Secretary General Hamadoun Touré
13 July 2011 –
Delegates at a United Nations-organised symposium have renewed their call to world leaders to recognize the potential of information and communications technologies (ICTs) to help mitigate the effects of climate change and develop adaptation tools.
The symposium, organized by the UN International Telecommunications Union (ITU) and hosted by Ghana’s Ministry of Communications in the capital, Accra, last week, considered the role vis-à-vis the UN Climate Change Conference (COP-17) in Durban, South Africa, later this year.
In their final document, leading ICT specialists, as well as policy-makers, engineers, government officials, planners and regulators called for the adoption of a “closed loop” approach to manufacturing and recycling, which would reduce the need to extract and process raw materials.
The document also calls for the recognition of the value of ICTs in monitoring deforestation, crop patterns and other environmental phenomena.
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