TechnologyJune 25, 2018
Policy Makers Can Harness Digital Innovations to Reduce Carbon Emissions
Left to itself, the digitalization of energy supply and consumption is just as likely to raise emissions as lower them
Stories by Varun Sivaram
Varun Sivaram is a fellow for science and technology at the Council on Foreign Relations. He is the editor of Digital Decarbonization: Promoting Digital Innovations to Advance Clean Energy Systems (CFR Press, June 2018), and the author of Taming the Sun: Innovations to Harness Solar Energy and Power the Planet (MIT Press, March 2018).
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