December 03, 2009
Green Digital Charter
14 European cities have taken an initiative to commit to harness Information and Communications Technologies (ICT) to address climate change, especially to increase energy efficiency and reduce emissions. By signing the 'EUROCITIES Green Digital Charter' on 27 November during that network's conference on local government action for a green recovery, the mayors of these cities, which range in population size from Reykjavik (120,000) to Vienna (1.5 million), have agreed to:
- Deploy five large-scale ICT pilot projects before 2015;
- Decrease ICT's direct carbon footprint by 30% by 2020; and
- Create a partnership of cities on ICT & Energy Efficiency to work until 2011.
Among the activities which are expected to put this pledge into practice are regulatory incentives; establishing new types of public-private partnerships with business, industry and the voluntary sector; and sharing expertise and practice with other cities. The Green Digital Charter is led by Manchester and builds on 'Greenshift Europe', an initiative of a group of UK cities.
Posted by iroronan at December 3, 2009 10:04 AM
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