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Programme

Forum on “Green ICT for a sustainable resource efficient economy”
22 September 2014

Contact:    greenstandard@itu.int

Day 1, 22 September 2014

​08:30 - 09:30Registration
​09:30 - 10:30​​Opening Ceremony
​10:30 - 11:00​​Coffee Break and Photo Session
​11:00 - 11:30 Keynote speech
Questions and Answers
​11:30 - 13:00​​Session 1: Planning for climate change adaption – addressing vulnerabilities using ICT

Climate change is a complex and dynamic challenge, which countries are faced to.
Providing useful tools to monitor, collect and analyze information about the changing climate and environment, ICT can help countries in strengthening adaptive capacity in order to reduce the impacts of climate change and increase resilience to future threats. This session will present the role of ICT in supporting information­gathering, decision­making, implementation and evaluation processes to respond to climate change and environmental degradation challenges and it will stress the convenience of integrating ICT in national adaptation policies to help countries develop long term, creative and effective adaptation strategies. It will also discuss the importance of improving the resilience of telecommunications infrastructure in extreme climate conditions.

Moderator: Paolo Gemma, Chairman of Working Party 3 of ITU-T Study Group 5 [Biography]

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Questions and Answers
​13:00 - 14:00 ​Lunch Break
​14:00 - 16:00 Session 2: Green ICT opportunity – can ICT deliver carbon mitigation goals?
Sustainable development is essential to address climate change and environmental challenges effectively. Transformational changes are therefore necessary both in technology development as well as in our patterns of production and consumption. Green ICT stands for environmentally friendly and resource efficient information and communications technology and thus for increasing efficiency and saving energy in an intelligent and sustainable manner. This session will look at the role that ICT and ICT sector can play in helping other sectors to reduce their own emissions and will present ongoing efforts undertaken by the ICT sector to reduce its own emissions.

Moderator: Ziqin Sang, Vice-Chairman, ITU-T Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities [Biography

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Questions and Answers  
16:00 - 16:30 Coffee Break
16:30 - 18:25 ​Session 3: Green ICT standards – a path to environmental sustainability
          
By raising awareness of ICTs’ role in tackling environmental challenges including climate change, ITU is promoting innovative ICT solutions to environmental questions and is developing green ICT standards to support a sustainable future.
This session will provide an overview of ITU’s activities as well as work carried out by other key stakeholders to boost green ICT in order to achieve a green economy.

Moderator: Flavio Cucchietti, Vice-Chairman, ITU-T Study Group 5 “Environment and Climate Change” [Biography]

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Questions and Answers
​18:25 - 18:30 ​Closing remarks