Environmental Justice

Rethinking AI tools for climate action through frugal and community-centered design

Denisse Albornoz
Olivia Johnson
Aug 13, 2026

This is the first in a three-part series sharing findings from our AI for Climate Action project, which is mapping community-centered AI tools for climate action across Latin America, Africa, and Asia. This series explores three themes emerging from our research. In this first post, we look at how organizations make decisions when considering AI for climate action. The next posts will explore data practices and the role of AI in supporting social movements.

An evolving commitment to feminist digital infrastructures

Paola Mosso
Aug 9, 2023

In our time of climate emergency and growing efforts to erode democratic relationships and information ecosystems, perspectives around equity, enjoyment and care help us reimagine futures that nurture and regenerate relationships and natural ecosystems.

Innovation is not for free

Julia Keseru
Mar 16, 2023

How can we continue experimenting with technology’s liberatory potential, without sacrificing too much?

How can the digital rights community support Climate Justice?

Barbara Paes
Sara Baker
Nov 4, 2022

After publishing our report exploring the intersections of digital rights, tech and climate justice, we wanted to make space to collectively imagine what it would look like to turn our research findings into action.

Report: Improving Access to Water Services in Sierra Leone

Nonso Jideofor
Apr 16, 2018

In 2017, we partnered with Code for Sierra Leone through our Matchbox Program to collaborate on a project that aimed to improve access to water in Sierra Leone through information and communication technologies (ICTs). Last month, we shared a blogpost detailing opportunities we identified, and highlighted the need to build upon existing local solutions. This […]

Using Data on Rainforests to Influence Investors: Our New Quick-Start Guide

Tom Walker
Jul 1, 2016

How can social change organisations influence companies to do the right thing for the environment? One way is to influence the people and organisations who invest in them. For example, Rainforest Foundation Norway (RFN) has successfully made the world’s largest sovereign wealth fund, Norway’s Government Pension Fund Global (GPFG), adopt tropical deforestation as a priority issue in reducing […]