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SMART 2020

Enabling the low carbon society through information and communication technologies

Whether ICT is used to drive behaviour change or efficiency, it will be a crucial enabling force behind the transition to a viable society that breaks our reliance on fossil fuels. Molly Webb and industry guests are the authors of the blog. Molly co-authored the SMART 2020 report and directs The Climate Group's work on ICT and climate change.

  • Energy crisis in Britain

    Date
    17 August 2009

    Today's UK Renewable Energy Strategy says this about the power grid which is a key enabler of renewable electricity, heat and transport energy, from small to large scale.

    UK

  • Will renewable targets be possible without smart grid?

    Date
    15 July 2009

    Today's UK Renewable Energy Strategy says this about the power grid which is a key enabler of renewable electricity, heat and transport energy, from small to large scale.

    CBRE smarter buildings

  • Seoul CUD conference: urban climate change solutions

    Date
    21 May 2009

    Seoul is welcoming 200 delegates from 24 countries to the Connected Urban Develoment conference hosted by Cisco this week.

    Conference of the Reducers

  • Efficiency and the holy grail

    Date
    15 May 2009

    ACEEE put out another great report this week in the general area of ICT and climate change, but this time focusing specifically on semiconductors.

    ICT

  • Orange juice, newspapers and google search

    Date
    12 May 2009

    Urs Holzle has updated google's previous post on the impact of their search today under the title "Energy and the Internet", comparing it to other daily consumables and activities.

    Newspaper stack

  • Business for Environment

    Date
    28 April 2009

    The B4E summit last week featured a great line up of business leaders, NGOs and UN representatives to highlight the opportunities for business to tackle climate change.

    Green Medal Award

  • EV hype needs the smart grid

    Date
    16 April 2009

    We need a 'smart' grid if we hope to get the kind of solutions in electric vehicles that we've seen hyped over the last month or so.

    India night EVs

  • Reality check: G20

    Date
    31 March 2009

    The last paragraph of the leaked G20 draft communique mentions the challenge of climate change.

    Information and Communication Technologies

  • Obama, technology and innovation

    Date
    05 March 2009

    Julius Genachowski is Obama's new chair of the Federal Communications Commission (FCC)

    Obama

  • Grid 2.0: When your refrigerator will talk to your car...

    Date
    25 February 2009

    ... will they have anything to say? It is unlikely that we'll ever think of our appliances as talkative, but basic sensors and communications on the energy system is likely to allow balancing of load from a host of distributed generation and storage units, such as solar panels and plug in electric vehicles.

    India night lights

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The Clean Revolution

In this blog, Jim Walker, International Programmes and Strategy Director, keeps everyone updated on our three-year Clean Revolution Campaign.

  • US Climate Policy

    The Climate Group’s Head of US Policy, Evan Juska, and guests analyze the latest US climate policy developments and trends. 

  • SMART 2020

    Head of Smart Technologies, Molly Webb writes this SMART 2020 blog on how ICT is a crucial enabling force behind the transition to a viable society that will break our reliance on fossil fuels. 

  • Sustainable Mobility

    From breaking technology news to global policy changes, our bloggers explore the accelerating Clean Revolution in transport. 

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