Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action
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2021-11-24Author
Yogesh K., DwivediHughes, Laurie
Kar, Arpan Kumar
Baabdullah, Abdullah M.
Grover, Purva
Abbas, Roba
Andreini, Daniela
Abumoghli, Iyad
Barlette, Yves
Bunker, Deborah
Chandra Kruse, Leona
Constantiou, Ioanna
Davison, Robert M.
De’, Rahul
Dubey, Rameshwar
Fenby-Taylor, Henry
Gupta, Babita
He, Wu
Kodama, Mitsuru
Mäntymäki, Matti
Metri, Bhimaraya
Michael, Katina
Olaisen, Johan
Panteli, Niki
Pekkola, Samuli
Nishant, Rohit
Raman, Ramakrishnan
Rana, Nripendra P.
Rowe, Frantz
Sarker, Suprateek
Scholtz, Brenda
Sein, Maung
Shah, Jeel Dharmeshkumar
Teo, Thompson S.H.
Tiwari, Manoj Kumar
Vendelø, Morten Thanning
Wade, Michael
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The UN COP26 2021 conference on climate change offers the chance for world leaders to take action and make urgent and meaningful commitments to reducing emissions and limit global temperatures to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels by 2050. Whilst the political aspects and subsequent ramifications of these fundamental and critical decisions cannot be underestimated, there exists a technical perspective where digital and IS technology has a role to play in the monitoring of potential solutions, but also an integral element of climate change solutions. We explore these aspects in this editorial article, offering a comprehensive opinion based insight to a multitude of diverse viewpoints that look at the many challenges through a technology lens. It is widely recognized that technology in all its forms, is an important and integral element of the solution, but industry and wider society also view technology as being part of the problem. Increasingly, researchers are referencing the importance of responsible digitalization to eliminate the significant levels of e-waste. The reality is that technology is an integral component of the global efforts to get to net zero, however, its adoption requires pragmatic tradeoffs as we transition from current behaviors to a more climate friendly society.
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