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For Google's sustainability reporting, AI is a 'game changer'

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Published: 2025-02-26 Accessed: 2026-05-07
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Summary

An interview with Google's sustainability reporting lead on using AI tools, including Gemini and NotebookLM, to draft, verify, and make the 2024 sustainability report interactive.

Key quotes

The 2024 edition is the first to be produced and published using AI tools.
The efficiency that AI tools can bring to these tasks, said Elder, is a “game changer.”
We’ve created a peer benchmarking notebook where we’ve put all of our peer reports into one notebook

The article details Google’s integration of generative AI into its corporate sustainability reporting process. It covers the use of custom ‘Gems’ for style adherence and claim verification, as well as the deployment of NotebookLM to allow users to query the report via a chatbot.