sustainability
-
News these days are abuzz with takes on Europe’s need and ambitions around digital sovereignty. But one thing often missing, if not entirely omitted in these debates: environmental sustainability. Gaël Duez and I recorded the latest Green IO podcast episode in September and even then, we couldn’t not talk about Digital Sovereignty and how political
-
Time to say goodbye to Foxy. Mozilla, Open Source, and Community are changing. And yes, it’s about more than a retiring mascot. 🦊 I recently spent 5 days in Barcelona, mostly in the company of former Mozillians. Alumni networks can take on a lot of shapes and forms, and none of us knew what this
-
Reading the 2025 environmental progress reports from tech companies like Alibaba, Google, Meta, or Microsoft, it feels as if climate data is increasingly treated like financial data. Emissions are growing, rather than being mitigated. The marketing narratives in these progress reports have always been flashy, emphasising wins and progress however small they may be in
-
“Wer killt den Klimaschutz?” fragte mich Zsolt Wilhelm vom Der Standard in 3.000m Höhe auf der Zugspitze. Meine Antwort: der falsche Kompromiss. Wenn in der Debatte um den Klimaschutz, die “radikalsten” Stimmen diejenigen sind, die nichts anderes tun, als den globalen Minimalkonsens der Klimawissenschaft für die Allgemeinheit zu übersetzen, dann greift jeder vermeintliche Kompromiss zwangsläufig
-
In the margins of the AI Action Summit in Paris (February 2025), I had the pleasure of joining an invite-only transatlantic funders meeting, where some 50 people discussed current investment and philantropic strategies and opportunities to better collaborate. The candid atmosphere was genuinely motivating and a slate of new initiatives were launched and/or announced in
-
Tech companies and their climate pledges. The 2024 AI edition. I’ve been closely following the climate commitments and reduction targets by the tech sector for years now—I was even cautiously optimistic for a brief moment last year. Not now. The latest environmental reports from Alibaba, Google, Microsoft and co. are disconcerting. Meta hasn’t even released
-
Auf allen Podcast-Streaming-Plattformen: Mein Interview im Spiegel-Klimabericht. Das Thema: der ökologische Fußabdruck von Tech-Unternehmen, die Glaubwürdigkeit von Klimazielen und welche Fragen wir als Konsument:innen stellen können und sollten: Podcast. Ich freue mich über Feedback und Kommentare. 💚
-
50+ parliamentarians from across Europe. 2 days in Helsinki. It was intense and thought-provoking and it left me incredibly energised and buzzing with ideas. Thank you to the Open European Dialogue for organising and allowing me to share my expertise on the intersection of sustainability and digital technologies. It was a packed programme exploring a
-
Tech companies share their greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions more transparently now, but does this translate into action? Do they, in fact, reduce their emissions and improve their environmental impact. While things are moving, change isn’t fast enough. Here’s the tl;dr of what I found in the 2022 data: 2022 amount of million mtCO2e | change
Cathleen Berger 