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15.12.2020

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The EuropeanCommission needs to enter the ?digital decade?: it?s about time that itcreates a monitoring and benchmarking tool to enable tracking progresstowards the delivery on the EU Green Deal objectives, writes ChristianSchaible.

How does decisionmakers? mantra of ?entering the digital age? and ?artificialintelligence? fit in with the lamentable reality of lack of access tobasic environmental performance information on EU?s biggest industrialactivities?

In its State of the Union Speech, European Commission President Vonder Leyen declared that the EU will enter the ?digital decade?, stressedthe importance of ?evidence-based? decision-making, insisting on the role of ?smart technologies like artificial intelligence?, ?digital technologies to build a healthier, greener society?, and ?free flow of (industrial) data?. Most importantly, she highlighted that ?industrialdata will quadruple in next 5 years [?] and is worth its weight in goldwhen it comes to developing new products and services.? Yet, she also concluded that ?in reality 80% of industrial data is collected and never used. This is pure waste?.

Full text available at https://meta.eeb.org/2020/10/22/industrial-pollution-its-time-to-enter-the-digital-age/.

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