09: Funding & Framing Asia’s Climate Futures

Across this series, we’ve traced the many emergent tensions between AI as both a potential  solution and barrier to addressing the world’s most urgent climate and environmental dilemmas. In this final episode, Hanyuan ‘Karen’ Wang and Luis Felipe R. Murrillo discuss the complex arena of climate finance - highlighting these key tensions and potential pathways forward. Hanyuan discusses the need for tools for businesses to navigate the complex climate policy landscape, and the role of private-sector involvement. Luis highlights the difficulties of collecting quality climate data, the importance of data stewardship in bridging the gaps between experts and community needs, and the potential of ‘commoning’ as a way to envision alternate, sustainable frameworks and funding models. 

Speakers

Hanyuan ‘Karen’ Wang

CEO and Founder, Climind

Climind is a platform that delivers actionable climate data infrastructure through AI technologies to facilitate mitigation and adaptation solutions. Hanyuan (Karen) Wang is the first Chinese female to be selected as a Young Leader for the SDGs recognized by the United Nations. Additionally, she serves on the board of NGOs globally, including being the youngest Board of Directors for the Foundation for the Museum of the United Nations - UN Live. She is also on the Advisory Board Members of AI Hong Kong. Karen was a research assistant at Imperial College London's Centre for Climate Finance and Investment (CCFI), where her work centers on voluntary carbon markets, climate risks, and nature-based solutions with a particular focus on the Asian Market . She was named to Forbes' 30 Under 30. She went to Hong Kong Baptist University, Imperial College London, and is a Schwarzman Scholar from Tsinghua University.

Luis Felipe (LF) R. Murillo

Assistant Professor of Anthropology at University of Notre Dame

Luis Felipe R. Murillo’s work is primarily dedicated to the study of the intersections between computing and politics from an anthropological perspective. Based on long-term, collaborative ethnographic research, his research explores questions of commoning and anti-commoning in science and technology. Across several projects spanning hacker networks in the Pacific Rim to open technology development at CERN, LF's work investigates how underground computing collectives design and implement digital technologies in response to pressing social, political, and environmental issues. He is the author of Common Circuits: Hacking Alternative Political Futures recently published by Stanford University Press.

You can read the transcript for this episode ⁠here.

Show Notes

Sir Jim Skea

Oslo Energy Forum

Japan 2011 Disaster

New Expert Eyes Over Fukushima: Open Source Responses to the 3/11 Disaster in Japan 

Community Office Navigating the New Arctic (NNA)

Camera Traps in Code Green Call of the W(AI)ld

Singapore Carbon Tax

Saudi Green Initiative

HKU Jockey Club Enterprise Sustainability Global Research Institute

ICLR 2025

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