Amy Luers

Head of Sustainability Science and Innovation

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- Corporate Biodiversity Reporting Can Be Scaled with AI and Earth Observation—But Will Miss the Point Without Guidance from Conservation Scientists
  
  Benjamin L. Miller, Seamus Lombardo, Amy Rosenthal, Tara O'Shea,, Amy Luers, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Lisa Mandle, Taylor H. Ricketts, Stephen Polasky, Daniel G. Brown
  
  Society for Conservation Biology - Conservation Letters | October 2025
  
  Publication DOI
- Maximizing Nature-based Solutions using Artificial Intelligence to align global biodiversity, climate, and water targets
  
  Amy Luers
  
  October 2025
  
  Preprint
- Energy Use of AI Inference: Efficiency Pathways and Test-Time Compute
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Esha Choukse, Allen Kim, Amy Luers, Melanie Nakagawa, Ricardo Bianchini, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication
- Net Zero needs AI – five actions to realize its promise
  
  Amy Luers
  
  Nature | August 2025
  
  Publication
- Earth Alignment Principle for Artificial Intelligence
  
  Amy Luers
  
  March 2025
  
  Publication
- Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions?
  
  Amy Luers, Jonathan Koomey, Eric Masanet, Owen Gaffney, Felix Creutzig, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Eric Horvitz
  
  Nature | April 2024
  
  Publication
- Accounting for the climate benefit of temporary carbon storage in nature
  
  Amy Luers
  
  Nature Communications | September 2023
  
  Publication
- A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action
  
  Amy Luers
  
  Nature Ecology and Evolution | August 2023
  
  Publication
- Digitalization and the Anthropocene
  
  Felix Creutzig, Daron Acemoglu, Xuemei Bai, Paul N. Edwards, Marie Josefine Hintz, Lynn H. Kaack, Siir Kilkis, Stefanie Kunkel, Amy Luers, Nikola Milojevic-Dupont, Dave Rejeski, Jürgen Renn, David Rolnick, Christoph Rosol, Daniela Russ, Thomas Turnbull, Elena Verdolini, Felix Wagner, Charlie Wilson, Aicha Zekar, Marius Zumwald
  
  Annual Review of Environment and Resources | October 2022, Vol 47
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Climate risk assessment needs urgent improvement
  
  Alberto Arribas Herranz, Ross Fairgrieve, Trevor Dhu, Juliet Bell, Ros Cornforth, Geoff Gooley, Chris J. Hilson, Amy Luers, Ted Shepherd, Roger Street, Nick Wood
  
  Nature Communications | August 2022, Vol 13(4326)
  
  Publication Project
- Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable — build interoperable systems
  
  Amy Luers, Leehi Yona, Christopher B. Field, Robert B. Jackson, Katharine J. Mach, Benjamin W. Cashore, Cynthia Elliott, Lauren Gifford, Colleen Honigsberg, Lena Klaassen, H. Damon Matthews, Andi Peng, Christian Stoll, Marian Van Pelt, Ross A. Virginia, Lucas Joppa
  
  Nature | July 2022, Vol 607
  
  Publication
- Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario
  
  H. Damon Matthews, Kirsten Zickfeld, Mitchell Dickau, Alexander J. MacIsaac, Sabine Mathesius, Claude-Michel Nzotungicimpaye, Amy Luers
  
  Communications Earth & Environment | March 2022, Vol 3(65)
  
  Publication Project
- Microsoft’s million-tonne CO2-removal purchase — lessons for net zero
  
  Lucas Joppa, Amy Luers, Elizabeth Willmott, S. Julio Friedmann, Steven P. Hamburg, Rafael Broze
  
  Nature | September 2021, Vol 597: pp. 629-632
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Planetary intelligence for sustainability in the digital age: Five priorities
  
  Amy Luers
  
  One Earth | June 2021, Vol 4(6): pp. 772-775
  
  Publication DOI Project
- The climate policy narrative for a dangerously warming world
  
  Todd Sanford, Peter C. Frumhoff, Amy Luers, Jay Gulledge
  
  Nature Climate Change | February 2014, Vol 4: pp. 164-166
  
  Publication Project
- Assessing the vulnerability of social-environmental systems
  
  Hallie Eakin, Amy Lynd Luers
  
  Annual Review of Environment and Resources | November 2006, Vol 31: pp. 365-394
  
  Publication Project
- A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science
  
  B. L. Turner II, Roger E. Kasperson, Pamela A. Matson, James J. McCarthy, Robert W. Corell, Lindsey Christensen, Noelle Eckley, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Amy Luers, Marybeth L. Martello, Colin Polsky, Alexander Pulsipher, Andrew Schiller
  
  PNAS | June 2003, Vol 100(14): pp. 8074-8079
  
  Publication Project

- Maximizing Nature-based Solutions using Artificial Intelligence to align global biodiversity, climate, and water targets
  
  Amy Luers
  
  October 2025
  
  Preprint
- Corporate Biodiversity Reporting Can Be Scaled with AI and Earth Observation—But Will Miss the Point Without Guidance from Conservation Scientists
  
  Benjamin L. Miller, Seamus Lombardo, Amy Rosenthal, Tara O'Shea,, Amy Luers, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Lisa Mandle, Taylor H. Ricketts, Stephen Polasky, Daniel G. Brown
  
  Society for Conservation Biology - Conservation Letters | October 2025
  
  Publication DOI
- Energy Use of AI Inference: Efficiency Pathways and Test-Time Compute
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Esha Choukse, Allen Kim, Amy Luers, Melanie Nakagawa, Ricardo Bianchini, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication
- Net Zero needs AI – five actions to realize its promise
  
  Amy Luers
  
  Nature | August 2025
  
  Publication
- Earth Alignment Principle for Artificial Intelligence
  
  Amy Luers
  
  March 2025
  
  Publication
- Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions?
  
  Amy Luers, Jonathan Koomey, Eric Masanet, Owen Gaffney, Felix Creutzig, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Eric Horvitz
  
  Nature | April 2024
  
  Publication
- Maximizing Nature-based Solutions using Artificial Intelligence to align global biodiversity, climate, and water targets
  
  Amy Luers
  
  October 2025
  
  Preprint
- Energy Use of AI Inference: Efficiency Pathways and Test-Time Compute
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Esha Choukse, Allen Kim, Amy Luers, Melanie Nakagawa, Ricardo Bianchini, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication
- Net Zero needs AI – five actions to realize its promise
  
  Amy Luers
  
  Nature | August 2025
  
  Publication
- Earth Alignment Principle for Artificial Intelligence
  
  Amy Luers
  
  March 2025
  
  Publication
- Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions?
  
  Amy Luers, Jonathan Koomey, Eric Masanet, Owen Gaffney, Felix Creutzig, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Eric Horvitz
  
  Nature | April 2024
  
  Publication
- Accounting for the climate benefit of temporary carbon storage in nature
  
  Amy Luers
  
  Nature Communications | September 2023
  
  Publication
- A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action
  
  Amy Luers
  
  Nature Ecology and Evolution | August 2023
  
  Publication
- Digitalization and the Anthropocene
  
  Felix Creutzig, Daron Acemoglu, Xuemei Bai, Paul N. Edwards, Marie Josefine Hintz, Lynn H. Kaack, Siir Kilkis, Stefanie Kunkel, Amy Luers, Nikola Milojevic-Dupont, Dave Rejeski, Jürgen Renn, David Rolnick, Christoph Rosol, Daniela Russ, Thomas Turnbull, Elena Verdolini, Felix Wagner, Charlie Wilson, Aicha Zekar, Marius Zumwald
  
  Annual Review of Environment and Resources | October 2022, Vol 47
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Climate risk assessment needs urgent improvement
  
  Alberto Arribas Herranz, Ross Fairgrieve, Trevor Dhu, Juliet Bell, Ros Cornforth, Geoff Gooley, Chris J. Hilson, Amy Luers, Ted Shepherd, Roger Street, Nick Wood
  
  Nature Communications | August 2022, Vol 13(4326)
  
  Publication Project
- Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable — build interoperable systems
  
  Amy Luers, Leehi Yona, Christopher B. Field, Robert B. Jackson, Katharine J. Mach, Benjamin W. Cashore, Cynthia Elliott, Lauren Gifford, Colleen Honigsberg, Lena Klaassen, H. Damon Matthews, Andi Peng, Christian Stoll, Marian Van Pelt, Ross A. Virginia, Lucas Joppa
  
  Nature | July 2022, Vol 607
  
  Publication
- Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario
  
  H. Damon Matthews, Kirsten Zickfeld, Mitchell Dickau, Alexander J. MacIsaac, Sabine Mathesius, Claude-Michel Nzotungicimpaye, Amy Luers
  
  Communications Earth & Environment | March 2022, Vol 3(65)
  
  Publication Project
- Microsoft’s million-tonne CO2-removal purchase — lessons for net zero
  
  Lucas Joppa, Amy Luers, Elizabeth Willmott, S. Julio Friedmann, Steven P. Hamburg, Rafael Broze
  
  Nature | September 2021, Vol 597: pp. 629-632
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Planetary intelligence for sustainability in the digital age: Five priorities
  
  Amy Luers
  
  One Earth | June 2021, Vol 4(6): pp. 772-775
  
  Publication DOI Project
- The climate policy narrative for a dangerously warming world
  
  Todd Sanford, Peter C. Frumhoff, Amy Luers, Jay Gulledge
  
  Nature Climate Change | February 2014, Vol 4: pp. 164-166
  
  Publication Project
- Assessing the vulnerability of social-environmental systems
  
  Hallie Eakin, Amy Lynd Luers
  
  Annual Review of Environment and Resources | November 2006, Vol 31: pp. 365-394
  
  Publication Project
- A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science
  
  B. L. Turner II, Roger E. Kasperson, Pamela A. Matson, James J. McCarthy, Robert W. Corell, Lindsey Christensen, Noelle Eckley, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Amy Luers, Marybeth L. Martello, Colin Polsky, Alexander Pulsipher, Andrew Schiller
  
  PNAS | June 2003, Vol 100(14): pp. 8074-8079
  
  Publication Project
- Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable — build interoperable systems
  
  Amy Luers, Leehi Yona, Christopher B. Field, Robert B. Jackson, Katharine J. Mach, Benjamin W. Cashore, Cynthia Elliott, Lauren Gifford, Colleen Honigsberg, Lena Klaassen, H. Damon Matthews, Andi Peng, Christian Stoll, Marian Van Pelt, Ross A. Virginia, Lucas Joppa
  
  Nature | July 2022, Vol 607
  
  Publication

- Maximizing Nature-based Solutions using Artificial Intelligence to align global biodiversity, climate, and water targets
  
  Amy Luers
  
  October 2025
  
  Preprint
- Energy Use of AI Inference: Efficiency Pathways and Test-Time Compute
  
  Felipe Oviedo, Fiodar Kazhamiaka, Esha Choukse, Allen Kim, Amy Luers, Melanie Nakagawa, Ricardo Bianchini, Juan M. Lavista Ferres
  
  September 2025
  
  Publication
- Corporate Biodiversity Reporting Can Be Scaled with AI and Earth Observation—But Will Miss the Point Without Guidance from Conservation Scientists
  
  Benjamin L. Miller, Seamus Lombardo, Amy Rosenthal, Tara O'Shea,, Amy Luers, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Lisa Mandle, Taylor H. Ricketts, Stephen Polasky, Daniel G. Brown
  
  Society for Conservation Biology - Conservation Letters | October 2025
  
  Publication DOI
- Net Zero needs AI – five actions to realize its promise
  
  Amy Luers
  
  Nature | August 2025
  
  Publication
- Earth Alignment Principle for Artificial Intelligence
  
  Amy Luers
  
  March 2025
  
  Publication
- Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions?
  
  Amy Luers, Jonathan Koomey, Eric Masanet, Owen Gaffney, Felix Creutzig, Juan M. Lavista Ferres, Eric Horvitz
  
  Nature | April 2024
  
  Publication
- Accounting for the climate benefit of temporary carbon storage in nature
  
  Amy Luers
  
  Nature Communications | September 2023
  
  Publication
- A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action
  
  Amy Luers
  
  Nature Ecology and Evolution | August 2023
  
  Publication
- Digitalization and the Anthropocene
  
  Felix Creutzig, Daron Acemoglu, Xuemei Bai, Paul N. Edwards, Marie Josefine Hintz, Lynn H. Kaack, Siir Kilkis, Stefanie Kunkel, Amy Luers, Nikola Milojevic-Dupont, Dave Rejeski, Jürgen Renn, David Rolnick, Christoph Rosol, Daniela Russ, Thomas Turnbull, Elena Verdolini, Felix Wagner, Charlie Wilson, Aicha Zekar, Marius Zumwald
  
  Annual Review of Environment and Resources | October 2022, Vol 47
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Climate risk assessment needs urgent improvement
  
  Alberto Arribas Herranz, Ross Fairgrieve, Trevor Dhu, Juliet Bell, Ros Cornforth, Geoff Gooley, Chris J. Hilson, Amy Luers, Ted Shepherd, Roger Street, Nick Wood
  
  Nature Communications | August 2022, Vol 13(4326)
  
  Publication Project
- Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable — build interoperable systems
  
  Amy Luers, Leehi Yona, Christopher B. Field, Robert B. Jackson, Katharine J. Mach, Benjamin W. Cashore, Cynthia Elliott, Lauren Gifford, Colleen Honigsberg, Lena Klaassen, H. Damon Matthews, Andi Peng, Christian Stoll, Marian Van Pelt, Ross A. Virginia, Lucas Joppa
  
  Nature | July 2022, Vol 607
  
  Publication
- Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario
  
  H. Damon Matthews, Kirsten Zickfeld, Mitchell Dickau, Alexander J. MacIsaac, Sabine Mathesius, Claude-Michel Nzotungicimpaye, Amy Luers
  
  Communications Earth & Environment | March 2022, Vol 3(65)
  
  Publication Project
- Microsoft’s million-tonne CO2-removal purchase — lessons for net zero
  
  Lucas Joppa, Amy Luers, Elizabeth Willmott, S. Julio Friedmann, Steven P. Hamburg, Rafael Broze
  
  Nature | September 2021, Vol 597: pp. 629-632
  
  Publication DOI Project
- Planetary intelligence for sustainability in the digital age: Five priorities
  
  Amy Luers
  
  One Earth | June 2021, Vol 4(6): pp. 772-775
  
  Publication DOI Project
- The climate policy narrative for a dangerously warming world
  
  Todd Sanford, Peter C. Frumhoff, Amy Luers, Jay Gulledge
  
  Nature Climate Change | February 2014, Vol 4: pp. 164-166
  
  Publication Project
- Assessing the vulnerability of social-environmental systems
  
  Hallie Eakin, Amy Lynd Luers
  
  Annual Review of Environment and Resources | November 2006, Vol 31: pp. 365-394
  
  Publication Project
- A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science
  
  B. L. Turner II, Roger E. Kasperson, Pamela A. Matson, James J. McCarthy, Robert W. Corell, Lindsey Christensen, Noelle Eckley, Jeanne X. Kasperson, Amy Luers, Marybeth L. Martello, Colin Polsky, Alexander Pulsipher, Andrew Schiller
  
  PNAS | June 2003, Vol 100(14): pp. 8074-8079
  
  Publication Project

Amy Luers

Publications

Corporate Biodiversity Reporting Can Be Scaled with AI and Earth Observation—But Will Miss the Point Without Guidance from Conservation Scientists

Maximizing Nature-based Solutions using Artificial Intelligence to align global biodiversity, climate, and water targets

Energy Use of AI Inference: Efficiency Pathways and Test-Time Compute

Net Zero needs AI – five actions to realize its promise

Earth Alignment Principle for Artificial Intelligence

Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions?

Accounting for the climate benefit of temporary carbon storage in nature

A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

Digitalization and the Anthropocene

Climate risk assessment needs urgent improvement

Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable — build interoperable systems

Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario

Microsoft’s million-tonne CO2-removal purchase — lessons for net zero

Planetary intelligence for sustainability in the digital age: Five priorities

The climate policy narrative for a dangerously warming world

Assessing the vulnerability of social-environmental systems

A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science

Maximizing Nature-based Solutions using Artificial Intelligence to align global biodiversity, climate, and water targets

Corporate Biodiversity Reporting Can Be Scaled with AI and Earth Observation—But Will Miss the Point Without Guidance from Conservation Scientists

Energy Use of AI Inference: Efficiency Pathways and Test-Time Compute

Net Zero needs AI – five actions to realize its promise

Earth Alignment Principle for Artificial Intelligence

Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions?

Maximizing Nature-based Solutions using Artificial Intelligence to align global biodiversity, climate, and water targets

Energy Use of AI Inference: Efficiency Pathways and Test-Time Compute

Net Zero needs AI – five actions to realize its promise

Earth Alignment Principle for Artificial Intelligence

Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions?

Accounting for the climate benefit of temporary carbon storage in nature

A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

Digitalization and the Anthropocene

Climate risk assessment needs urgent improvement

Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable — build interoperable systems

Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario

Microsoft’s million-tonne CO2-removal purchase — lessons for net zero

Planetary intelligence for sustainability in the digital age: Five priorities

The climate policy narrative for a dangerously warming world

Assessing the vulnerability of social-environmental systems

A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science

Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable — build interoperable systems

Maximizing Nature-based Solutions using Artificial Intelligence to align global biodiversity, climate, and water targets

Energy Use of AI Inference: Efficiency Pathways and Test-Time Compute

Corporate Biodiversity Reporting Can Be Scaled with AI and Earth Observation—But Will Miss the Point Without Guidance from Conservation Scientists

Net Zero needs AI – five actions to realize its promise

Earth Alignment Principle for Artificial Intelligence

Will AI accelerate or delay the race to net-zero emissions?

Accounting for the climate benefit of temporary carbon storage in nature

A global biodiversity observing system to unite monitoring and guide action

Digitalization and the Anthropocene

Climate risk assessment needs urgent improvement

Make greenhouse-gas accounting reliable — build interoperable systems

Temporary nature-based carbon removal can lower peak warming in a well-below 2 °C scenario

Microsoft’s million-tonne CO2-removal purchase — lessons for net zero

Planetary intelligence for sustainability in the digital age: Five priorities

The climate policy narrative for a dangerously warming world

Assessing the vulnerability of social-environmental systems

A framework for vulnerability analysis in sustainability science