Towards a green and digital future

OnlineNov 21, 2024 | 3:30 PM - 5:00 PM

Description

Digital technologies and digital infrastructure play a key role in shaping policy pathways to achieve net-zero targets, helping to advance solutions that can significantly accelerate the green transition across economic sectors. However, they also carry an environmental footprint that must be measured and minimised across their life cycle. As digital transformation progresses, the dual impact of digital technologies on sustainability – both positive and negative – is gaining increased policy attention. This session will launch the forthcoming report on the Review of the Relevance of the OECD Recommendation on Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and the Environment, as a first step towards revising the Recommendation. It will analyse key trends in the environmental impact of digital technologies, discuss challenges to measure and assess their direct, enabling, and systemic effects on the environment, and identify policy priorities and challenges to align the green and digital twin transitions and accelerating action for environmental sustainability.

Moderated by

AGF

Alexia González Fanfalone

OECD

Head of the Connectivity Services and Infrastructures Unit

https://www.linkedin.com/in/alexia-lee-gonz%C3%A1lez-fanfalone-86221338/?originalSubdomain=fr

Speakers

Garrett Blaney

Commission for Communications Regulation (ComReg)

Commissioner

https://www.linkedin.com/in/garrett-blaney-27651a11/?originalSubdomain=ie

Robert Dawson

OECD

Economist/Policy Analyst

Antonia Gawel

Google

Global Director of Sustainability & Partnerships

https://www.linkedin.com/in/antonia-gawel-393b0710/

George Kamiya

GSMA

Senior Manager of Climate Action

https://www.linkedin.com/in/georgekamiya/

Johannes Kirnberger

OECD

Policy Consultant

Grazyna Piesiewicz

European Commission

Head of Unit, High Performance Computing and Applications, Destination Earth

https://www.linkedin.com/in/grazyna-piesiewicz-6174371/

Find out more Related resources

This report takes stock of technology and policy developments since the adoption of the Recommendation and provides a gap analysis and assessment of its relevance, concluding that the Recommendation remains relevant and identifying areas for revision.

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