Consultancy : COP, SAGES, AI

Consultancy Opportunity: COP
31 Support, SAGES, AI and more

July 17, 2026

By CCG

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Climate Compatible Growth (CCG) is developing a coordinated work programme around SAGES (Shared AI Governance for Energy Systems), artificial intelligence, energy-system modelling, stakeholder engagement and delivery towards COP
31.
This opportunity covers all of these areas.

COP
31 Support, SAGES AI Coordination and Stakeholder Discovery

We are looking for an external consultant to coordinate stakeholder discovery, working groups, COP
31 engagement, events, training review, partnership development, SAGES (Shared AI Governance for Energy Systems) artificial-intelligence work and priority web-content updates. You will work through structured engagement with research, international and policy partners, converting evidence into a dynamically prioritised delivery plan agreed with the Programme Director. The assignment is expected to run from mid August 2026 to 31 March 2027 for 130-140 working days, subject to confirmation.

Outputs will be assessed monthly and must follow U4

RIA guidelines. Applicants will be evaluated against the published mandatory and desirable criteria and must disclose any prior involvement or conflict of interest.

CCG is developing a coordinated work programme around SAGES, artificial intelligence, energy-system modelling, stakeholder engagement and delivery towards COP
31. This assignment will support the practical organisation of this work, drawing on the organisations that contributed to its development and using continuous discovery to identify and rank the most valuable next steps. You role will include converting stakeholder input into structured workplans, working groups, events, training recommendations, web updates and, where agreed, implementation tasks.

COP
31 is scheduled for 9-20 November 2026 in Antalya, Türkiye. The assignment therefore includes time-sensitive support to coordinate CCG feedback to the COP
31 Presidency, contribute to Action Agenda development, and establish relevant SAGES, CLEWS and OSeMOSYS events to be presented leading up to and/or ivities will include stakeholder coordination, programme development, event planning and delivery. Your assignment includes engagement with CCG’s country representatives and coordinating internal stakeholders for the country programme/INFINITE/Data-to-Deal showcase at COP
31.

The INFINITE/Data-to-Deal material describes a stakeholder-driven pathway connecting politics, capacity, vision, modelling, engagement, policy and finance. It positions CCG support as a means to translate climate targets into investment-ready portfolios, strengthen cross-institutional coordination, build modelling and finance capability, and support engagement with the COP
31 Presidency and climate-finance organisations. You will provide coordination capacity across these connected activities.

Execute selected follow-on tasks identified through continuous discovery where they are within the consultant’s demonstrated competence and agreed monthly priorities.

Operate a structured continuous-discovery process with SAGES, CCG, COP
31 and other priority stakeholders, converting evidence from meetings, correspondence and desk research into a dynamically ranked delivery backlog.

Establish and support effective SAGES Secretariat and Working Task Group arrangements, including agreed mandates, chairs/leads, authorship roles, constitutions or terms of reference, action logs and follow-up responsibilities, aligned with the SAGES framework’s proposed areas of vendor engagement, demonstration tools, sovereignty and IP safeguards, capacity building and model literacy.

Coordinate monthly SAGES calls and up to two additional priority stakeholder…