The Fintech Action Plan (see now also Digital Finance Strategy) and the Sustainable Finance Strategy both represent important pillars of the current EU policy agenda. Nonetheless, the two areas have been treated as separate for a long time, while they present certain common features and great...

The COVID-19 pandemic holds at least seven lessons for the relationship between data-driven decision making, the use of artificial intelligence, and development. These are that (1) in a global crisis, the shifting value of data creates policy pitfalls; (2) predictions of crises and how they play...

Climate change and mitigation, carbon reduction -- Combined heat and power and district heating systems -- Control and optimization of renewable energy systems -- Energy and environmental assessment in buildings and cities -- Food safety and quality engineering -- Information technology and...