GeSI promotes ICT climate change solution in Barcelona

December 03,2009

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ITU and OECD in partnership with GeSI held a side-event on “Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) and Climate Change” where top decision-makers from governments, international organisations and industry shared their views and solutions on how ICTs can help to address climate change.

The side event provided information on how developed and developing countries can use ICTs to effectively combat global warming and how the innovative use of ICTs and the Internet could reduce potential CO2 emissions by 15% in 2020, for example by replacing travel through the use of teleconferencing, replacing atoms with bits (electronic publications of documents, books, DVDs), smart buildings and electricity grids, intelligent transport systems, etc.

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ITU newslog entry on "ITU promotes ICT climate change solution in Barcelona"

Agenda "ICTs and Climate Change"
Thursday, 5 November 2009, 18:00 - 19:30 hours
	Welcoming Remarks Mr. Malcolm Johnson, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU (Speech)
	Opening Remarks Mr. Graham Vickery, Head of the Information Economy Group, OECD Mr. Luis Neves, Chairman, Global e-Sustainability Initiative
	Panel Discussion Moderator: Mr. Toby Johnson, Senior Communications Officer, ITU Mr. Daniel Torres, Sustainable development advisor to Secretary of State Francisco Ros Perán, Ministry of Industry, Tourism and Trade; Director, National Observatory for Telecommunications and the Information Society (Spain) Mr. Atsushi Taketani, Director, Commerce and Information Policy Bureau, Ministry of Economy, Trade and Industry (Japan) (Presentation) H.E. Mr. Mauricio Montalvo, Ambassador, Permanent Mission of Ecuador to the United Nations Office at Geneva Mr. Enrique Ramos, Deputy Vice President, Metering solutions, Abengoa-Telvent Mr. Yoh Somemura, Senior Research Engineer, NTT Energy and Environment Systems Laboratories Mr. David Eurin, Head of Energy Consulting, Analysys Mason Ms. Monique Meche, Director, Environment Policy and Sustainability, Cisco Mr. Kevin Grose, Coordinator, Information Services Climate Change Secretariat, UNFCCC
	Concluding Remarks Mr. Graham Vickery, Head of the Information Economy Group, OECD Mr. Luis Neves, Chairman, Global e-Sustainability Initiative Mr. Malcolm Johnson, Director, Telecommunication Standardization Bureau, ITU
	Reception sponsored by GeSI and Telefonica.

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