The paper proposes EPA-CarbonNet, a six‑layer model that fuses carbon market price series with policy text via cross‑attention and calibrated intervals, aiming to provide explainable, policy‑aware predictions for carbon credit prices. It evaluates the approach on eleven years of daily S&P carbon index data, finding that a simple random walk outperforms the model on five‑day RMSE, while the model achieves the best directional accuracy at 58.6%. The study identifies ten recurring gaps in current research and releases all code, data, and results publicly.
By Summaiya Unnisa Begum, Mohammed Nadeem Ullah, Mohammed Abdul Ghani Khan
Carbon markets put a price on emissions, yet that price remains hard to forecast. Work in this area clusters on the EU and Chinese schemes, compresses regulatory text into a sentiment score, and repor...
As the capabilities and ubiquity of Large Language Models (LLMs) grow, so does their environmental footprint. Despite calls for responsible AI, the machine learning community lacks standardised practi...
The paper highlights that as Large Language Models grow in capability and prevalence, their environmental footprint is increasing, yet the machine learning community lacks standardized carbon accounting practices. An automated review of 5,285 NeurIPS 2025 papers shows almost no reporting of environmental impact. To address this, the authors propose standardized sustainability metrics for training efficiency, heuristics for estimating inference carbon costs, a software tool called carbonbenchmark for tracking emissions, and the SMAJ framework to encourage prioritizing computational efficiency and environmental accountability over marginal accuracy gains.
By Lachlan McGinness, Dan Pagendam, Robert Offner
arXiv:2610.02225v1 Announce Type: new
Abstract: While corporate sustainability mandates are expanding, the systemic reliance on self-reported emissions data exposes financial markets to pervasive gre...
By Sourav Bose, Taoufik Bouraoui
arXiv:2606. 10660v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI inference services -- API subscriptions, enterprise chat tools, and SaaS products with embedded AI features -- fall unambiguously within Scope 3 Category 1 under the Corporate Sustainability Reporting Directive (CSRD), which requires disclosure for fiscal years starting January 2024.
By Guillermo Llopis (SOMA AI, Barcelona)
arXiv:2606. 14707v1 Announce Type: cross Abstract: AI training and deployment consume substantial electricity, but carbon outcomes remain weakly integrated into routine model development decisions.
By Yuxin Chen (University of Helsinki, Finland), Hao Gao (Independent Researcher), Chujie Zou (University of Helsinki, Finland)
arXiv:2608. 14359v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: The sustainability constraints of FLaaS consumers pose significant challenges to maintaining carbon-feasible federated training in FLaaS environments.
By Keya Patel, Sajib Mistry, Sheik Fattah, Deepak Kanneganti, Aneesh Krishna, Mufti Mahmud, Monowar Bhuyan
arXiv:2609.00847v1 Announce Type: cross
Abstract: As machine learning and artificial intelligence find their way into nearly every aspect of climate, weather, and Earth system modeling, it is worth p...
By Filippo Dainelli, Amirpasha Mozaffari, Marina Casta\~no, Aina Gaya i \`Avila, Llu\'is Palma Garcia, Alessio Melli, Oscar Dimdore Miles, Amanda Duarte
arXiv:2602. 19718v2 Announce Type: replace-cross Abstract: The rapid adoption of Generative AI (GenAI) in the software development life cycle (SDLC) increases computational demand, which can raise the carbon footprint of development activities.
By Mateen A. Abbasi, Tommi J. Mikkonen, Petri J. Ihantola, Muhammad Waseem, Pekka Abrahamsson, Niko K. M\"akitalo
arXiv:2608. 09998v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: Artificial Intelligence (AI) and Machine Learning (ML) have become powerful tools for supporting and automating complex human tasks.
By Samar Garrab, Sarra Boughriou, Manel BenSassi
arXiv:2606. 06986v1 Announce Type: new Abstract: While green finance has become a key instrument for low-carbon city transitions, its actual decarbonization effects and transmission mechanisms remain unclear.
By Xueyang Li, Jinlei Ma