MultiCOP: AI, Biodiversity Monitoring and Indigenous Knowledge

What role can AI play in biodiversity monitoring? This panel introduces two projects in Brazil for discussion. The first project, led by Professor Marlon Maynart at SENAC SP / Grupo SIGMA, presents an interactive study on how generative AI can transform vast regulatory datasets from Brazilian agencies such as CETESB and INEA into intelligible visual information for climate response and citizen participation. The second project introduces a recent pilot study developed by researchers at UCL in partnership with UEMS and Indigenous communities in Brazil, which explores how traditional ecological knowledge could inform the training and classification process of the AI models used to monitor and classify biodiversity data.

The discussion will explore how these projects contribute to global debates on decolonising data, environmental literacy, and Indigenous participation in digital science, considering the challenges and opportunities of AI in fostering equitable climate futures.

This event is part of the MULTICOP hybrid global summit an official COP30 Mutirão event taking place at UCL in London, at UEMS in Dourados, and online as part of COP30's Maloca VR conference hall from Belém. To learn more about the other events in the MULTICOP summit, click here.