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Together with our partners, we’re accelerating progress toward a more resilient future by applying AI in surprising ways that make an impact—in the clouds formed behind airplanes, the timing of a traffic light at a busy city intersection, and providing first-responders with near real-time insights on wildfires.

Tapestry

Enabling electricity grid operator PJM to operate more sustainably

PJM interconnection, the largest grid operator in North America, and Tapestry, an Alphabet-incubated moonshot powered by Google Research, Google Cloud, and Google DeepMind, are helping PJM connect energy sources to its grid much faster to make electricity more reliable and affordable for the 67 million people PJM serves.

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Firesat

Partnering with Earth Fire Alliance to use AI for faster wildfire detection

FireSat is a satellite constellation that uses high-res satellite imagery and AI to provide near real-time insights on wildfires. Developed in partnership with Google Research, Muon Space, Earth Fire Alliance, Moore Foundation, wildfire authorities, and others, FireSat enables faster detection, improved situational awareness for first responders, and ultimately helps reduce the devastating impacts of wildfires.

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Flood forecasting

Using AI to give flood-prone communities time to act

Google Flood Hub displays forecasts based on a breakthrough global hydrological AI model to predict riverine floods up to seven days in advance in over 100 countries. This covers territories where more than 700 million people live globally, helping these communities prepare for and respond to riverine floods.

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Geospatial reasoning

Unlocking insights with generative AI and multiple foundation models for climate resilience and more

Google Research initiative Geospatial Reasoning uses Gemini’s 2.5 advanced reasoning capabilities to intelligently plan and orchestrate analytics across diverse geospatial data sources—maps, socioeconomic data, satellite imagery, and 3P proprietary datasets—delivering insightful results.

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Project green light

Improving traffic flow and making city streets more efficient

Using AI, Green Light optimizes traffic lights to reduce vehicle stops, helping alleviate congestion and decrease emissions while improving urban mobility for people in cities around the globe.

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Project contrails

Reducing planet-warming contrails using AI

Contrails—the thin, white lines seen behind airplanes—account for roughly 35% of aviation’s global warming impact.1 Google Research teamed up with American Airlines, EUROCONTROL, and academic experts to bring together huge amounts of data—and used AI to develop a cost-effective and scalable way to help to mitigate aviation’s climate impact.

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WeatherNext

Producing state-of-the-art forecasts up to 10 days in advance

Using AI models from Google DeepMind and Google Research, WeatherNext can produce affordable, fast, and accurate weather predictions up to 10 days in advance, and a range of likely future weather scenarios up to 15 days in advance.

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Who we partner with

We believe that everyone—from policymakers, industry leaders, and civil society—must work together for climate action. Our cross-sectoral collaborations are enabling our partners to advance bold sustainability goals.

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Governments and intergovernmental organizations

We empower national, regional, and city governments, as well as intergovernmental organizations, with data and tools.

Customers

We’re providing powerful insights to help companies around the world reduce their emissions, increase visibility across their supply chain, and predict climate risk.

Startups, entrepreneurs, and innovators

We partner with, and invest in startups, entrepreneurs, and innovators with bold ideas and ambitious projects to accelerate progress in climate information and action.

Researchers, academics, and NGOs

We’re helping advance scientific research by providing cutting-edge climate and nature-related data and analytics to researchers from academic institutions and NGOs.

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Data Commons

Explore data about climate, health, food, crops, shelter, emissions, and more.

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Dynamic World

Browse a near realtime land cover dataset for our constantly changing planet.

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Earth Engine

Explore earth science data analysis at a planetary scale.

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Environmental Insights Explorer

See how cities and local governments can analyze emissions data and identify strategies for climate action.

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Flood hub

Flood Hub

Supports cities in addressing extreme heat.

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Global Fibre Impact Explorer

Understand the environmental impact of your fiber sourcing decisions.

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Global Fishing Watch

Learn about mapping global fishing with machine learning.

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Global Forest Watch

Explore data and tools for forest protection.

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Global Surface Water Explorer

Get a global, highly detailed view of water on Earth.

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Google Earth

Explore the far reaches of the world, right in your browser.

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Heat Resilience Tool

Helps cities quantify how to reduce surface temperatures with cooling interventions.

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MethaneSAT

MethaneSAT

Maps, measures, and tracks methane, offering a comprehensive view of global oil and gas methane emissions.

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Project Sunroof

Get your own personalized solar savings estimator, powered by Google Earth.

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Solar API

Solar API

Deploys solar installations faster with solar data, solar insights, and rooftop imagery all in one place.

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Timelapse

See how the Earth has changed over the past 40 years.

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Travel Impact Model

Travel Impact Model

Predicts greenhouse gas emissions for future flights to help travelers plan more sustainably.

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WeatherNext

WeatherNext

Produces state-of-the-art weather forecasts, learning directly from vast amounts of historical weather data to generate predictions often 10 to 15 days in advance.

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Wildlife Insights

Browse through the largest publicly accessible collection of wildlife photos taken from remote cameras in the world.

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1 "The Contribution of Global Aviation to Anthropogenic Climate Forcing for 2000 to 2018," Atmospheric Environment, January 2021. Calculated using Supplementary data to compare the global warming potential (GWP100) of contrails to the total global warming potential of the three primary aviation pollutants (CO2, NOx, and contrails).
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