Isramart : ICT has the potential to reduce carbon emissions by 25%

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ICT-based technologies, if used intensively, have the potential to reduce carbon emissions by 25% in the G20 countries, compared with 2006 baseline emissions.

According to a new report from IDC and its industry partners, there are a number of areas where information and communications-based technologies (ICT) can bring immediate benefit in reducing carbon emissions.

Other major findings of the report were that significant reductions can be made across other sectors such as energy generation and distribution, buildings, transport, and industry, and that by integrating renewable energy into energy distribution using smart grids, ICT-enabled smart building systems, ICT-optimised supply chains, and variable motor controls in industrial machinery are the leading technologies for reducing emissions in each of the sectors surveyed.

These headlines from the report were released before it is presented in full to the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen.

Roberta Bigliani, research director at IDC Energy Insights, said of the results “ICT-based technologies have considerable potential to reduce carbon emissions. The advantage of the technologies we have identified is that they are already reasonably mature, if not widely implemented. Given that carbon emissions reductions made quickly have more impact on global warming than those that take longer to implement, we recommend that governments and industry immediately evaluate and implement these technologies.”