Research project on climate finance gets awarded the HSG Impact Award and gets recognized as one of 10 outstanding global AI solutions by the UNESCO

We congratulate SusTec’s Malte Toetzke, Florian Egli (Energy Policy Group, ETH) and Anna Stünzi (Institute of Political Sciences, HSG) on the awards.

Each year, the Download University of St.Gallen (HSG) honors three outstanding research projects with the HSG Impact Award. This year, the research project "Consistent and replicable estimation of bilateral climate finance" was one of the winners. Read more about it Download here.

At the same time, the outcome of the project has been selected by the Download UNESCO’s International Research Centre on AI (IRCAI) as one of the Top 10 outstanding projects in the Global Top-100 ranking of AI solutions to advance UN Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs) and was presented at the United Nations STI Forum in New York. You can find all projects Download here.

In the project, the team consisting of SusTec’s Malte ToetzkeDr. Florian Egli (Energy Policy Group, ETH) and Download Dr. Anna Stünzi (Institute of Political Sciences, HSG) developed a language model to identify climate finance from 2.8 million development assistance projects in a consistent and replicable way. The study was published in Download Nature Climate Change and triggered responses from the United Nations, the Financial Times, and the World Bank.

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