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Author Information
Amy Luers and Jennifer Garard are
with Future Earth and with the Cen-
ter for Sustainability in the Digital
Age, Montreal, Quebec, Canada.
Asun Lera St. Clair is with DNV
GL, Norway; Barcelona SuperCom-
puting Center, Spain, and the Cli-
mate and Transformation Mission
Board Horizon Europe.
Owen Gaffney is with the Stock-
holm Resilience Center, Sweden,
and the Potsdam Institute for Cli-
mate Impact Research, Germany.
Tom Hassenboehler is with ECMAP, Washington, DC, and with The
Coefficient Group.
Lyse Langlois is with the Interna-
tional Observatory on the Societal
Impacts of Artificial Intelligence and
Digital Technologies (OBVIA), Univer-
sité de Laval, Quebec, Canada.
Mathilde Mougeot is with the École
Nationale Supérieure d'Informatique
pour l'Industrie et l'Entreprise
(ENSIIE), and with the Center Nation-
al de la Recherche Scientifique
(CNRS), Paris, France.
Alexandra Luccioni is with Mila,
and with the Université de Montréal,
Montreal, Quebec, Canada.

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