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GeSI - ICT Sustainability through Innovation

GeSI's Activity Report for 2009 highlights our work over the past year as well as identifies the complexity around the UNFCCC COP-15 meeting in Copenhagen in December 2009.

Climate Change

Developing methodology and standards to measure and cut the carbon footprint of the ICT sector and other industries through innovative technology

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Supply Chain

To promote good conduct and develop or improve tools, management practices, processes or systems to assist each participant and their supply chain in dealing with CR supply chain risks

Energy Efficiency

To develop common standards across ICT companies which will facilitate measuring greenhouse gas emissions more efficiently. The EE-IOCG (energy efficiency Inter-operators coalition group) leads this initiative within GeSI

e-Waste

To promote take-back and create tools to ensure electrical and electronic equipment is disposed of responsibly at end-of-life, and materials are reused or recycled wherever possible

Public Policy

To engage with policymakers and other stakeholders to promote the contribution ICT can make to sustainability

Project in Focus

SEESGEN - ICT

Supporting Energy Efficiency in Smart GENeration grids through ICT

GeSI's SMART 2020 Report highlighted at World Economic Forum in Davos

February 01, 2010

"information technology sectors could drive a reduction of up to 15% of global emissions, or more than five times the footprint of the sector itself, and create new business lines worth hundreds of billions of dollars in the process"

The Need For a SMART Alliance
December 08, 2009

COP-15, ITU-WIPO Side Event, "The effective use of ICTs and the IP system for mitigating climate change"
December 03, 2009

GeSI promotes ICT climate change solution in Barcelona
December 03, 2009


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	Electronics - Tool for Accountable Supply Chains A web based system for Information and Communications Technology (ICT) companies to manage corporate responsibility throughout their supply chains in an efficient manner. Launched by GeSI and the EICC at the end of 2007, it already has more than 300 subscribers. E-TASC contains a tool to help members conduct an initial risk assessment of suppliers before proceeding to the more in-depth self-assessment. It is based on high-level information about the type of supplier, activity and country of operation Read more...

	GeSI Members

	Luis Neves, GeSI Chair, comments in Climate Action Book 2009-2010
	Responding to the new challenge of ICT-driven sustainability Climate Action Book (PDF 2.4 MB)

	Luis Neves, GeSI Chair, presents SMART 2020 reports at ACER's CSR Forum in Taiwan
	ICT's and Climate Change, the need for a SMART Alliance (PDF, 1.2Mb)

Supporting Organisations

www.itu.int

www.unep.org

Upcoming Events

Mobile World Congress \| Global Conference for Mobile Technology
February 15, 2010
High Level Event on ICT for Energy Efficiency 2010
February 23, 2010
CeBIT
March 2, 2010
Carbon Expo 2010
May 26, 2010
Carbon Expo 2010
May 26, 2010
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Electronics - Tool for Accountable Supply Chains