Sustainability in the Digital Age

In their 2011 flagship report "World in Transition - A Social Contract for Sustainability", the "Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen / German Advisory Council on Global Change" (WBGU), sketched the transformation towards sustainability, which takes place in the context of profound digital transformations. The WBGU explores how digital technologies can support the change towards sustainabilty and elaborates that digitalisation itself produces sustainability challenges of a new generation.

Project Lead:
Dirk Messner

Frauke Kraas
Claus Leggewie
Peter Lemke
Ellen Matthies
Nebojsa Nakicenovic
Hans Joachim Schellnhuber
Sabine Schlacke
Uwe Schneidewind

Project Team:

Marian Feist

Financing:
Bundesministerium für Bildung und Forschung (BMBF) und Bundesministerium für Umwelt, Naturschutz, Bau und Reaktorsicherheit (BMUB)

Time frame:
2018 - 2019 / completed

Co-operation Partner:

"Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen" (WBGU) 

Project description

In their 2011 flagship report "World in Transition - A Social Contract for Sustainability", the "Wissenschaftliche Beirat der Bundesregierung Globale Umweltveränderungen / German Advisory Council on Global Change" (WBGU), sketched the transformation towards sustainability, which takes place in the context of profound digital transformations. The WBGU explores how digital technologies can support the change towards sustainabilty and  elaborates that digitalisation itself produces sustainability challenges of a new generation.