{"id":747,"date":"2021-10-27T09:47:21","date_gmt":"2021-10-27T08:47:21","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/?p=747"},"modified":"2021-10-27T09:47:21","modified_gmt":"2021-10-27T08:47:21","slug":"the-real-climate-and-transformative-impact-of-ict","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/the-real-climate-and-transformative-impact-of-ict\/","title":{"rendered":"The real climate and transformative impact of ICT"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a research project involving Adrian and I, we recently published a paper at <em>Patterns<\/em> on <em>&#8216;The real climate and transformative impact of ICT: A critique of estimates, trends, and regulations&#8217;.\u00a0<\/em><\/p>\n<p>In this paper, we find that ICT forms somewhere between 2.1-3.9% of global greenhouse gas emissions when ICT&#8217;s full supply chains and environmental impacts are considered. We also uncover the assumptions that underpin experts&#8217; estimates of ICT&#8217;s environmental impact, explore ICT trends which could increase the sector&#8217;s emissions, and find that sector-wide compliance is required to ensure ICT aligns with the Paris Agreement.<\/p>\n<p><a href=\"https:\/\/doi.org\/10.1016\/j.patter.2021.100340\">Read the full paper here.<\/a> This work was also picked up by major news outlets including the Telegraph, the Times, Yahoo News, Phys.org, the Daily Mail UK, MSN and BBC Radio 4!<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>As part of a research project involving Adrian and I, we recently published a paper at Patterns on &#8216;The real climate and transformative impact of ICT: A critique of estimates, trends, and regulations&#8217;.\u00a0 In this paper, we find that ICT forms somewhere between 2.1-3.9% of global greenhouse gas emissions when ICT&#8217;s full supply chains and [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":970,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-747","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/970"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=747"}],"version-history":[{"count":1,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":748,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/747\/revisions\/748"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=747"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=747"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/wp.lancs.ac.uk\/sds\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=747"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}