Climate Tech
The intersection of digital technology and climate action presents both opportunity and paradox. While digital tools enable emissions monitoring, smart grid management, and carbon market mechanisms, AI data centres' surging energy demand threatens to undermine climate targets. GDEF examines policy mechanisms to align digital transformation with decarbonisation goals, the design of effective carbon credit markets, and the role of technology in climate adaptation.
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2 publications exploring this topic.
Mechanism Design for Global Carbon Credit Markets
Voluntary carbon markets face a credibility crisis. We apply Vickrey-Clarke-Groves mechanism design to propose market structures that align individual incentives with climate outcomes.
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Climate Tech and the Green Digital Transition
Digital infrastructure consumes 1.5–2% of global electricity and rising fast. This report analyses the tension between digital transformation and decarbonisation through externality theory.
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Investigating the systemic implications of emerging technologies — including artificial intelligence, distributed ledger systems, and quantum computing — for industrial competitiveness, workforce transformation, and responsible innovation governance.
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