Apply now for the Climate Change AI Virtual Summer School 2026 (Fee waivers available)

Ednah Carrick June 12, 2026

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Apply now for the Climate Change AI Virtual Summer School 2026 (Fee waivers available)

Climate Change AI (CCAI) is excited to announce that registrations are open for the Climate Change AI 2026 Summer School!

Join to learn about different applications of artificial intelligence (AI) for climate action from expert researchers and practitioners, while developing important skills and expertise to make an impact in this space.

The program is designed for a global audience from across sectors and career stages, including researchers, practitioners, decision-makers, and students across academia, industry, entrepreneurship, civil society, and the public sector.

Overview

Climate Change AI is excited to host the fourth Climate Change AI Virtual Summer School in 2026! This year’s program will take place from July 19–August 22, 2026.

The Climate Change AI Virtual Summer School provides participants with the opportunity to learn about different applications of artificial intelligence (AI) for climate action from expert researchers and practitioners, and to develop important skills and expertise to make an impact in this space. Through lectures and hands-on tutorials, participants will gain essential grounding in AI, climate, and their intersection; engage with important frameworks for doing responsible, ethical, and impactful work in this space; gain exposure to a diverse range of AI-for-climate applications; and gain hands-on practice in employing AI techniques for climate-relevant problems.

The program is designed for a global audience from across sectors and career stages, including researchers, practitioners, decision-makers, and students across academia, industry, entrepreneurship, civil society, and the public sector. The program content is particularly geared towards participants who have some prior engagement with either AI or climate-relevant areas and want to learn more about their intersection.

If you are interested in learning about ways to responsibly and impactfully leverage AI to tackle major climate problems, Climate Change AI encourages you to check out the program!

Register

Registration for the Climate Change AI 2026 Summer School is now open!

Standard Registration: You can register for the program by filling out the following form: https://forms.gle/uT31HMKBjRE9thot7

After filling out the form, you will receive an email with payment instructions. After your payment is successfully processed, you will be onboarded to the CCAI Community Platform, which will be used for all program-related communications and to share program materials.
Registration fees are $30 (USD) for participants residing in high-income economies and $10 (USD) for participants residing outside high-income economies. Please see the FAQ for more details. If you would like to request a waiver for the registration fee, please do not fill out the standard registration form; instead, please fill out the fee waiver registration form below.

Fee Waiver Registration: CCAI is committed to ensuring program fees are not a barrier to participation for any individual. To that end, CCAI is also offering a limited number of registration fee waivers for the program. To apply for a fee waiver, please fill out the fee waiver registration form: https://forms.gle/PDStfmJPR9655iBv9.

If you submit a fee waiver request, you do not need to separately complete the standard registration form.

Program Structure

Throughout the live program in July and August, participants will engage in various “content modules” – each consisting of pre-readings, a lecture, and often a hands-on coding tutorial – that aim to equip participants with an overview of a given area and provide hands-on practice with a particular application and/or tool. Content modules come in two forms:

Foundation modules provide important technical and socio-technical underpinnings for doing responsible, impactful, and scientifically-grounded AI-for-climate work. Modules include introductions to AI and climate change; responsible, ethical, and sustainable AI; and considerations for shaping AI-for-climate projects in practice. Foundation modules are required for all participants who wish to receive a certificate of participation.
Sectoral modules contextualize where both basic and advanced AI methods play a role in different climate-relevant sectors, including opportunities, limitations, and important considerations. These modules are meant to provide participants with broad overviews alongside concrete examples of AI-for-climate work within a given sector. Participants are required to complete at least 4 sectoral modules in order to receive a certificate of participation.

Given the global range of participant time zones, different lectures will be scheduled at different times of day to ensure at least some proportion of live content is accessible in each time zone. Lectures will also be recorded for asynchronous viewing. Tutorials (presented in the form of interactive Python coding notebooks) will be completed by participants in a self-paced manner during the program.

All program participants will be onboarded to the Climate Change AI Community Platform, an online forum where they can engage in discussions with other program participants, participate in Q&A on lectures and tutorials, and engage in discussions on climate change and AI projects and topics with the broader Climate Change AI community.

In addition, self-study materials will be sent before the Summer School to help participants without prior background in AI or coding acquire relevant background necessary for completion of the hands-on coding tutorials.