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Green Information & Communication Technologies To Reduce Global Warming

ITU Symposium onICTs and Climate ChangeQuito, Ecuador Session 2: Mitigation 1a, July 8th 2009Jacques Mc Neill, Prompt, Montreal, Canada

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• Partnership for Research On Microelectronics, Photonics and Telecommunications;

• A Montreal-based Industry-University consortium in the ICT sector;

• Since 2003, 50 partnerships with 11 universities and 40 industry partners, valued at more than $30M in cash contributions to universities.

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Growth of Internet and ICT is (too) hot

•Shortcomings of present Internet

•Need IP-V6, NGI, Internet-2, NGN, etc.

•CANARIE, promoter of Canada’s advanced communications infrastructure is preaching ICT as solution to reduce climate change threat.

Sources: Ericsson Canada, Green@ICT (ITU), CANARIE

The Challenge:• ICT industry CO2 emissions (3%), equivalent to aviation industry;• ICT is 5th largest industry in power consumption (8-9%), 2x each 5 years;Each of us must go from 26 tons/person to 2 tons in 2050. How?

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Why a Green ICT?

The Opportunity: • ICT may achieve up to 90% of Kyoto targets (ITU, 2008);• ICT has potential to decrease overall GHG by 15% and save global;

industry $US 800 billion in annual energy costs by 2020;• Carbon economy growing by 58% to $92B, $500B by 2050.

Sources: ITU Conference 2008, Smart 2020, Climate Check, WWF Canada, June 2008

ICT in Canada: • Represents 1 megatonne of GHG (<1%)

• By better use, GHG emissions could be reduced by 20 megatonnes per year:- 3.2 M cars off the road- 7% of Canada’s annual Kyoto obligation.

• Estimated benefits: $7.5B-$12.9B.

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Prompt’s Green ICT Vision

• A distributed Canadian Initiative devoted to creation and commercialization of ICT technologies that reduce GHG emissions

• Involve universities, industries, governments and consumers in Green activities:

1. Inform stakeholders;2. Stimulate R&D;3. Deploy infrastructure;4. Commercialize.

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1. Inform Industry & Governments

• Green ICT workshops in Palo Alto and Montreal;

• Canada California Strategic Innovation Partnership Summit;

• Canadian Green ICT Strategic Committee.

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• UCSD, UBC and Prompt to reduce campus GHG emissions & develop a green cyber-infrastructure:• Typical US university produces up to 500,000 metric tons per year,

60% from its cyber-infrastructure and ICT;• R&D on ISO 14064, distributed computing architectures, green

test beds, relocation of resources to renewable energy sites, etc.;• Expand to other organizations.

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• CANARIE $4M Green cyber-infrastructure pilot test bed to share infrastructure & maximize lower cost power by “following the wind & sun” networks.

Source: CANARIE

• International partnerships with possible zero carbon nodes using virtual router computers in California, Spain, Ireland, California, Australia, Ontario, British Columbia, Nova Scotia and Quebec.

2. Support Infrastructure Development (2)

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3. Support University & Industry R&D

• PISA, CCSIP and NetVirt, etc. R&D projects on router, optical, W/Wireless, distributed computing architectures, virtualization, grids, Web services, dematerialization, clouds, remote instrumentation & sensors, etc.

Source: GENI

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• 30M$ Canadian Center of excellence for Commercialization and Research in Energy Efficiency solutions in ITC, building, transport and processes;

–ICT focus on energy efficiency solutions and green data centers.• Exploration of virtual carbon trading systems where CO2 offsets are traded

for access to grid computational cycles, wide area network bandwidth, research funding or other virtual services.

4. Commercialization & Innovative funding

Technologies du bâtiment

Nouvelles technologies énergétiques

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Green ICT Interest in Canada & Worldwide

• Strong commitment involving 11 firms, 15 Canadian and 11 international universities & institutions;

• Open initiative to expand in California then rest of the world.

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Conclusion: Let’s join to rescue the planet

Source: Greenpeace, Climate talks at the Major Economies Forum in April 2009

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Using ICTs to Reduce Global Warming

For information:

Jacques Mc Neill, mbaCoordinator, Green ICT InitiativePrompt Inc.+514.875.0032 ext. [email protected]

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