Navigating the new frontier: embracing green and digital transitions as drivers for resilience and innovation

Noha Essam Khamis and Anna Visvizi

Chapter 13 in The Twin Digital and Green Transition, 2026, pp 226-239 from Edward Elgar Publishing

Abstract: Both green and digital transitions are driven by political and economic imperatives, whereby ethical issues, most notably those related to the fundamental principle “not to harm”, are ingrained in them. Certainly, there is no consensus on that. In addition, the set of imperatives linked to green and digital transitions is a function of increased competition in global and local markets and pressure by increasingly aware stakeholders in favour of environmentally-friendly business conduct. The challenge is that while the green and digital (or “twin”) transitions may reinforce each other in many areas, they are not automatically aligned, and their positive impact on our societies is not always either direct or instant. For example, digital technologies have substantial environmental footprints that go against the targets of the green transition. Notably, a comprehensive and integrated approach is needed to reconcile the tensions inherent in either of these transitions. Accordingly, the objective of this chapter is to examine how the green and digital transitions can be successful in view of building the foundations for a resilient innovative future. To this end, by focusing on cities, against the backdrop of innovation policies adopted and implemented in selected countries and regions, including the United States, France, Argentina and others, this chapter outlines the ways in which those countries have addressed the challenges inherent in twin transition. It is argued that it is the quality and scale of respective policy responses that condition the possibility of making the green and digital transitions work in unison.

Keywords: Digital transition; Resilience; SDG; Green transition; Environmental footprint (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2026
ISBN: 9781035364275
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