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Helmut Martin-Jung
Digital associations, the EU, governments – they all agree on one thing: Digitization is indispensable if the climate goals are to be achieved. But is that actually true? Janna Axenbeck wanted to know exactly: In a study, the economist from the Center for European Economics in Darmstadt evaluated data from 16,000 German manufacturing companies in the period from 2009 to 2017. According to the International Energy Agency, this branch of industry is responsible for 26 percent of global CO₂ emissions and 38 percent of energy consumption.