As Davos 2022 kicks off Sam sits down with author, mentor and guru; writer and storyteller; champion of a just society and an economy that serves us all; Satya Das. Working with colleagues at the Center of Excellence on Human-centered Digital Economy, he developed a new way to approach our planetary crises. They call it their 6-D vision: Disarmament, Development, and Dignity, as a framework leading to Decarbonization, Decentralization, and Digitalization. The Digital Economist looks at the potential of this approach in meeting the climate challenge, and argue that a 6-D lens enables a more robust and global understanding of humankind’s mutual challenge in meeting the climate crisis.  

The Digital Economist’s 6-D lens offers a means to align the similar, and often overlapping, goals of climate activists, The Paris Agreement, The Glasgow Climate Pact, and the business and investment communities as well as the climate pathways under the 2019 Marrakesh Partnership, which were updated in 2021 to further strengthen just transition, gender-responsiveness, resilience and circular economy. This alignment would ideally lead to coordinated implementation of inclusive climate resilience, particularly among the most vulnerable. It also offers the means to bolster the implementation of commitments under the overlapping vectors of these covenants, joining efforts to put the pledges into action.  

Their key recommendations: Adopt the 6-D approach to enhance the implementation of the Glasgow Climate Pact Use the mechanisms presented by The Digital Economist — the global carbon levy, the 6-D lens and fiscal measures to swerve from militarism to development — to meet and exceed the adaptation and mitigation funding evoked in the Paris Agreement and reinforced in the Glasgow Climate Pact

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