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

[Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro]

On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 10:25 AM, michael gurstein <gurstein at gmail.com>wrote:

> 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.
>
>
I think this is an excellent conversation to have and environmentally
friendly designs are relevant and necessary.

> 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
>
> Disclaimers: My views alone.  100% post-consumer electrons used in this
> email.
>
>
>
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