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Whitepapers and research from CEART’s industry conversations.
CLIMATE WEEK NYC 2025
Research from collaborative Climate Week workshops, bringing industry perspectives together in a fast-changing environment. Read the context behind each document and explore the earlier work that helped shape CEART’s focus.
WHITEPAPER · AI & TECHNOLOGY
AI and Climate: Navigating the Double-Edged Sword
A synthesis of Climate Week discussion on AI’s climate applications, the infrastructure needed to support them, and the challenge of measuring net impact.
Compiled after a collaborative workshop hosted by CEART Corp with Fulton Ring at Climate Week NYC 2025, this whitepaper brings together a wide range of industry stakeholder perspectives on the opportunities and trade-offs of AI in a fast-changing climate and energy landscape.
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Prepared following the September 25, 2025 “What’s Working for AI and Climate” session led by CEART and Fulton Ring, this paper examines grid optimization, environmental monitoring, climate-risk analysis, and carbon accounting alongside AI’s electricity and water demands.
Its central questions concern trustworthy outputs, transparency, task-specific model choices, and the relationship between technical efficiency and total resource use.
EVENT RESEARCH MEMO · FINANCE & TECHNOLOGY
The 2025 Tech Stack for Energy Finance
Practitioner perspectives on the tools used in energy finance, the persistence of Excel, and the evidence needed to trust AI-assisted work.
Compiled after a collaborative workshop hosted by CEART Corp with Fulton Ring and East Energy at Climate Week NYC 2025, this research memo captures how industry stakeholders are adapting their workflows as financial tools, data, and AI capabilities evolve.
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This event summary draws on a Climate Week NYC discussion co-hosted by CEART, Fulton Ring, and East Energy. It examines technology adoption in project evaluation, contract review, research, financial modeling, and data preparation.
The recurring themes are data transparency, traceability, human verification, and the difficulty of turning fragmented information into dependable analysis. The source identifies itself as an event memo rather than a formal whitepaper.
CLIMATE WEEK NYC 2023 · THE EARLY DISCUSSION
HISTORICAL WHITEPAPER · C|CHANGE WORKING GROUP
Breaking the Bottlenecks to Scaling Renewable Energy Projects
At Climate Week NYC 2023, CEART founder Rich Deming convened a panel to examine the bottlenecks holding back clean-energy deployment. The C|CHANGE working group approached the problem from complementary perspectives: market structure and environmental finance alongside Deming’s focus on due diligence and transactional friction.
Prepared in collaboration with Fox Rothschild LLP, the paper records an early stage of a continuing industry conversation. Its value today is historical: it shows how concerns about capital deployment, project risk, and the path to closing were already connected.
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The paper examines seven connected barriers: grid modernization, interconnection, permitting, ESG assessment, project siting, due diligence, and environmental-finance markets.
Its diligence discussion traces how risk discovered after term-sheet negotiation can trigger rework, renewed negotiation, and delays that consume the remaining life of permits and contracts. It argues for earlier identification of material risks and a better shared understanding between project sponsors and financiers.