Description du projet
La numérisation comme catalyseur de la décarbonisation
La numérisation changera fondamentalement tous les secteurs de l’économie européenne au cours des prochaines décennies. Dans le même temps, l’UE s’est engagée à atteindre des émissions nettes de carbone nulles d’ici 2050. Ces deux transformations s’affecteront l’une l’autre sans aucun doute, mais nous ignorons la mesure dans laquelle elles se soutiendront mutuellement. Plus important encore, la transformation numérique risque de retarder les progrès vers une économie à zéro émission nette de carbone. Le projet 2D4D, financé par l’UE, vise à garantir que la transformation numérique sera un catalyseur de la décarbonisation. Le projet identifiera et mesurera les conséquences de la décarbonisation des technologies de numérisation perturbatrices dans trois secteurs difficiles: la fabrication additive dans l’industrie, la mobilité en tant que service dans les transports et l’IA dans les bâtiments. Le projet produira des données distinctes pour examiner le potentiel technique et socio-économique de ces technologies, améliorer les récits de décarbonisation et garantir que la technologie numérique soutient la transition énergétique.
Objectif
By 2040, all major sectors of the European economy will be deeply digitalized. By then, the EU aims at reducing greenhouse gas emissions by 60% with respect to 1990 levels. Digitalization will affect decarbonization efforts because of its impacts on energy demand, employment, competitiveness, trade patterns and its distributional, behavioural and ethical implications. Yet, the policy debates around these two transformations are largely disjoint.
The aim of the 2D4D project is ensure that the digital revolution acts as an enabler – and not as a barrier – for decarbonization. The project quantifies the decarbonization implications of three disruptive digitalization technologies in hard-to-decarbonize sectors: (1) Additive Manufacturing in industry, (2) Mobility-as-a-Service in transportation, and (3) Artificial Intelligence in buildings.
The first objective of 2D4D is to generate a one-of-a-kind data collection to investigate the technical and socio-economic dynamics of these technologies, and how they may affect decarbonization narratives and scenarios. This will be achieved through several data collection methods, including desk research, surveys and expert elicitations.
The second objective of 2D4D is to include digitalization dynamics in decarbonization narratives and pathways. On the one hand, this entails enhancing decarbonization narratives (specifically, the Shared Socio-economic Pathways) to describe digitalization dynamics. On the other hand, it requires improving the representation of sector-specific digitalization dynamics in Integrated Assessment Models, one of the main tools available to generate decarbonization pathways.
The third objective of 2D4D is to identify no-regret, robust policy portfolios. These will be designed to ensure that digitalization unfolds in an inclusive, climate-beneficial way, and that decarbonization policies capitalize on digital technologies to support the energy transition.
Champ scientifique
- natural sciencescomputer and information sciencesartificial intelligence
- social sciencespolitical sciencespolitical transitionsrevolutions
- engineering and technologyelectrical engineering, electronic engineering, information engineeringelectronic engineeringdigital electronics
- social scienceseconomics and businessbusiness and managementemployment
- engineering and technologymechanical engineeringmanufacturing engineeringadditive manufacturing
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ERC-STG - Starting GrantInstitution d’accueil
25121 Brescia
Italie