Climate and resource protection

Digitalisation generates considerable opportunities, but is also associated with a number of risks to nature and the environment. It is a key driver of climate and resource protection, but can at the same time be associated with potential negative impacts on the environment. To ensure that digitalisation as a whole develops a clearly positive effect on climate and resource protection, we pursue in particular the following objectives identified by the CDR Initiative:

Strengthening digital solutions to protect our environment

Digital solutions have the potential to contribute to the protection of our environment in many different ways. Digitally enhanced information for consumers can support sustainable consumer decisions. Digital technologies offer the potential to stabilise the balance of ecosystems and to reduce CO₂ emissions. We aim to develop or support such technologies to an increasing extent and to use them wherever this is feasible.

Designing and using information and communication technologies that protect the environment and resources

Some digital applications and the products based on them use considerable amounts of energy for their own operation. We make it our objective to design and use these technologies in ways that protect the environment and resources as far as possible over their entire lifecycle.