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Artificial IntelligenceComparative PoliticsEnvironmental PoliticsSustainable Development
April - August 2026

Yi hyun Kang

Katja Velmans

Governing AI and the Environment

This project addresses the urgent challenge of integrating global AI governance with environmental sustainability goals. As AI technologies rapidly expand, their environmental footprint raises concern. Yet, current global governance systems for AI and the environment remain fragmented. This project explores viable pathways for institutional interplay between AI governance frameworks and international environmental regimes.

Biography

Yi hyun Kang is a postdoctoral researcher at Lund University, Sweden. She is a political scientist whose research focuses on the role of civil society and technology in environmental politics. She worked as a postdoctoral researcher at UCLouvain Saint-Louis Bruxelles in Belgium and earned her PhD from the Technical University of Munich.


Publications

Kang, Y. H. Promise or Peril: How AI Is Discussed in International Environmental Negotiations

Environments, edited by J. Gellers and H. Saetra. Oxford Intersections: AI in Society. Oxford: Oxford University Press, 2025

Kang, Y. H., and A. Orsini Flexible Networks, Asserting Agency: Youth Participation in UNFCCC Processes

Biermann, F., Thomas Hickmann, Y. H. Kang, C.-A. Sénit, and Y. Sun, eds Essential Concepts for Implementing the Sustainable Development Goals: An A–Z Guide

Routledge, 2025