Internet claims role in fighting global warming

Companies are starting to capitalise on reducing travel costs as well as CO2 emissions by using Information and Communication Technologies (ICT).

In early 2006, a number of ICT companies including HP, Intel and Sun Microsystems set up the GeSI EU ICT Sustainability Forum, in order to look into how the ICT sector can contribute to sustainability. At a Conference jointly organised by the Commission and the Forum entitled “Applying ICT-based solutions to energy efficiency challenges “, industry actors and academics discussed the role that ICT can play in cutting down on greenhouse-gas emissions.
Issues debated in the 31 January 2007 conference included:
Best-practice examples of how ICT solutions can contribute to solving the challenges of energy-efficiency goals;
intelligent energy;
sustainability in a global context;
public procurement and energy efficiency;
the economic advantages of going green, and;
consumer education.

ETNO – the European Telecommunication Network Operators’ organisation – elaborated, in close co-operation with WWF, a roadmap called “Saving the planet @ the speed of light “. Both partners stress the importance of their novel industry-NGO alliance. They say that they share a number of common goals, namely:

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