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UN telecom agency examining how to slash ICT sector emmissions
New York, Jul 12 (PTI) With the information and communication technology (I.C.T.) sector accounting for 2 to 3 percent of global greenhouse gas emmissions, the U.N. telecom agency is examining how to slash its carbon footprint.
Since the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in late 1997, the number of I.C.T. users has tripled globally, and the sectorreleases some 2 to 3 percent of all emissions, the U.N.
International Telecommunication Union (I.T.U.) said Saturday.
But it stressed that these technologies are also part of the solution to climate change, and could help curb emissions by anywhere between 15 and 40 percent, depending on themethodologies used to come up with the estimates.
The agency's newly-created Focus Group, which seeks to wrap up its work plan by next April, will create internally agreed standards to assess the effect of the technologies onthe environment.
"I.C.T.s are a contributor to global warming, but more importantly they are the key to monitoring and mitigating itseffects," said the agency's Secretary-General Hamadoun Toure.
Since the Kyoto Protocol was adopted in late 1997, the number of I.C.T. users has tripled globally, and the sectorreleases some 2 to 3 percent of all emissions, the U.N.
International Telecommunication Union (I.T.U.) said Saturday.
But it stressed that these technologies are also part of the solution to climate change, and could help curb emissions by anywhere between 15 and 40 percent, depending on themethodologies used to come up with the estimates.
The agency's newly-created Focus Group, which seeks to wrap up its work plan by next April, will create internally agreed standards to assess the effect of the technologies onthe environment.
"I.C.T.s are a contributor to global warming, but more importantly they are the key to monitoring and mitigating itseffects," said the agency's Secretary-General Hamadoun Toure.
