Conference of the Parties: COP26 An image of a globe in blue, white and green created from swirly patterns on the left and the symbols COP26 in large block letters to the right. The COP is in blue and the 26 in green, both matching the colours used in the globe ("COP 26 Key Outcomes: Why Is This Important for Education Unionists?", 2021).  Digital Technologies and climate The Climate Change Conference of 2021 (COP26) in Glasgow, Scotland brought together many great thinkers in the world to discuss many critical components of the climate crisis. One such area of discussion, and action, is that of role of digital technologies.  Digital technologies, as defined on a previous page of the blog, has the potential (in most cases, yet unproven) to deliver sustained solutions to the climate crisis. However, it is also true that there are negative environmental and climate impacts due to digital tech and information systems overall.  The United Nations (UN) climate change events Yo...

The Intersection of Digital Technology and the Climate Change Definitions: Digital Technology: The use of digital systems, tools and devices (computers, software applications, smartphones, data logging tools etc) to gather, store, process and transmit information in an electronic format (Cohn, 2024). Image showing a variety of digital technologies interconnected in the shape of a sphere, representing the earth. At the centre is a computer and surrounding this are various tablets, sensors and other tools. Included are some non-digital forms (books, newspapers) representing the transition we are still in (2024).  Climate Change:  Long term shifts in the temperature and weather patterns due either to natural causes or as a result of anthropogenic (human) activity (United Nations, n.d.). Image illustrating the transition from fossil fuel dependency on the right. There the image shows have a globe in red with forest fires, factories sending out smoke and a thermometer getting hott...