Version 1.9.2026

How we use AI on this site

In short. Some of the text on this site is written by an AI system, not by a person. Descriptions and summaries of the documents in our library are machine-generated and are not checked by anyone before they appear. They are clearly labelled as AI-generated wherever they appear. They are a way of finding documents, not a substitute for reading them. Before you rely on anything in the Climate Insights Directory, please check it against the original source, which we always link to.

What is written by AI, and what is not

This site brings together climate documents published by other organisations and helps you find your way around them. Different parts of the site come from different places. Given the volume and depth of our corpus of information, we do not currently review AI-generated descriptions or summaries individually before publishing them.

The source documents themselves

Who wrote it: The organisations that published them

What that means for you: We do not rewrite or edit them. We link to the original and reproduce it only where the licence allows. Nothing here is AI-generated.

Descriptions, tags and topic groupings

Who wrote it: An AI system

What that means for you: Machine-written from the source document so that it can be found. Not checked by a person. Labelled as AI-generated.

Summaries and overview pages

Who wrote it: An AI system

What that means for you: Machine-written summarization from one or more source documents. Not checked by a person. Labelled as AI-generated. This is the material most worth treating with care.

Search results and rankings

Who wrote it: Software, not a writer

What that means for you: Ordering and matching only. No text is written for you.

"Updates" posts and Concept Overviews

Who wrote it: Our staff

What that means for you: Written by people but may be based on research using an AI system.

How we label it

Every piece of AI-generated text on this site carries a label where you first encounter it on the page itself, not hidden in a footer or a linked notice. Labels use plain words and are paired with icons compliant with the EU disclosure recommendation.

What you will see: AI-generated summary / description

What it means: This page was produced by an AI system from the source documents listed on it and has not been reviewed by a person. Please check the original sources before relying on it.

What you will see: AI-assisted, reviewed by [role]

What it means: Produced with an AI system and then checked against the sources by a named person. You will only see this label where that check has actually happened.

Marking that machines can read

As well as the labels you can see, AI-generated text (greater than 200 tokens) on this site carries markings that software can detect or signed provenance information attached to the content, and a watermark applied when the text is generated. These let other systems recognise our output as machine-generated even where it has been copied away from this site.

The system we use

We think you should be able to see what is generating the text you are reading. The whole stack is open source, and we host it ourselves inside the European Economic Area.

Part of the system

Model

Gemma-4-31B-it as provided by Google / Red Hat AI / NVIDIA.

Who runs it

DiscourseLab built, hosts, and maintains the data collection platform for us. The AI processing happens on Verda's infrastructure, but no documents, text, or logs are stored there. No third-party AI provider keeps or has access to the data we process.

Where it runs

All processing takes place inside the EEA.

What this system gets wrong

AI systems of this kind do not read, check or verify. They produce text that resembles a correct answer, which is not the same thing as a correct answer. These are the specific failures we know about, and the ones we would want you to watch for.

• Misattribution. The most consequential failure, and the one we treat most seriously. A summary may attribute a position, a figure or a commitment to an organisation that did not make it or blend two organisations' documents together. If a claim matters to you, confirm it in the original document before citing it to us or to anyone else.
• Assertions the source does not support. A summary may state something more firmly than the document does or include a detail the document does not contain. Figures, dates and targets are worth checking every time.
• What the summary leaves out. A summary is a compression. Caveats, methodology, dissent and uncertainty are exactly what tends to be lost, and in climate documents that is often where the substance is.
• Uneven coverage. Our collection is weighted towards English-language sources and research based approaches to climate topics. Coverage of other languages, regions and perspectives is less complete. This shapes not only what the system says but what it is able to find at all. Our selection criteria are published at https://climateinsightsdirectory.org/about-us 
• It is not advice. Nothing generated here is legal, financial, scientific or policy advice, and it is not a substitute for reading the underlying documents or taking professional advice.

Whose claims these are

Descriptions and summaries on this site characterise documents published by other people. Where a summary restates an emissions figure, a reduction target, an offset assessment or a sustainability rating, that claim belongs to the author of the source document. It is not our assessment and repeating it is not an endorsement of it.

If you reuse our content

• Keep the marking. Where you republish text taken from this site, keep the indication that it was AI-generated. Our API marks generated fields explicitly so you can do this automatically, and our API terms require it.
• You are responsible for what you publish. If you publish our AI-generated text on your own site, you have your own obligations under the EU AI Act. Our marking does not discharge them, and it does not make your publication compliant.

Tell us when we get it wrong

If a description or summary misrepresents a document, or attributes it to the wrong organisation, please tell us at info@climateinsightsdirectory.org We treat attribution errors as the highest priority and correct them ahead of anything else. If you are the author or publisher of a document in our library and want it corrected, removed or de-indexed, write to the same address and tell us which document needs action.

Where this sits in law

Article 50 of the EU Artificial Intelligence Act, Regulation (EU) 2024/1689, requires that AI-generated text published to inform the public on matters of public interest is disclosed as such, and that AI-generated content is marked in a machine-readable form. These rules have applied 

Questions about this page, or about our use of AI generally, can go to info@climateinsightsdirectory.org

This page is reviewed at least every month and whenever the system, the model or the applicable rules change.