Expert Workshop on Digitalisation Narratives and Climate Change Mitigation: Synthesis Report

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http://eprints.org/relation/isVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/109241 http://eprints.org/relation/isVolatileVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/109241 http://eprints.org/relation/isIndexCodesVersionOf https://pure.iiasa.ac.at/id/document/109241 archive 353 disk0/00/02/04/63 2025-03-21 07:35:41 2025-03-21 07:43:29 2025-03-21 07:43:29 monograph show 1 Wilson C. 8428 0000-0001-8164-3566 Verdolini E. Kumar P. Eker S. 2173 0000-0003-2264-132X Expert Workshop on Digitalisation Narratives and Climate Change Mitigation: Synthesis Report pub ECE S3 TISS 35 scientists and industry representatives gathered at the International Institute for Applied Systems Analysis (IIASA) outside Vienna in Austria on May 13-14, 2024, to build understanding of how both current and future trajectories of digital transformation impact emission-reduction efforts. This expert workshop on “Digitalisation Narratives and Climate Change Mitigation” was motivated by the weak explicit consideration of digitalisation in future scenarios and modelling assessments used to inform global climate policy. Participants explored the impacts of digitalisation on energy, materials, firms, markets, lifestyles, and society, and what these impacts mean for greenhouse gas emissions. Workshop activities and insights in this report are organised in three parts: digitalisation impact pathways; future narratives for digitalisation; and digitalisation in the SSP scenario framework used in climate change analysis. In sum, this synthesis report: (i) maps out the complexity and pervasiveness of digitalisation impacts across society and the economy; (ii) demonstrates how digitalisation is a double-edged sword with both positive and negative effects on jobs, on sustainable growth, and on user engagement and empowerment; (iii) counters a naïve perception that rapid digital transformation is necessarily aligned with climate goals; (iv) shows how firm and household-level digitalisation impacts have wider systemic consequences; (v) identifies common areas of understanding including on the importance of tackling the digital divide, fast paced AI developments, and societal risks from misinformation; (vi) exposes fault lines in expert opinion on the need for broad vs. narrow digital governance. 2025-03 published IIASA 10.5281/zenodo.15024068 333 2953 public report Laxenburg, Austria The impacts of digitalised daily life on climate change (iDODDLE, H2020 101003083) Disruptive Digitalization for Decarbonization (2D4D, H2020 853487) Developing circular pathways for a EU low-carbon transition (CircEUlar, HE 101056810) A step change in societal understanding of the transition to climate neutrality (AdJUST, HE 101069880) yes info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/101003083/EU//iDODDLE; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/H2020/853487/EU//2D4D; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/HE/101056810//CircEUlar; info:eu-repo/grantAgreement/EC/HE/101069880//AdJUST info:eu-repo/semantics/book info:eu-repo/semantics/openAccess