Get AI-ready for COP30: Your essential toolkit to survive next week

If you’re heading to COP30 — or racing to finish COP-related work before it kicks off — you’re probably already feeling the chaos. Two weeks of nonstop meetings, panels, announcements, press briefings, dealmaking, and, yes… even more meetings. Oof.

But don’t panic — we’ve got you.

We’ve rounded up the smartest AI tools to help you stay sane through the COP whirlwind — managing the meetings, keeping up with the news, and staying sharp when it counts. This is not a paid sponsorship; these are tools that we use and genuinely make our lives easier.

Save your brainpower for what really matters: the conversations and the connections.

Our pick: Granola

COP meetings are fast-paced and dense with acronyms, pledges, and policy jargon. Granola is a discreet note-taking tool that records and summarises discussions in the background — no intrusive bots or awkward pop-ups.

It balances your handwritten notes with AI-generated summaries and keeps a transcription, so you can stay present while capturing everything. Bonus is it can tell you what you missed, live during the meeting. It is perfect for following up on commitments made during side events or bilateral discussions.

Alternatives: Fireflies, Otter, tl;dv

Our pick: Vimcal

When you’re managing overlapping schedules between Belem, Brussels, and Beijing, Vimcal keeps it all manageable. It’s fast, minimalist, and smart about time-zone chaos — ideal for delegates or journalists coordinating meetings across continents.

Its quick shortcuts make rescheduling frictionless, and its visual clarity helps when every minute of your day is booked.

Alternatives: Reclaim.ai, Calendly

Our pick: Perplexity

At COP, you’ll hear acronyms like SSP, NDCs, and REDD+ thrown around casually. Perplexity acts as your quick-reference researcher, summarising any concept, initiative, or report with cited sources.

It’s faster than scrolling through Google and much more reliable than overhearing someone else’s explanation. Use it to fact-check, brief yourself before meetings, or keep up with breaking policy developments in real time.

Alternatives: ChatGPT, Claude, Gemini

Our pick: Feedly

With hundreds of press releases and reports dropping daily, Feedly keeps you ahead of the noise. You can follow custom topics like “climate finance,” “adaptation,” or “COP30 negotiations” and track global outlets all in one dashboard.

It’s ideal for journalists, researchers, and communication teams who need a live, curated newsfeed without scrolling endlessly through social media.

Alternatives: Ground News, Google News

Our pick: Fyxer AI

Tracking COP30 developments means sifting through dozens of emails, briefings, and meeting notes daily. Fyxer AI acts as a smart assistant, sorting your inbox, summarising key updates, and drafting follow-ups—so you can stay on top of negotiations, climate finance updates, and adaptation reports without getting buried in messages.

It’s ideal for climate journalists, researchers, and policy teams who need actionable insights from their inbox in real time.

Alternatives: Superhuman, SaneBox

Our pick: Krisp.ai

COP30 will be loud — overlapping briefings, hallway chatter, translation booths buzzing. Krisp.ai cuts through it all, using AI to remove noise, echo, and background hum in real time. Whether you’re interviewing a delegate in a crowded media zone or joining a virtual call from a café, Krisp makes you sound like you’re in a quiet studio.

Clearer sound means cleaner transcripts — and far less time decoding what anyone actually said.

Alternatives: NVIDIA Broadcast

Our pick: Wispr Flow

When multilingual sessions and rapid-fire panels blur together, Wispr Flow keeps every word clear. It transcribes and translates dozens of languages with near-human accuracy — even from imperfect audio.

Record a side event in Portuguese, get an English transcript within minutes, and keep it searchable for quotes or summaries. Wispr Flow thrives in noisy, real-world COP settings where clarity and inclusivity matter most.

Alternatives: Notta.ai, Sonix, Deepgram

Bonus from our team:

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As COP30 heats up, the alphabet soup of disclosure frameworks — IFRS S2, EU Taxonomy, CSRD — is turning compliance into a full-time translation job. Negotiators and investors alike need assessments that are fast, traceable, and defensible. 

Brief.green automates that process, transforming sprawling sustainability documents into structured analyses with full source transparency. Built by analysts, tuned for regulation, it helps cut through the noise — so decisions rest on facts, not formatting.

We hope our picks help cut through the noise. Tried any other AI tools that are working for you?

Let us know — and happy prepping for COP30!

See you next Wednesday!

Natasha and the ClimateAligned team

P.S. Big shoutout to Adam and Richard for their thoughtful feedback — we see you and appreciate you! 🙌 And if you’re not Adam or Richard, don’t be shy — hit reply and tell us what you think. We read (and love) every message. 😄

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