16th session of the Team of Specialists on Innovation and Competitiveness Policies

The substantive segment of ToS-ICP will be an international policy dialogue on “Unleashing the power of innovation for climate action: AI for net zero and climate resilient infrastructure”, which will provide a platform for international knowledge-sharing and policy-learning in this area. 5. ECE member States designated “Climate action and resilient infrastructure for a sustainable future” as the theme of the high-level segment of the seventy-first session of the Commission (9 and 10 April 2025).1 The Executive Committee has invited ECE subsidiary bodies and the secretariat to contribute to the preparation of the session of the Commission. The substantive segment of ToS-ICP responds to this request. Moreover, at the request of CICPPP, ToS-ICP continues the discussion and policy deliberations on those issues initiated at the policy dialogue of the Committee seventeenth session in June 2024. At this session member States started their dialogue on Artificial Intelligence (AI) for climate action, exploring the possible use of AI for the energy transition and addressing some of the challenges that may arise. 2