Data for the Environment: How the European Union’s Data Strategy Can Facilitate the European Green Transition

This article explores the dual relationship between data and the environment in the European Union law context and argues how the potential synergies between them can be harnessed through EU data regulation. Within this framework, the article discusses the EU’s evolving approach to data and analyses to what extent the current European data strategy contributes to the EU’s green transition. In its analyses, the author refers to the Common European Data Spaces, Data Governance Act, Data Act, and Open Data Directive as the main pillars of the strategy and examines whether these recent instruments on data provide an effective framework to leverage the power of data for the European green transition.