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Area of Science:

  • Environmental Science
  • Technology and Innovation Studies
  • Global Governance

Background:

  • Global sustainability challenges increasingly rely on technological solutions.
  • Technology development and application occur within complex socio-political contexts.
  • Existing global governance trends significantly influence technology-led sustainability efforts.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To identify and analyze the evolving contexts of technology-led sustainability initiatives.
  • To highlight the roles of private actors, experimentalism, and informality.
  • To examine the paradoxes and limitations of technology in multi-stakeholder sustainability governance.

Main Methods:

  • Analysis of technology-centred projects, pilots, and plans.
  • Identification of three overlapping contexts: private actors, experimentalism, and informality.
  • Examination of the impact of these trends on participation, transparency, and power relations.

Main Results:

  • Technology-led initiatives in sustainability are shaped by private actors, experimentalism, and informality.
  • These trends paradoxically reduce actor engagement and transparency.
  • Existing power relations are often reinforced rather than transformed.

Conclusions:

  • Technology-led multi-stakeholder initiatives face significant limitations in addressing complex sustainability governance.
  • Failure to recognize and address these limits hinders effectiveness.
  • Pathways are needed to integrate ethical, social, and political considerations into technology deployment for sustainability.