DECIDE - Digital Enabling of Circularity, Innovation, Development and Environment (UNEP)
At a glance
- Project leader : Prof. Dr. Kurt Stockinger
- Project team : Prof. Dr. Martin Braschler, Yaxuan Chen, Prof. Dr. Simon Evenett, Angus Hamilton, Rowan Palmer, Ana Fernandez Vergara, Prof. Dr. Ce Zhang
- Project budget : USD 70'000
- Project status : completed
- Funding partner : EU and other international programmes
- Project partner : United Nations Environment Programme (UN Environment), Universität St. Gallen, Eidgenössische Technische Hochschule Zürich ETH
- Contact person : Kurt Stockinger
Description
The goal of this project is to lay the technological foundations for empowering various stakeholders to make fact-based decisions to achieve sustainable consumption and production. In particular, we will evaluate how various data science, machine learning and artificial intelligence methods can be used to extract and analyze data about the environment, supply chains and economic policy monitoring, in an integrated manner.
The challenges include combining data sets from these three different areas with incomplete and often heterogenous information and thus be able to answer specific green economy policy questions such as “What government intervention in the market are relevant to the environmental performance of the 'X' supply chain?” or “Which value chains can be connected with deforestation in the Amazon and who can make a difference?”