Bringing together different AI stakeholders of industries, academia, public sectors, international organizations, emerging generations, and wider audiences from the ecosystem of sustainable development, this workshop encourages grounded, contextualized, and innovative solutions on AI policies that can be effective to accommodate different countries, regions, and communities on better positioning AI as an eco-friendly contribution to the society. While AI is generally being used as an example of emerging technologies, the workshop extends its discussions to other forms of emerging technologies, wherever the contexts fit.

Contributing to the discussion, a kick-off presentation reflecting the Report on “AI, emerging Technologies, and Environmental Efficiency: A Baseline Study among International digital Policymakers” is arranged to share findings from the study that includes scoping exercises of different regions around the world, represented by 20+ countries, to further understand multiple national policy debates around broader technology sectors, energy efficiency and environmental sustainability as well as to provide policy analysis to act on designing a system to support eco-friendly AI.

Following the presentation, the multistakeholder discussion aims to address AI and Environment Policy with multi-dimensional factors, including discursive, relativistic, contextual, and interdependent dimensions from communal to global levels, sharing the differences among the Global North and the Global South. To further promote solidarity and support consensus-making to reach Agenda 2030, young leaders, representing current and future generations, play a key role in chairing the session and concluding the workshop with collective call-to-actions on creating eco-friendly AI policy system from youths around the world.