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WBGU report: Our Common Digital Future

This flagship report by the German Advisory Council on Global Change advocates that digitalisation must be placed in the service of global sustainability.

WBGU report. Our Common Digital Future
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Only if digital change and the Transformation towards Sustainability are synchronized can we succeed in advancing climate and Earth-system protection and in making social progress in human development. Without formative political action, digital change will further accelerate resource and energy consumption, and exacerbate damage to the environment and the climate. It is therefore an urgent political task to create the conditions needed to place digitalization at the service of sustainable development.

Read more and download the full report here

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  • Digitisation
English, German