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Climate change and COP26: Are digital technologies and information management part of the problem or the solution? An editorial reflection and call to action

Yogesh K. Dwivedi; Laurie Hughes; Arpan Kumar Kar; Abdullah M. Baabdullah; Purva Grover; Roba Abbas; Daniela Andreini; Iyad Abumoghli; Yves Barlette; Deborah Bunker; Leona Chandra Kruse; Ioanna Constantiou; Robert M. Davison; Rahul Dé; Rameshwar Dubey; Henry Fenby-Taylor; Babita Gupta; Wu He; Mitsuru Kodama; Matti Mäntymäki; Bhimaraya Metri; Katina Michael; Johan Olaisen; Niki Panteli; Samuli Pekkola; Rohit Nishant; Ramakrishnan Raman; Nripendra P. Rana; Frantz Rowe; Suprateek Sarker; Brenda Scholtz; Maung K. Sein; Jeel Dharmeshkumar Shah; Thompson S.H. Teo; Manoj Kumar Tiwari; Morten Thanning Vendelø; Michael Wade

International Journal of Information Management · 2021

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Summary

The UN COP26 2021 conference on climate change offers the chance for world leaders to take action and make urgent and meaningful commitments to reducing emissions and limit global temperatures to 1.5 °C above pre-industrial levels by 2050. Whilst the political aspects and subsequent ramifications of these fundamental and critical decisions cannot be underestimated, there exists a technical perspective where digital and IS technology has a role to play in the monitoring of potential solutions, but also an integral element of climate change solutions. We explore these aspects in this editorial article, offering a comprehensive opinion based insight to a multitude of diverse viewpoints that look at the many challenges through a technology lens. It is widely recognized that technology in all i

Source type
Peer-reviewed study
DOI
10.1016/j.ijinfomgt.2021.102456
Catalogue ID
NRmo9rin9c-0na
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