- Emerging frontier technologies have dramatically boosted the ways in which we can monitor the health of our planet. If we can leverage this information effectively, we will be able to assess and predict risks, increase transparency and accountability in the management of natural resources, inform markets and consumer choice and guide the political action required to counter the environmental risks and crises; and ultimately stand a better chance of achieving the Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs). For this vision to become a reality, stakeholders must collaborate to build and deploy a global digital ecosystem combining data, infrastructure, analytics, and insights. This Foresight Brief shows how such a global digital ecosystem can be achieved – as well as what we risk despite the 10-year span still available to achieve the SDGs.
- While this concept is an ambitious one, humanity has achieved similar fantastic visions. For example, the Large Hadron Collider at CERN (estimated to cost USD 1 billion per year) and the Human Genome Project (estimated at USD 200 million per year). These impressive examples of international cooperation at-scale have generated global public goods which continue to propel human knowledge and well-being. Similar cooperation is now needed to build a digital ecosystem for our planet. Stakeholders in all domains should unite in building a common vision for a digital ecosystem of data, infrastructure, algorithms and insights to provide actionable evidence on our collective progress towards sustainable development.
Programa das Nações Unidas para o Meio Ambiente
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