On the 23th and 24th of June 2023, the Digital Enabling of Circularity, Innovation, Development and Environment (DECIDE) project team from the UN Environment Programme and ETH Zurich challenged hackers at the UPU Hackathon to build data-driven solutions for reducing plastic pollution linked with e-commerce.
A financing ecosystem supported by data flows that capture the sustainability performances of companies and supply chains is needed to drive investments towards green growth and achieving the SDGs.
Efforts are being made globally to tackle food waste, but more needs to be done to ensure that the market is in tune to environmental impacts. Digital solutions can help open doors for food market transformation and drive sustainability.
Digital adoption has triggered qualitative changes for a green economy and renewable energy transition. However, for a transformation to happen, policymakers need to strategically address new business models that embrace the development and deployment of digital technologies for data generation, storage, transmission and analysis.
As China emerges from the coronavirus crisis, the government is assessing the opportunities and challenges as it looking to further invest in ICT and other digital technologies as part of the country’s recovery efforts.
