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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.

  • Small actions matter - but so does company innovation

    Date
    06 August 2008

    In today's NY Times article, An Energy Diet for Power-Hungry Household PCs, Gartner IT analysts are quoted as saying that "40 percent of all carbon dioxide emissions resulting from information technology and telecommunications are attributable to PCs".

    UK power station

  • Government IT goes Green

    Date
    23 July 2008

    Last week the UK Government announced that they are starting to look at going IT green.

    green leaves

  • Smart grid prospects in India?

    Date
    18 July 2008

    Rabirashmi Abasan in Kolkata became the first housing project in India where residents have the option of giving back power - generated in their rooftop solar photovoltaic panels - to the grid of the power utilities

    India

  • ITU tackles climate change

    Date
    14 July 2008

    Imagine that the lighting, buildings, waste and transport systems could talk to each other in a city. Would allowing these systems to interact make the city more efficient? How would this be made possible?

    Sample LED lights

  • Attitudes to collaborative technologies

    Date
    08 July 2008

    Telstra supported a great report by Climate Risk last year on the opportunities for telecoms companies to reduce emissions. They found that overall, ICT could reduce Australia's emissions by 5%.

    Australia

  • Small steps, big changes

    Date
    07 July 2008

    Message 1: Change your lightbulbs. Recycle. Don't drive a gas guzzler. Don't go on too many holidays.

    solar wind

  • Google maps meets smart meters

    Date
    04 July 2008

    Simon Harrison of Engage consulting in the UK is putting smart meters around the world on the map.

    BT Group smart meter

  • SMART 2020: The way forward

    Date
    03 July 2008

    I'm hosting a webinar today on the findings of SMART 2020, a report looking at how ICT can enable a low-carbon economy.

    Smart city ICT

  • The SMART 2020 transformation

    Date
    30 June 2008

    What do data centres, mobile phones or the internet have to do with climate change?

    ICT

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