The research aims to determine the role of the digital economy in reducing carbon dioxide emissions as an approximate measure for achieving sustainable development in some Arab countries, as well as identifying the difficulties that some Arab countries face in implementing or spreading the digital economy in these countries. This paper used panel data for 13 Arab countries for the time period 2005 to 2019 to perform a fixed effects regression. The basic regression results showed that the

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... g of the digital economy is statistically negative and significant at the 1% level, which indicates an inverted Ushaped relationship between CO2 emissions and the digital economy (inversion point ln digital=22.18 which is equivalent to $4291919905 million representing digital services exports). For a sample of Arab countries, 13 countries. We conclude from previous studies that among the most important difficulties facing some Arab countries, especially Egypt, are the high costs of the digitization process from the use of mobile phones, the high costs of using the Internet, the instability and stability of the Internet service for long periods and its lack of access to many areas of the countryside, especially in the poorest villages, despite Among the government's efforts in this field, the culture of using digitization has not spread in many areas due to the feeling of many individuals insecure, especially in financial operations.