ICT and climate change

Digital technologies are currently widespread and increasing in use. However, they are an important source of environmental impact.

Sources of impact[edit | edit source]

Some examples are:

• Mining:
• Land use: digital communications require land for data centers and network equipment
• E-waste
• Energy use
• Non-digital equipment
• Automation

Initiatives[edit | edit source]

• Green Web Foundation
• Green Screen Coalition
• Wikipedia:Phone Story mobile game.

See also[edit | edit source]

• Wikipedia:Green computing
• Wikipedia:ICT in Climate Change

References[edit | edit source]

• Williams, Eric (2011). Environmental effects of information and communications technologies. Nature, 479(7373), 354–358. doi:10.1038/nature10682

Page data

Keywords	sustainability, ict, stub
SDG	SDG13 Climate action
License	CC-BY-SA-4.0
Language	English (en)
Related	0 subpages, 1 pages link here
Impact	page views
Created	November 7, 2023 by Emilio Velis
Modified	November 7, 2023 by StandardWikitext bot
Cite as	"ICT and climate change". Appropedia. 2023. Retrieved April 26, 2024.
API queries	basic, semantic, html, files, more