Geospatial AI is transforming climate action, offering powerful tools for resilience, resource management, and disaster preparedness. But how do we ensure its deployment is equitable, ethical, and effective in low and middle-income contexts?

DFL’s Senior Research Associate, Dona Mathew was in Taipei for RightsCon 2025. She moderated the panel, ‘Navigating GeoAI for Climate Action: Potential and Pitfalls’ featuring

• Ruth Schmidt of FAIR Forward, GIZ
• Katya Abazajian of Local Data Futures Initiative
• Pyrou C. of Knowledge for Development (K4D) Foundation

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Together, the speakers explored

👉 Actionable Strategies: How geospatial data and AI can be applied to climate action initiatives in LMICs

👉 Risk Mitigation: Understand the ethical & technical risks & challenges associated with deploying AI in these regions and ways to navigate them.

👉 Strategic Collaboration: Learn about the importance of interdisciplinary cross-sector collaboration & participatory approaches for safe & equitable GeoAI.

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