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Evaluating the Carbon-Reducing Impacts of ICT
According to the EU Commission and many ICT industry leaders, the next step toward effectively incorporating information and communication technology (ICT) to enable a low carbon economy is developing systematic and practicable assessment methodologies and tools. Much has already been written about ICT’s potential to achieve greater carbon efficiency. According to the global SMART 2020 report, ICT could help cut greenhouse gases 15 % and save up to $946 billion dollars by 2020.
The lack of policy- and commercially-relevant measurements, however, is a barrier around the globe to actualizing the full potential of the energy-efficiency resource that smart use of ICT presents. It follows that the lack of adequate measures inhibits related commercial transactions. In short, globally, the necessary tools and measurement processes have been lacking, that would enable governments, industries and public entities to meaningfully consider and realize the environmental gains that will result from designing policies to encourage ICT use in processes and systems.
The report below, produced by GeSI, which BT is a member of contributes to realizing ICT’s promise through the establishment of a consistent methodology and roadmap for assessing ICT’s low carbon enablement capacity. The ICT Enablement Methodology proposed in this report provides immediate guidance on the process of identifying and quantifying the effects of implementing an ICT solution. With its focus on simplifying assessment via a generally-applicable approach, diverse members of the ICT industry, businesses and policy makers should find this methodology a practical guide for tackling the assessment process.
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The lack of policy- and commercially-relevant measurements, however, is a barrier around the globe to actualizing the full potential of the energy-efficiency resource that smart use of ICT presents. It follows that the lack of adequate measures inhibits related commercial transactions. In short, globally, the necessary tools and measurement processes have been lacking, that would enable governments, industries and public entities to meaningfully consider and realize the environmental gains that will result from designing policies to encourage ICT use in processes and systems.
The report below, produced by GeSI, which BT is a member of contributes to realizing ICT’s promise through the establishment of a consistent methodology and roadmap for assessing ICT’s low carbon enablement capacity. The ICT Enablement Methodology proposed in this report provides immediate guidance on the process of identifying and quantifying the effects of implementing an ICT solution. With its focus on simplifying assessment via a generally-applicable approach, diverse members of the ICT industry, businesses and policy makers should find this methodology a practical guide for tackling the assessment process.
Download report
.