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

[Adam Peake]

How is this Internet Governance rather than, say, ICT4D or just ICT policy.

Genuine question :-)

Thanks,

Adam




On Mon, Jan 7, 2013 at 11:37 AM, Salanieta T. Tamanikaiwaimaro
<salanieta.tamanikaiwaimaro at gmail.com> wrote:
>
>
> 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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