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In Smarter Than the Storm, Amitabh Kant and Siddharth Sinha explore this interplay with compelling clarity. The book deep-dives into AI's promise, but, at the same time, also its dilemma. On the one hand, AI can accelerate climate action by advancing mitigation, adaptation and governance. On the other, it carries a growing environmental footprint. The book expounds how climate risks cascade across sectors, societies and economies, creating vicious cycles, and demonstrates, through global case studies, how AI can be deployed to tackle climate change. With an eye on the future, it also makes the case for climate- and community-positive data centres, open and sovereign AI models that democratize innovation, and digital public infrastructure that expands access to climate data, together forming a road map whose principles apply across sectors, geographies and challenges.

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Amitabh Kant is widely regarded as a key architect of India's modern economic and brand identity. A distinguished civil servant who retired from the Indian Administrative Service (IAS), he was the longest tenured CEO of the National Institution for Transforming India (NITI Aayog), the government's apex policy-planning agency, driving national AI and climate initiatives. As India's G20 Sherpa, he played a pivotal role in the landmark New Delhi Leaders' Declaration. A Chevening scholar with a master's from JNU, he is a prolific author. Siddharth Sinha specializes in the interplay of AI and climate. He has previously worked at NITI Aayog, the G20 Secretariat and Google, where he helped accelerate AI-enabled climate interventions and co-conceptualized a global air quality management solution. An electrical engineer from Vellore Institute of Technology with an MPA from the London School of Economics, he was a Climate Fellow at Yale and a Chevening Fellow at Oxford. He currently works at Greenko.

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