UN Secretary General Urges AI Giants to Disclose Environmental Impact
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Climate crisis: Guterres lays out solutions blueprint for clean energy transition - EnviroNews - latest environment news, climate change, renewable energy
As a deadly heatwave continued to grip Europe on Tuesday, June 23, 2026, UN Secretary-General, António Guterres, issued an impassioned appeal for more ambitious global action on climate change caused by fossil fuels, to prevent irreversible damage. In a major keynote speech at London Climate Action Week, the UN chief called on AI firms to “come clean” on the full environmental impact of data centres in terms their carbon, water and land footprin…
Faced with the enormous energy consumption of data centers, the UN launched the AI Environmental Transparency Initiative, which aims to force companies to publish their carbon footprint, their use of water and land. The goal is a transition to renewable energy by 2030 and a greater honesty towards people.
AI companies should release environmental impact, commit to clean energy, says UN chief
Photo courtesy of STOCK By ALEXA ST. JOHN Associated Press United Nations Secretary-General António Guterres on Tuesday called on artificial intelligence companies to release information about the carbon pollution they create, along with the water and land used to power their operations. While urging action in an address at London Climate Action Week, Guterres proposed the AI Environmental Transparency Initiative, arguing AI companies should mea…
On 23 June, UN Secretary-General António Guterres called on all major companies associated with AI to measure and make public the environmental impact of their systems: carbon emissions, water consumption and land use, as well as to commit to supplying all data centres with renewable energy by 2030. [...] The post UN Secretary-General asks the whole truth about the climate cost of AI appeared first on ChannelNews.
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