RT Report
T1 Digital Public Infrastructure for Environmental Sustainability
A1 United Nations Environment Programme, 
K1 environmental data
K1 environmental monitoring
K1 environmental information
K1 technological innovation
K1 information infrastructure
PB United Nations Environment Programme
YR 2024
FD 2024-03
LK https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/45181
UL https://wedocs.unep.org/handle/20.500.11822/45181
NO The report examines common information challenges stakeholders face when making decisions related to environmental sustainability and explores the role that Digital Public Infrastructure (DPI) can play as a key part of the solution. To tackle the interconnected triple environmental planetary crises, it is critical to have accessible, timely, credible, and insightful information that can support environmental sustainability decision-making. Developing interconnected data exchange mechanisms has become a necessity, but sole reliance on private solutions will likely fail to comprehensively address the challenges and may result in further data fragmentation. A blend of private and public solutions is essential. However, there is currently a notable gap in DPI to facilitate the flow of environmental sustainability information to different stakeholders. This report analyses three cases related to the agri-food sector and identifies six categories of technology innovations (TIs) that could help tackle information challenges: Open data discovery for environmental sustainability; Privacy enhancing technologies to enable flow of environmental sustainability information; Data markets for environmental sustainability-related data; Computational law and data integration of green and circular economy policy measures; Using Large Language Models to ‘speak’ with green and circular economy policy; Tools and techniques for human-centred artificial intelligence in environmental sustainability decision-making
DS UN Environment Document Repository
RD Sep 17, 2026