Organized by ISO – International Organization for Standardization, International Telecommunication Union and IEC (International Electrotechnical Commission), the AI Standards Summit was held in Seoul on December 2nd and 3rd, 2025.
At COP 30, two global competitions organized by the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) have put the spotlight on winning innovations using data, artificial intelligence (AI), and verification tools to boost efficiency and lower environmental impact both within the digital sector and beyond.
On December 12th, concluded the 7th UN Environmental Assembly, the world’s highest-level decision-making body for matters related to the environment, organized by the UN Environment Programme. After weeks-long negotiations, the Assembly adopted resolution UNEP/EA.7/Res.9 on “environmental sustainability of artificial intelligence systems”, proposed by Kenya, a founding member of the Coalition.
This event will outline a path for mainstreaming environmental sustainability across all workstreams of the Global Digital Compact (GDC) implementation. It will discuss the critical intersection of environmental sustainability and economic growth, guiding the environmentally sound development and use of digital technologies and AI. With a mixture of Member States from all regions, this event’s panel will focus on leaving no one behind in the implementation of the Principle (e) by addressing the digital divide and specifically the growing AI divide – where countries without strong digital infrastructure, data systems, or regulatory capacity risk being excluded from the benefits of technology.
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.
This side event, part of the Standards Pavilion @COP30, will explore how International Standardscan guide the responsible development and use of AI, ensuring transparency, accountability, and resource efficiency while reducing emissions across the tech ecosystem.
Organized with the Coalition for Sustainable AI, the session will showcase how ISO, the International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC), the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and partners are joining forces to build an eco-responsible digital future.
The French Ministry for the Ecological Transition’s Ecolab, in partnership with French Public Investment Bank Bpifrance’s EuroQuity platform and Coastal Cities NGO Waves of Change, officially launched the 2026 Tideline Startup Challenge. This global competition seeks open-source, AI-powered solutions that support climate adaptation and mitigation efforts in coastal territories and small island developing States (SIDS). During the June 1-2 finals held at Waves of Change International Forum for Coastal Cities in Biarritz – FR, projects demonstrating how AI is being used responsibly to address coastal-related challenges in innovative, impactful, and context-specific ways will be rewarded
Since March, the Coalition coordination team (France, ITU, UNEP) has been working on the mapping of all the international and collaborative initiatives on sustainable AI. This mapping is a valuable tool in promoting a greener AI internationally, aligning it with global environmental objectives and accelerating the ecological transition. It makes sure that we do not
