[governance] Toward Reducing the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of the Internet and Telecommunications

[michael gurstein]

Yes, and thanks to everyone (even Riaz with his tongure firmly in his
cheek...

This subject seems to me to be an ideal one for the IGF where some quite
positive contributions could be made by including the range of stakeholders
and including folks from the various policy worlds who may not have, as yet,
been included in this most urgent conversation. A good place for the private
sector to showcase it's responsible actions and a useful way to get some
environment researchers in touch with folks on the ICT policy shop floor so
that environmental concerns become one of the issue areas to be addressed
when ICT policy issues are being discussed.

M

-----Original Message-----
From: John Curran [mailto:jcurran at istaff.org] 
Sent: Sunday, January 06, 2013 1:03 PM
To: michael gurstein
Cc: governance at lists.igcaucus.org
Subject: Re: [governance] Toward Reducing the Greenhouse Gas Emissions of
the Internet and Telecommunications

On Jan 6, 2013, at 3:18 PM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com> wrote:

> According to recent calculations the Internet is the source of some 2% 
> of global greenhouse gas emissions (and increasing quickly). Much of 
> this comes from the vast server farms that major Internet corporations 
> (eg. Google, Amazon etc.) have been establishing around the world. 
> http://www.sciencedaily.com/releases/2013/01/130102140452.htm
> 
> Perhaps a topic for discussion at the next IGF?

I would recommend reading Greenpeace's study in this area for an
understanding of the efforts currently being made by some of the leading
industry players in this space: 

http://www.greenpeace.org/international/en/publications/Campaign-reports/Cli
mate-Reports/How-Clean-is-Your-Cloud/

There is significant attention to this problem in the Internet data center
industry, even to the point of sharing of best practices and increasing
level of visibility into the power utilization, sourcing, and efficiency of
these facilities.  It would be interesting to hear from those involved in
this space regarding what, if anything, could be done to allow further
improvements in efficiency and emissions.

FYI,
/John

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