ICTs: Do they contribute to increased carbon emissions?

Moyer, Jonathan D.; Hughes, Barry B.

doi:10.1016/j.techfore.2011.12.005

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“…The first one motivated by the rising Internet economy and the second one focused on the potentials of ICT in reducing GHG emissions. It is argued that ICT can play a significant role to mitigate global climate change through its ability to improve energy efficiency and reduce renewable energy costs (Moyer and Hughes, 2012).…”

Section: Energy Impacts Of Ictmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…The current study overcomes this limitation by employing a panel estimation technique that allows for cross-country heterogeneity. Moyer and Hughes (2012) use International Futures (IFs) integrated assessment system to explore the dynamic impacts of ICT on economic and energy systems including its impact on carbon emissions. They argue that ICT has the potential to reduce overall carbon emissions across a 50-year time horizon.…”

Section: Ict and Electricity Consumptionmentioning

confidence: 99%

“…Information and Communication Technologies (ICTs) have a wide array of effects on key global systems such as energy and economic systems (Moyer and Hughes, 2012). The rapid use and expansion of these technologies have a number of economic consequences ranging from increasing productivity, boosting economic growth (Shahiduzzaman and Alam, 2014) to reducing corruption (Goel et al, 2012).…”

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confidence: 99%

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“…In this case, Information Technology (IT) has a wide array of negative impacts on vital global systems such as energy and economic systems (Moyer & Hughes, 2012). Hilty et al (2006) also support this view by stating that the production, use, and disposal of IT have a direct effect on the natural environment and eco-sustainability.…”

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Evaluation of Green IT services with Fuzzy Screening approach

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Aalirezaei

2017

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Regarding development of Information Technology, the world of industry has inordinately benefited, albeit that has some losses. Unless the losses are considered, advanced losses will be seen after progress with which is more difficult to cope. Neglecting the future and the risk involved in the industry, not to mention the lack of knowledge in dealing with sudden alterations, compel irrecoverable loss. In this context, information technology services in organizations are aimed to be cost-effective and have minimum environmental impact, according to green information technology strategies. Concerning significance of the issue, purpose of this research is assessment of information technology services with respect to greenness level in a general contractor organization by combination of Fuzzy Analytic Hierarchy Process and Fuzzy Screening Procedure to enhance the greenness level of IT services. The effectiveness of using this approach is including qualitative, quantitative, and uncertainty nature of the problem. In this paper, to consider the Green IT services criteria, literatures have been studied by meta-synthesis method, then the importance of the criteria has been determined by questionnaires so as to rank Green IT criteria. Eventually, the organization level has been concluded in terms of the greenness level of IT services. As a case study, IT experts and managers of KAYSON Inc. organization are considered as statistical population of this research. The reduction had the highest weight among other criteriarecycling and reusing -in KAYSON Inc. organization. Finally, the organization greenness level was determined moderate in terms of IT services.

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“…Such a huge increase in power consumption could result in billions in energy costs. On the other hand, carbon dioxide (CO 2 ) emissions from the ICT industry should never be ignored [4]. In 2010, a study [5] indicated that the ICT industry contributed about 2% of global CO 2 emissions, which is equivalent to the entire airline industry.…”

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Greening the NetFPGA Reference Router

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Abstract:Energy efficiency is an important criterion in the design of next generation networks for both economic and environmental concerns. This paper presents an energy-efficient router that is able to dynamically adapt its routing capability in response to real-time traffic load, achieving energy proportional routing. The NetFPGA reference router, which operates at one of two frequencies (125 MHz or 62.5 MHz), requires a board reset to switch frequencies. We have modified the reference router to allow dynamic switching among five operating frequencies. Experiments with real traces indicate that, compared to the reference router, a 10% power reduction can be achieved through dynamic frequency scaling. When the router is further modified to support green traffic engineering and Ethernet port shut-down, power consumption can be reduced by 46% while maintaining the required quality of service. This allows the router to meet the instantaneous performance requirements while minimizing power dissipation. Similar results can be expected when these general power-saving principles are applied in future commercial routers.

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ICTs: Do they contribute to increased carbon emissions?

Cited by 343 publications

References 10 publications

Information and Communication Technology, electricity consumption and economic growth in OECD countries: A panel data analysis

Information and Communication Technology, electricity consumption and economic growth in OECD countries: A panel data analysis

Evaluation of Green IT services with Fuzzy Screening approach

Greening the NetFPGA Reference Router

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