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It's Not perfect, but we are Well starting our presentation here We were asked to provide some insights on on some international processes some global processes And I'm happy to present here as a first presenter on codes the codes coalition It's the coalition for digital environmental sustainability And is working on the UN level on the global level with amended by the UN secretary general And I will provide a quick overview on why we exist what we are doing and how you can start engaging with us as well Afterwards we try to include sirin from giz to present something on Giz global work in this perspective and Christian will close the the panel session with some of uber's contributions a German environmental agency in this regard And options for further engagement with civil society actors, etc. And then we can have an open-ending discussion So the general motivation of course is that we see two mega transformations ongoing In this century there's a sustainability transformation and the digital transformation with very different dynamics, of course The digital transformation driven by economic interests different stakeholders that engage here And the sustainability transformation, of course, that still needs a lot of engagement and action to further develop and to succeed We have very different paths ahead for the future just Yeah To exemplary ones we at codes are still Of the opinion that we are not yet on track regarding our sustainability goals and that digitalization is not yet Really supporting sustainability agenda around the world So we really have to start shaping this and also engage on the intern the transnational on the global level in the relevant political Forer to foster this to make a difference here We of course can envision a green and positive future also including tech where tech supports biodiversity protection where tech support circularity in our economic frameworks and sectors where tech supports humans getting connected having access to different resources and to further Strive for the good, but of course we are as said not yet on track At the moment we accelerate the triple planetary crisis with many impacts of digital technology and digital change Accelerating resource consumption inequalities and social divisions Codes itself then is a response really to do two blind spots Most of you are familiar with the left-hand side the 2030 agenda the big UN agenda with our 17 sustainable development goals that were developed in 2015 But had a big blind spot they did not really anticipate digital change as really a transformative a disruptive force for all its 17 goals So digital technologies technology as such is rarely mentioned in this important document that really streamlines the global again Agenda for corporation worldwide tech digital change digital transformation is missing big blind spot and Then second very surprisingly on the right-hand side You see the UN Secretary-General's roadmap for digital cooperation, and this was published 2020 And even though that in the UN system the 2030 agenda is of course very relevant and quite mainstreamed The sustainability dimensions the environmental dimensions of digital change were also missing so this led to the establishment of another track Mandated by the UN General Secretary With a mandate to further develop To conceptualize to work for this environmental sustainability dimension in digital cooperation. This is the mandate of codes What is codes? Hello. No What is codes? Is it working still? Now it's better Codes is on its day-by-day business so to say driven and Carried by different set of code champions see on the left-hand side So the German environmental agency as the German branch But also the UN environmental program UNEP the UN development program International Science Council future earth as sustainability in the digital age and The Republic of Kenya as well as an African partner in our network And we in our weekly meeting so to say in our effort to create different documents and foster action political action Work close closely together to to further develop this coalition We are in close contact due to the mandate with a tech envoy Recently appointed I'm a deep Jill by the way Also very inspiring person you can look up and we meet regularly and align our agenda We also have a growing community you can sign in so to say you can yeah Align yourself to us and there are over a thousand individuals in different organizations already joining this community In these first 12 months of our existence We developed this action plan the action plan for a sustainable planet in the digital age And I will just briefly in a couple of slides guide you through these topics It's a co-creative process How we developed this agenda? We had a debate in the UN General Assembly on this topics We have different consultations different stakeholder rounds where we engaged an online webinars with different audiences and We had a big conference 2021 organized and also participated in several political fora in this regard so we for example presented a draft at the UN Environmental Assembly in Nairobi To discuss with different stakeholders and finally in June this year So a couple of months ago. We presented the codes action plan as our first important product in Stockholm in Stockholm plus 50 is an important Celebrity or a celebration moment in Stockholm to To celebrate 50 years of a UN environmental program and further action So we were also asked to develop a very simple narrative how to structure this and On the very upper level so to say the highest level This is what we came up in these consultations and in our core group with our different co-authors The three systemic shifts we're calling for three systemic shifts for collective action On this top level. It's really about first aligning digitalization with sustainable development Creating different links. I give some examples in a minute to mitigate the negative impacts of digital infrastructure And to accelerate also of course also invest in digital innovations and social innovations connected to these digital tools for our sustainability agenda You don't have to dive into this but we also in the product itself in the action plan Exemplify these three shifts with different examples. We call them six strategic priorities each So we talk about six enable us to create this alignment in the first shift so to connect communities build competencies in different regards To address six important important urgent problems. Think about high energy use You are very aware here at the conference about that the the material base of digital change so from the rare earth metals in the different countries The whole supply chain up to e-waste problems Of course big problems, but also all these problems regarding and global perspective a development perspective digital divides access to technology to really applications that help to to foster sustainable development and We identify six innovations here That we think are important to foster to engage in for example What we call a planetary digital twin the whole idea on how to use better Environmental data for assessment making for understanding nature for protecting biodiversity hotspots Unab is for example working in this field very heavily with with their environmental intelligence room collecting data making constant assessments so to say Digital twin the circularity issue of course very important and the many fields were really concrete Enhancements of lives in the developed world for example can be created with just transition tools Lastly and I think this is the last wheel you see here on the slide But we also thought about different impact initiatives so initiatives concrete initiatives where we wanted to start to collaborate with other actors That we want to promote that we briefly sketched also in the in the action plan itself These nine impact initiatives we call them for implementation. They are catalytic In style so they have to lever transformational change They have to be global in character and they have to be multi stakeholder based and we are Actually in the implement implementation already. I think that's quite quick. I myself am surprised I just want to give you a quick glimpse for example our Canadian partners of future earth started to develop a program on Education for digital sustainable development and they want to upscale this in collaboration with UNESCO the next year To make it a global program the German environmental agency for example started a team and Started building up a workshop series to develop this idea of a green digital infrastructure pledge for state actors So sustainable procurement we talked about a lot in this conference for example So we are in the first steps to engage with environmental in European environmental agencies, but also other civil society actors Already engaged in this field. So the idea is not that we Implement everything. We are a small team of co-champions or with a with a with a community around it But that we really strengthen the ties to different organizations institutions stakeholders that already Do work in these fields and can foster change here The seventh impact initiative for example digital sustainability innovation hubs Fancy name. It's really the idea to to create a regional Local network to co-develop with local stakeholders research practitioners on the ground in the development context solutions that really help in the field of medicine tailor medicine for example or education weather data etc and the UNDP development program is starting already to work on that to Bring this into practice with the different other stakeholders and last not least data and assessments as digital public goods Here I'm very pleased that hopefully a certain from G. I said is with us today because UNEP and hopefully G. I said as well are partnering up to further develop this idea to Make a study with different stakeholders member states stakeholders what this could entail and how what kind of environmental data sets and what kind of a platform and capacity build it could be really useful for Different countries in the world And and and how this could be established So as I said we refer to different relevant Processes on the UN level here on the left-hand side and we really try to steer and foster the debate at different Political occasions here on the right-hand side and I with my final slides Want to briefly give you an idea on how to further engage the summit of the future is an important date This was delayed one year now a couple of weeks ago. So this will happen now in 2024 Because here the global digital compact will be discussed and and negotiated and finalized So this is an important international process. You should all care about because you also can engage in it You can join the coast community online. You can engage in our around tables We will have a site event at IGF the internet governance forum this year in Ethiopia You can of course with your organization start to co-lead an impact initiative also Yeah Advocate for codes as an expert and Of course, I mean as we are here in Germany It's also important to mention that we as German environmental agency are here as it so-called German link to this international network We have different tools also online available. So with the action plan we published Open stakeholder mapping as an annex to this action plan. So here you can have a look Discover the different stakeholders we collected in an online accessible air table and a mapping device where you can play around a little bit with and You can also submit your own initiative Lastly, I want to you to urge and have a look at the global digital compact more in depth This was delayed of course now for one year, but nevertheless you can contribute to the global digital compact process So this is an open stakeholder Conversation at the moment and there's an online tool where you can really provide your input as an individual as an organization to To help shape this discussion That's it for now Yeah, thanks a lot That's good Okay You can just get a presentation time when you make this and I'm Also, I just want to say oh, I'm very happy to put this is of English No, so I'm very happy to participate in the presentation And it's so impugna work for the G. I said that's the program lead and The specific offer the digital and green twin transition So for us, it's very important that the intersection between green and digital Transformation is not yet fully developed. It's in the really area that is it's evolving and also working a lot with CODIS and UNEP and the other partners in providing support in development of CODIS so that the At the in fact the green and digital transformation is taking place at the same time and they're closely intertwined with each other and We really believe that digital innovation such as AI blockchain IOT supercomputing provide unprecedented opportunities on the one hand to enhance the sustainability of the digital sector and Then to be an important abler for Climate action across all sectors, but what is very important that there's a radical thinking and business models required So because business as usual just not be sufficient to address the climate crisis Another very important topic we believe is to take the best innovations out of the lab into the market So especially for us in Europe. It's a real challenge to commercialize the digital tech Innovations and we face a lot of challenges in the actual scale up of tech solutions Because of the lack of early-stage financing and also both financing. So we have a real innovation Gap and innovations. A lot of startups face serious issues of scaling up there and their problems So the next so here's of course the quarters, but I think you've already discussed that three important issues of aligning alignment Common vision Mitigating negative impact Accelerating innovations. So it's really about addressing both greening of ICTs and ICTs for green Now the issue is that the environmental footprint of digital technologies Is rapidly increasing. So you have a real challenge there So six to eight percent of electric electricity consumption is caused by the ICT sector and two to four percent of carbon emissions, but there are actually projections that the carbon emissions of the tech of the digital sector could increase to eight or almost ten percent if we don't take actions now And to manage it. So data centers alone account a very important percentage of Carbon emissions, but not just data centers. It's also issue evaced Devices for the mobile phones are a very big issue and What is very important to enhance the life cycle and to enhance circularity in digital devices? so now Concretely, what are we doing about this? So we as the G.I. said right now work very closely with Ministry the BM said and the EU but also with a consortium of different EU member states, so Sweden Germany, France, Belgium, Estonia Finland Also Spain Spain to sit on a Call to quote in Europe initiative, which is basically bringing all the countries together To develop a joint up program to address these challenges and support Developing countries around the world is a global program So the account designing and it has these four major opponents The first is to address in abling environment and policy framework Because it's not just about tech solutions. A key topic. We are seeing is That most countries have no policies in place no regulatory framework Which actually is addressing the issue of twin transition a key topic We are here seeing is that many times there are ministries of environment and then ministries of digital ICTs and There's very little Overlap and here we are proposing basically to put together A joint up program between the different ministries within government We've been just and just back from a fact-finding mission. We have the data economy The environment issues in eight African countries and that has occurred as a major request from countries like South Africa Kenya Senegal Wanda who really would like to work and address the issues of the digital and green twin transition But right now Requires strong support and technical assistance in this area So this is component two to raise the awareness of the topic particularly of the intersection of green and digital and Then provide technical assistance to policy makers in a multi-stakeholder approach So we'll be working closely with the private sector as the academia civil society and the end governments in promoting this Thinking the third we find we think is essential. So which is about the innovation ecosystems So we just know also in our close partners with UNF triple C and UNEP One issue we have seen is that the current technologies are not sufficient To address the climate change Challenges so we have to innovate startups have to develop new tech and there are many startups that work closely on green tech But the enabling environment here the ecosystems need to be strengthened And that's why we are working closely also through related programs to support the innovation hubs a Network of innovation hubs which would in Europe is called the digital innovation hub program and be linked then Plan is to link innovation hubs in the African region in Latin America Asia with Hops and research centers in in Europe and the last point is Critical here is actually the access to finance. So everybody talks about climate action and finance But in fact the venture capital market is only focusing six to eight percent of Global venture capital financing goes towards green tech. So it's very challenging So it's already challenging in in Germany or Europe to find financing particularly for the Scale-up phase. So it's the incubation phase, but you know, it's usually well Still possible say to raise one or two million at the early stage of innovation But once to scale up your innovations, it's very challenging. And so we basically work with Different DFI's the development finance institutions to develop improved access to finance in this area here the KFW plays a critical role, but also EIB and World Bank and other DFI's so This is at the core here. You see the the partners for this twin transition Dishley Europe, excuse me Europe In transition joined up program of team Europe, which is basically here Of course the core is the European Union for the global gateway program But we have strong partnership with UNEP orders UNEP UNFCCC and And others also the African Union. So here then would be more details of each component So regulations framework again access to finance, but I'm sure you are short of time So I just wanted to emphasize that We are working closely in also linking the ecosystems between Europe Germany and And Africa region and Latin America because that's essential to have this innovation Partnership to bringing the people who work on this area in this area and the thought leaders together To implement then concrete and specific programs on the ground on the last area So I forgot to mention, but it's really important. So we also plan on supporting Demonstration projects like real use cases a air pollution control program through the digital Smart city programs in agriculture. So to really provide support to the concrete implementation of Demonstration projects on the ground and here we see a lot of potential to Work together and able both a south-to-south learning exchange say between the Africa region Latin America and Asia But also to facilitate innovation and knowledge partnerships between Europe and Our partners in developing countries. Thank you so much for having me and I hope you have a great rest Thank you. Thank you Yeah, hello, I won't take over I'm Christian Lue from the German Environment Agency and I Want to give you a little bit only five six minutes and then we go into a discussion How important is to talk on? Governance, I think Bites and Boymer in 2018 but also today shows how it's difficult to Formalize and and global agenda on on on this very complex matter and I'm very thankful that Bites and Boymer represents the kind of a Voice of civil society because there is one big problem in this area That civil society is not visible in all these international governments And so it's a moment. I want to talk a little bit that the digital governance Over a transported by ITU and others are a very strong disruptor of existing governing structures and So important is that we are not having only national policies or European white policies We need the call for a global governance system system and I will show you that the dynamics are Are now coming up that The digital is overloading I will say the existing governing system and is Contradictionary to other forms of global governance for for example gender equity and child Safety human rights and so on and I think that was a the common notion on on the first day on Friday How we response as a as an actor not only as a government as a society and so I will show you a little bit How how how the international governance system is already existing and it's not very easy to position political demand we have to develop an understanding that there are out a lot of complex institutional mechanism and procedures and For example, that's a global and Environment governance system is already complex with all these conventions procedures Institutional setting so for CSOs for civil society Organization it's very hard to create capacities to be a partner in this negotiation process and member states are also losing grounds compared to global Organized companies for example, so we have to develop a kind of understanding Understanding that is not enough to put a declaration on on on the table and and demanding it We have to think about who we want to direct this Declaration and so the institution of uber created in 70 1974 was one of the institution to create such a body of evidence-based policies and We as uber we have seven hundred Employees we are sitting in over three hundred different international committees and and and agencies So that means that it's not very easy to establish a codes action plan or to establish a new Global regulatory committee we have to anticipate that there are so many different institutions and This makes it for CSO very complex to be all in the same room and for example We have to define what is the rule of g7 g20 for example, or we have to talk What's a European council is important and so on so it is a kind of learning of Institutions that is very important especially for CSO addressing Their demands in their positions Jump over a little bit What we're doing in the digital agenda. I mean codes is not a standalone activity It is a kind of a complementary activity that started already in 2019 where the Scientific body of VGP who launched their report. It was complemented by Bites and Boymer as a more alternative view on the thing But also the government developed their digital strategies and also the environmental ministry developed their strategy in 2020 this was a Coincidence that we already had that we had the German presidency at the EU so it was important to have a national strategy and Complimented a EU presidency council conclusion on this. So this is a kind of a policy design. We have to a standard So we use the opportunity or the venue of opportunity to even Put something on the top with codes as in global framework of action and and so this is a kind of a Design of a policy area that is not very easily to understand. It is not very easily to Disrupt it is not very easily to influence. So how how we want to influence as in as in governmental body First of all, I think green IT that is a core competence without green IT understanding without the Understanding that we need international standards without standards. We cannot Create accountability. We cannot create transparency and We cannot define what is Responsibility, yeah, if you have not a kind of a common set of understanding of criterias So green IT in terms of Criteers of energy efficient data centers or the question how are standards for green coding activities? So that is very important to understand the standardization bodies At the moment by some bum I haven't met anybody from the standardization bodies Why they are not here and discussing with us Then the question of data governance I mean we as the uber was created as an institution to organize datas Because datas are the baseline for evidence-based environmental policies. So we are now developing a kind of Integration model and also we institutionalized the so-called national environmental data center So we are not only collecting but we are trying to harmonizing and to integrate datas because there are so many different data What kind of free two for they are not used Yeah, so the government is collecting data, but they are not organized to be Useful and so this is the role to put all the different data from a global European national and Local level together, but also we are developing now with a close to 20 million euro program how Artificial intelligence machine learning can help us to create our own competencies in this area is not only to regulate Artificial intelligence, but to create a momentum and the competence to use Visually IE applications within our governmental duties So we are setting up a new institutional body in Leipzig with close to 20 people. They are creating Machine learning applications for environmental policies Then I think it's very important the question of governance and social ecological transformation because that is where civil society organization and Individuals can make a difference because here is not only the question of modeling for example the resource consumption of future trends of Digital technologies. It is also a question of how we want to democrat Environmental policy because a digital solution can help to increase the level of Participation, so we are also making research for example in the area of smart cities and livelihoods For example, how we can create in an urban environment e participation models for more Sustainability in urban development processes or we are developing in framework How digital sufficiency could be part of a policy agenda that is not a self-runner It is not only on the question of how digital solution can help to make more efficient No, we have to question and to put to frame it How digital sufficiency can be part of the European policy agenda for example, but we are also doing The role of serious gaming so we are trying to open up a different communities to pay in into a common agenda and What is very important and I was surprised that that was not based on the first panel on Friday the role of institutions I mean the question of how is digital age will change our institutions itself. So the question of What is a modern? Government how is what is the question of usability etc. Etc. So this is a package of I would say our contribution to a European or a global agenda and the last we have also some funds to help to support initiatives for example We have for example an ongoing project with concept work New economy so we we are trying to to build competencies and capacities in in civil society These two projects with concept work new economy and the Bayou and gay project on self-determined digitalization are a co-funding of the Bites and Boymer because a lot of Sessions in the three days are co-financed by our institutions for example and that is good We have to create a kind of interplay So and interesting we are also partnering with cultural institution because our understanding is that is not only a technical revolution It's a cultural revolution and we have to understand how to bridge environmental policy with social policy with cultural policy and that makes a bigger deal and So we question you and others We know that we are working with Ralph Bushman from B&J with Tillman's Antares and all but we need much more institution much more people and The ministry is developing a kind of a community network on this issue sustainable Digitalization you can sign up, but I think we can offer you also How we want to use the Bites and Boymer 2022 To make a follow-up That makes an impact in the political agenda and this could be an important of discussion. Thank you very much