICE is a project funded from the European Research Council (ERC) to explore deep uncertainties in climate change. It leverages AI methods to quantify the physical and socio-economic repercussions of climate extremes and to identify robust strategies towards climate neutrality.
