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Decarbonisation through digitalization?

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Name: Decarbonisation through digitalization? Understanding and improving the climate implications of digital lifestyles

Project leader: Matthias Lehner 

Duration: December 2024 – November 2028

Collaborators: KTH, Chalmers 

IIIEE researchers: Jessika Richter, Oksana Mont

Financing body: 

Aim:

  • Establish an empirically based understanding of how digitalization impacts GHG emissions of consumption today,
  • Use this evidence to develop future scenarios of digitalization’s impact on GHG emissions of consumption,
  • Develop policy recommendation for digitalization that support the development towards future low-carbon consumption patterns.

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