Chapter 09 · Sustainability & AISustainability & AI
Global Partnership on Artificial Intelligence (GPAI)
Definition
A multi-stakeholder initiative on responsible AI, established in 2020 with its Secretariat at the OECD, and since July 2024 operating as an integrated partnership with the OECD under the GPAI brand.
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Overview
What it means
GPAI was announced by France and Canada in 2019 and founded in 2020 to bridge AI theory and practice through expert working groups, including work on climate and environment. The integrated partnership announced at the 2024 New Delhi Summit initially brought together 44 countries across six continents on equal footing.
How it is used
Experts contribute to working groups and reports feeding national and international AI policy; governments use it as a coordination venue alongside the OECD's policy work. Its expert support centres operate in Paris, Montreal and Tokyo.
Why it matters
GPAI is the main standing body explicitly combining AI policy expertise with sustainability themes at intergovernmental level — a channel through which AI's environmental governance agenda is developed and diffused.
Current status
46 countries/regions participate as of April 2026 (GPAI/NICT expert-centre page).