Europe must steer AI and digitalisation to support its green transition

AI policy and Europe’s green transition

The reports, “Navigating Europe’s twin transition — opportunities and challenges of digitalisation in the green transition” and “Artificial intelligence and sustainable consumption in Europe”, examine how digitalisation affects climate policy, resource efficiency and economic resilience. Environmental potential of AI According to the EEA, digital technologies can improve environmental monitoring and data analysis. They can also increase efficien…

Europe must steer AI and digitalisation to support its green transition

Press releasePublished 05 May 2026 As artificial intelligence rapidly reshapes Europe’s economy, it will either accelerate our green ambitions or undermine them. Two new European Environment Agency (EEA) briefings explore how deliberate policy steering can ensure a double dividend and how the trade-offs in deploying these technologies can be navigated at a time when environmental […]