Agentic AI for Sustainability: Can Autonomous Agents Act as Environmental Stewards?

Traditional sustainability efforts are falling short. Manual oversight, fragmented data systems, and reactive decision-making create inefficiencies and dangerous blind spots that prevent organizations from responding to environmental challenges at the speed and scale required.

Enter agentic AI; autonomous agents that promise to monitor, optimize, and enforce sustainable practices continuously, without humans in the loop. But can artificial intelligence truly serve as our environmental steward? And what are the implications when we remove human judgment from sustainability decisions?