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Eco-Digital Products and Services: Towards New EU Sustainability Rights?

Celeste, Edoardo orcid logoORCID: 0000-0003-1984-4142 and Alba Perez, Victorio (2025) Eco-Digital Products and Services: Towards New EU Sustainability Rights? In: Digital Sovereignty and the Green Transition EU Challenges in Times of War and Energy Crisis. Bloomsbury Publishing, Oxford, pp. 213-230. ISBN 9781509983629

Abstract
Within this context and given the focus of the recently adopted Declaration on Digital Rights and Principles on digital sustainability, the present chapter examines whether and to what extent this document is shaping or recognising new sustainability rights in the digital environment. Section II analyses the content of Chapter VI of the Declaration, focusing on its legislative history and subsequent amendments. We will argue that Chapter VI has not recognized a new right to a healthy environment in the digital society, but rather enshrines a principle of sustainable digital products and services. The novelty of this principle is then examined in Section III, which looks in more detail at EU and Member States law as well as at existing digital bills of rights. The chapter will posit that the uniqueness of Chapter VI lies in making explicit the principle of sustainable products and services through an operation of normative retrofitting that reconstructs a guiding principle of already existing EU and Member State regulatory and policy strategies. Finally, Section IV contextualises Chapter VI within the EU digital and environmental policy framework, questioning the feasibility of its ambitions starting from the assumption that even a virtuous digitalisation may negatively affect the environment. We will refer to theories of digital sobriety and degrowth, ultimately arguing that the reconciliation between the twin transitions in the Declaration is unavoidably only partial.
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Item Type:Book Section
Refereed:Yes
Subjects:Social Sciences > International relations
Social Sciences > Law
DCU Faculties and Centres:DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science
DCU Faculties and Schools > Faculty of Humanities and Social Science > School of Law and Government
Publisher:Bloomsbury Publishing
Official URL:https://www.bloomsbury.com/uk/digital-sovereignty-...
Copyright Information:Authors
ID Code:31625
Deposited On:13 Oct 2025 09:55 by Vidatum Academic . Last Modified 13 Oct 2025 09:55
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