Est. 2025 theclimateclerk.com Vol. I  ·  Practical AI for Climate

The Climate Clerk

Practical AI tools for sustainability professionals

Featured essay

The expert doesn't disappear.
The expert gets leverage.

These tools don't replace sustainability expertise — they require it. The judgment call — that's still yours. What changes is the scale at which you can apply it. One practitioner, dozens of suppliers assessed, benchmarked, and prioritised. That's the bet.

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Criteria assessment indicators for Transition Plans
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Tools in development
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Lines of code needed to use them
Tools & Projects
v0.1 — 2025
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Disclosure Quality
Transition Plan Benchmarker
Upload any company's climate transition plan and assess it against a 26-criteria rubric grounded in CDP Technical Note guidance. Each criterion scores PASS, PARTIAL, or MISSING — with evidence quotes and improvement recommendations.
CDP CSRD SBTi Peer benchmarking
In development
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Physical Risk
Site Climate Risk Assessor
Enter GPS coordinates for your facilities and retrieve a physical climate risk profile based on 30 years of ERA5 reanalysis data — heat stress days, extreme precipitation frequency, drought risk, and freeze exposure. Scored and compared across sites.
TCFD ERA5 SSP scenarios CSRD ESRS E1
In development
The Approach
"The rubric is the expertise. The AI is the execution."

Human judgment at machine scale

Every tool on this site is designed by sustainability professionals for sustianability professionals

At the time of the AI revolution, there is a risk on over reliance in automation. Years of expertise in change management cannot be easily replaced. AI can help us to focus more on high value tasks and projects.

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Expert designs the tools

Performance management workflows, regulatory compliance, benchmarks and best-practices — built from deep expertise and professional judgment, not prompt engineering.

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AI applies it at scale

Documents are read, evidence is located, scores are assigned consistently across dozens of reports in minutes, not weeks.

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Expert reviews and overrides

The practitioner validates outputs, catches edge cases, and interprets findings in context. The AI flags; the human decides.

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Insight goes to work

Results feed into supplier conversations, board presentations, and disclosure narratives — with a clear audit trail of how conclusions were reached.

About

Built by a practitioner,
for practitioners.

The Climate Clerk is a side project from a sustainability professional with +15 years of experience. Every tool here started as a real workflow problem — a supplier assessment that took too long, a benchmarking exercise that required weeks of analyst time, a risk screening that never got done because there weren't enough hours.

These aren't proofs of concept. They're working tools, shared openly because the field advances faster when practitioners share what's actually working — not just what's theoretically possible.

The Climate Clerk
A committed agent of change
📍 Denmark
🎯 CSRD · CDP · SBTi · TCFD
🔧 Scope 3 · Supplier engagement · Physical risk . And much more!
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