Artificial Intelligence and Environmental Social Governance: An Exploratory Landscape of AI Toolkit

Abstract

The race to artificial intelligence (AI) and the opportunities it offers also finds use in the field of sustainable business action. This paper presents an initial mapping of AI tools supporting ESG pillars. Through the case study method, 32 companies and tools supporting environmental social governance (ESG) management were investigated, highlighting which of the different AI systems they use and enabling the design of the new AI-ESG ecosystem. The study, in addition to its usefulness in rearranging the current AI-ESG landscape, offers valuable support to companies committed to ESG goals and to institutional decision-makers engaged in the contemporary ESG agenda.

Keywords: ESG, AI, ESG toolkit, ESG ecosystem, AI landscape

JEL Classification: M10, M20,