Author:

Martina Fromhold-Eisebith, Ulrike Grote, Ellen Matthies, Dirk Messner, Karen Pittel, Hans Joachim Schellnhuber, Ina Schieferdecker, Sabine Schlacke, Uwe Schneidewind

Publisher:

German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)

Description:

The report makes it clear that sustainability strategies and concepts must be fundamentally further developed in the age of digitisation. 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.

 

In addition to the summary, <link https: www.wbgu.de fileadmin user_upload wbgu publikationen hauptgutachten hg2019 pdf wbgu_hgd2019_recommendations.pdf _blank external-link-new-window>research recommendations are also available as pdf downloads.

Note: The full text of the report will be published in the coming months.

Page count:

32

Copyright:

German Advisory Council on Global Change (WBGU)