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Green ICT & Energy
book

Green ICT & Energy

by Jaco H. Appelman, Anwar Osseyran, Martijn Warnier
December 2013
Intermediate to advanced content levelIntermediate to advanced
172 pages
8h
English
CRC Press
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Green IT current developments 39
own footprint. The power of ICT is to change processes to become more energy-efficient (second
order effect). According to Smart 2020, greening by ICT would enable up to 15% reduction of the
global emissions by 2020 (business as usual, third order effect not included). The third order effect
is that ICT teaches us about environmental effects of our behavior and enables us to rethink or
change it. This third order effect, called transformative change by the WWF
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, typically an R&D
area, is expected to have a factor three effect on the total reduction of global emissions (average of
45% reduction by 2020). ICT will help ...
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ISBN: 9780415620963