dc.contributor.author | BORCHERT, Ingo | |
dc.contributor.author | FRABBONI, Maria | |
dc.contributor.author | KASAP, Atilla | |
dc.contributor.author | KIRA, Beatriz | |
dc.contributor.author | LYDGATE, Emily | |
dc.contributor.author | NYAMBINYA, Jeremiah | |
dc.contributor.author | SASMAL, Sunayana | |
dc.date.accessioned | 2023-12-13T09:12:39Z | |
dc.date.available | 2023-12-13T09:12:39Z | |
dc.date.issued | 2023 | |
dc.identifier.uri | https://hdl.handle.net/1814/76166 | |
dc.description | Published online: 20 November 2023 | en |
dc.description.abstract | Key points: • The critical issue of climate impacts has been largely overlooked in global discussions concerning the digital economy. • Cryptocurrency, in particular, is associated with staggering energy use statistics. In an average year, Bitcoin consumes more energy than Finland. • Difficulties regulating digital energy use stem from the non-centralised, possibly anonymised and/or non-proprietary structures and global nature of many digital operations. • Digital platforms have information about the usage of digital services that, if shared with policymakers and researchers, could facilitate the development of sustainable solutions for digital value chains and beyond. • Policymakers must act to bridge sustainability policy and digital policy initiatives and ensure that policies reduce the environmental footprint stemming from life-cycle effects of digital technologies. • A key plank of such policy coordination should be the strengthening and mainstreaming of a principle of data minimization. | en |
dc.format.mimetype | application/pdf | en |
dc.language.iso | en | en |
dc.publisher | Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP) | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Centre for Inclusive Trade Policy (CITP) | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | Briefing Paper | en |
dc.relation.ispartofseries | 2023/08 | en |
dc.relation.uri | https://citp.ac.uk/publications/addressing-the-climate-gap-in-digital-technologies | en |
dc.rights | info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess | en |
dc.title | Addressing the climate gap in digital technologies | en |
dc.type | Other | en |