Agenda

Digital transformation is accelerating across all sectors, while climate change, environmental degradation, e-waste generation and the energy footprint of digital technologies continue to grow. At the same time, digital innovation can enable significant emissions reductions and resilience gains—if it is designed, deployed and decommissioned responsibly and in ways that support circularity and sustainable consumption. The Green Digital Action partnership platform responds to these twin challenges by coordinating stakeholders to (i) improve measurement and transparency of ICT-related emissions and impacts, (ii) map targets and enablers (including finance and technology readiness), and (iii) support countries—especially in the Global South—in adopting green digital strategies and scaling climate-positive digital solutions.

Session objectives:

• Introduce the Green Digital Action, its governance approach and its initial 2026–2028 priorities, with ITU presenting the Hub’s core products and services (monitoring, cross-tracking targets/enablers, and country support for green digital strategies).
• Showcase concrete entry points for collaboration across standards, data, capacity building and financing pathways to help countries implement green digital action.
• Provide space for partner perspectives on how they will contribute to and benefit from the Hub (policy, finance, implementation, data, capacity building, or regional scaling).