Digital Technology and the Environment

Environmental management and policy hold the potential to be an important data frontier. But the application of data and digital technologies to environmental sustainability remains limited and poorly understood among many environmental professionals and their stakeholders — including citizens. The environmental domain poses a number of unique challenges for successfully harnessing data and digitaltechnologies. 

These challenges are largely problems of policy frameworks, governance, business models, and the mobilization of capital, information and leadership, rather than technology limitations.

Data enables transparency and authenticity. By marrying digital technologies with abundant environmental data, transformative change to advance sustainability is attainable. 

But to succeed, it will be necessary to establish the right data governance, which, in turn, can enable open innovation.

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