Green ICT: The rationale for a focus on curbing greenhouse gas emissions

Author

Despins, Charles ; Arnaud, Bill St ; Labelle, Richard ; Chériet, Mohamed

Author_Institution

Prompt Inc., Montreal, QC, Canada

fYear

2010

fDate

21-23 Oct. 2010

Firstpage

1

Lastpage

6

Abstract

Green Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) have the potential to significantly curb greenhouse gas emissions worldwide. This paper provides a rationale for focusing ICT research and development efforts on curbing GHG emissions as opposed to only targeting energy efficiency goals. ICT´s potential as a GHG emission reduction agent is described as are recent developments with respect to the creation of international standards for quantifying these ICT GHG emission reductions.

Keywords

climate mitigation; greenhouses; GHG emission reduction agent; Green Information and Communications Technologies; ICT GHG emission reductions; ICT research; development efforts; energy efficiency goals; green ICT; greenhouse gas emissions; international standards; Carbon; Carbon dioxide; Energy efficiency; Green products; Industries; Meteorology; Standards; green; greenhouse gas emissions; information and communication technologies; standards;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Wireless Communications and Signal Processing (WCSP), 2010 International Conference on

Conference_Location

Suzhou

Print_ISBN

978-1-4244-7556-8

Electronic_ISBN

978-1-4244-7554-4

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/WCSP.2010.5633631

Filename

5633631