TY - JOUR
T1 - A portrait of the different configurations between digitally-enabled innovations and climate governance
AU - Chuard, Pierre
AU - Garard, Jennifer
AU - Schulz, Karsten
AU - Kumarasinghe, Nilushi
AU - Rolnick, David
AU - Matthews, Damon
N1 - Funding Information:
This research was financially supported by the ClimateWorks Foundation . The authors are grateful to research assistants Edel Galgon and Béatrice Ayinkamiye for their work in contributing to the development and testing of the search methodology and in populating the database.
Publisher Copyright:
© 2022 The Authors
PY - 2022/8
Y1 - 2022/8
N2 - Rapid societal transformations are required to keep global average temperature rise well below 2 °C by 2050. An increasingly diverse set of initiatives are leveraging digital technologies to transform society. Given the rapid pace at which these initiatives emerge and the accelerated rate of technological innovation, few connections are made as to their common approaches and motivations. To address this, we developed a database of such initiatives from around the world. We propose a categorization of four types of strategies: data mobilization, optimization of existing strategies, incentivizing and automating behavioural change, and enhancing participation and empowerment of individuals. We analyse connections between types of strategies through the lens of the Earth System Governance framework's original 5 A's – Architecture, Agency, Adaptiveness, Accountability, and Allocation & Access. This work provides a first step towards understanding how digitally-enabled initiatives are contributing to re-imagining climate governance.
AB - Rapid societal transformations are required to keep global average temperature rise well below 2 °C by 2050. An increasingly diverse set of initiatives are leveraging digital technologies to transform society. Given the rapid pace at which these initiatives emerge and the accelerated rate of technological innovation, few connections are made as to their common approaches and motivations. To address this, we developed a database of such initiatives from around the world. We propose a categorization of four types of strategies: data mobilization, optimization of existing strategies, incentivizing and automating behavioural change, and enhancing participation and empowerment of individuals. We analyse connections between types of strategies through the lens of the Earth System Governance framework's original 5 A's – Architecture, Agency, Adaptiveness, Accountability, and Allocation & Access. This work provides a first step towards understanding how digitally-enabled initiatives are contributing to re-imagining climate governance.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85134343895
U2 - 10.1016/j.esg.2022.100147
DO - 10.1016/j.esg.2022.100147
M3 - Review article
AN - SCOPUS:85134343895
SN - 2589-8116
VL - 13
JO - Earth System Governance
JF - Earth System Governance
M1 - 100147
ER -