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 …

Climate change is one of the most pressing global challenges facing society today, with
potentially detrimental sustainability impacts on individuals, organisations, and societies …

This paper reviews findings on the (potential) impacts of the digitalisation (or “digital
transformation”) on the environment, with a focus on non-energy impacts. We understand …

The materiality of digital communication inflicts substantial environmental damage: the
extraction of resources needed to produce digital devices; the toxicity of e-waste; and the …

In this book, Steffen Lange and Tilman Santarius investigate how digitalization influences
environmental and social sustainability. The information revolution is currently changing the …

Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) are contributing both to environmental
problems and to their solution. Will ICT producers, users and recyclers be the major polluters …

The Internet of Things (IoT) is a conceptual paradigm that connects billions of Internet-
enabled devices to exchange data among themselves and their surroundings to enable …

Digitalization and sustainability are currently 'hot'topics for policymakers and practitioners.
Scholars working on their interaction have been cautious in their optimism, though. Not all …

The emerging economies of Brazil, Russia, India, China and South Africa (BRICS) have
significant influence on the global economic and environmental trajectories. They have …

When in 2015, 193 countries agreed on 17 sustainable development goals, the nations'
delegates signed a challenging agenda aimed to render this planet livable for future …