Dirk Messner, German Environment Agency (UBA)
Maria-Francesca Spatolisano, Office of the UN Envoy on Technology
Achim Steiner, UNDP
Inger Anderson, UNEP

Discussion on the Report “A Digital Planet for Sustainability”
and Core Priorities of the Acceleration Plan
Prof. Yoshua Bengio, Université de Montréal

Key results of the report including outline of Acceleration Plan
and Mentimeter on key findings of the report
Stephanie Taylor, UNDP
Jason Jabbour, UNEP
David Jensen, UNEP

1. Why are the digital transformation and environmental sustainability agendas not yet unified? What are the key barriers and enabling conditions?
2. Does the report propose a vision, values and priorities that would bring these agendas together? Do any other priority actions come to mind?
3. How can the priorities of the report be organized into a roadmap, set of achievable goals and operational strategy?
Dave Thau, WWF
Rob Price, Alchemmy
Dr. Karen Bakker, University of British Columbia
Philip Thigo, Ministry of Environment and Forestry Kenya
Geoffrey Boulton, ISC

Dirk Messner, German Environment Agency (UBA)

1. What are key success factors and incentives for operationalizing the CODES vision and values?
2. What are the important next steps needed to build on the day one discussion?
3. What change management strategy do you recommend for CODES to have measurable global impact? What are lessons learned from other global change processes?
Yu Ping Chan, Office of the United Nations’ Envoy on Technology
Katherine A. Foster, Office of the United Nations’ Envoy on Technology
Asim Hussain, Green Software Foundation
Carsten Polenz,, SAP
Vanessa Gray, Emergency Telecommunications and Environment Division at ITU

Input from two perspectives on the Conference Declaration
David Jensen, UNEP
Dirk Messner, German Environment Agency (UBA)

Mentimeter on priorities within the Acceleration Plan and
blind spots that emerged in the Working Groups
David Jensen, UNEP

Final closing remarks on the conference and its results
Robert Opp, UNDP