The USL held a public in-person event on September 21, 2023 at 9am EST at The New School’s Tishman Auditorium. The event brought together experts from the New York City’s Mayor's Office as well as climate technology analysts, philanthropy, and city network leaders for an engaging discussion on the potential and challenge of leveraging technologies like Artificial Intelligence (AI) to accelerate climate action. Organized by Google.org, the Centre for Public Impact, The New School, and World Resources Institute (WRI), this event featured live demonstrations of two novel solutions from The New School’s Urban Systems Lab and WRI which will be followed by a moderated panel discussion to discuss how AI can unlock climate resilience at the community level. Panelists included Rohit T. Aggarwala, Commissioner, New York City Department of Environmental Protection, Dr. Mahmoud Mohieldin, Executive Director, International Monetary Fund, Gino Van Begin, Secretary General, Local Governments for Sustainability (ICLEI), Jaya Dhindaw and Evan Tachovsky, from WRI as well as Alexander J. Diaz from Google.org among others.

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