Accelerating the energy and the green transition
The Green Transition is a transformational overhaul of the EU energy mix.
The challenge
Europe’s dependence on imported fossil fuels is environmentally detrimental and poses serious political and economic challenges. While the green transition can help mitigate these effects, it presents its own challenges of significantly increased electricity demand and the enhanced use of energy sources which put strain on energy grid systems.
Driving positive change
Digital transformation will be a key lever in delivering a successful green transition. Digital connectivity offers solutions to tackle both energy demand and supply challenges.
As new technologies unlock energy and resource efficiencies across sectors including transport (logistics), energy, agriculture, building and manufacturing, it is estimated that these solutions can cut global greenhouse gas emissions by up to 20% by 2030.
Relevant policy positions
Digital for Europe: collaboration, innovation, transformation
The pressing need to kick-start the COVID-19 recovery presents a once-in-a-generation opportunity to not just rebuild the economy but to ‘build back better’. If successful, the benefits for Europe, its citizens and their businesses could be transformative - economically, socially and environmentally.
This paper, commissioned by Vodafone as a companion to its recent series of Europe.Connected papers, explores a series of digital opportunities that will help deliver on the EU’s ambition for Europe’s Digital Future and the European Green Deal.
Open strategic sovereignty
Cloud technology, and increasingly edge technology, is a key strategic enabler for Europe’s digital and green transitions. This report, in partnership with Capgemini Invent, analyses the dynamics currently at play in the European market and makes policy recommendations on how best to achieve a trusted European edge-cloud ecosystem.
Progress towards the EU’s Digital Decade ambition
The European Union’s (EU) Digital Decade, which sets key targets on different digital areas until 2030, is the EU’s vision for Europe’s digital transformation and a critical element in Europe maintaining its global competitiveness in a rapidly changing world. Yet the proportion of businesses using cloud technology, in particular, must significantly increase in order to meet the European Commission’s Digital Decade 2030 goal. In this report, produced by Deloitte and commissioned by Vodafone, four key policy enablers are set out that could help enable the EU to realise its European Digital Decade goals.