About Adopt AI
This November 25-26, 2025, the Grand Palais will host the business-focused continuation of the AI Action Summit. This gathering will welcome CEOs and C-level executives from around the globe to engage with industry leaders from CAC40 corporations, dynamic startups, unicorns, and global tech partners on several tracks: AI for Finance, AI for Health, AI for the Planet and many more…
About the Session
Wednesday 26/11
From 4:05PM to 4:30PM
Adopt AI Conference, Grand Palais, Paris
Artificial Intelligence (AI) is reshaping economies and societies—but its environmental footprint is rapidly expanding. Training and deploying large-scale AI models demands vast amounts of electricity, water, computing power, and increasingly scarce semiconductor resources. Studies show that the energy used to train a single large model can emit as much carbon as five cars in their lifetime. With the growing adoption of AI across sectors, ensuring energy efficiency and sustainability becomes an urgent priority.
At the same time, AI offers powerful capabilities to drive environmental progress. From climate modeling and disaster prediction to smart grids and sustainable agriculture, AI can accelerate climate adaptation and mitigation strategies—particularly in low-resource settings.
This dual challenge frames the Green AI agenda, aligned with UNESCO’s and the Coalition broader work on green digital transformation and AI sustainability:
- Greening AI – Reducing the environmental impact of AI systems by promoting energy-efficient model design, and sustainable data and digital infrastructures.
- Greening with AI – Harnessing AI to accelerate progress toward the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs), net-zero transitions, and climate resilience.
This session, organized by UNESCO, builds on reflections from COP30 in Belém, and anticipates key global moments including the upcoming India AI Summit (February 2026), which will emphasize resilience and efficiency as key pillars of AI innovation.
The session will be moderated by Guilherme Canela, Director for Division for Digital Inclusion and Policies and Digital Transformation, UNESCO, with 3 speakers:
- Paul Pelissier, Global Sustainability Principal, SAP EMEA
- Hélène Costa de Beauregard, Project Director, French Ministry of Ecological Transition
- Abou Amani, Director of Hydrology, Natural Sciences Sector, UNESCO
How to attend
- Register for ADOPT AI : https://adoptai.artefact.com/content/inscription
- Learn more about the session
