Geneva, 2 APR ( EFE).-the information technology and communication ( ICT) can contribute with 87 per cent of the total of the reduction of gas emissions that cause global warming that is needed to prevent a rise in temperatures exceeding 2 degrees Celsius.
Thus emerges from the study published today by the international Union for telecommunications (ITU) – an agency technical United Nations-, in which an estimated that by 2020 the emission reduction potential of ICT thanks equals 7.8 gigatons of greenhouse gases.
Scientists have shown agreement that requires a total reduction of 9 gigatons to keep global temperature rise below 2 degrees Celsius, which could limit the most adverse effects of climate change.
The report of the Committee on broadband of ITU, which promotes the expansion of this service, take the example of Germany, where it considered that a quarter of total emissions with the appropriate use of ICT could reduce.
To take the case of an emerging great power, points out that an increase of 10 per cent of the penetration of the band broadband in China could mean an increase of 2.5 per cent of their gross domestic product (GDP) at the same time.
“Broadband can help transition the world toward a low consumption economy in fossil energy”, the report says, recalling that there is no part in modern life is not affected by the information technologies and communications, with more than 5,000 million subscriptions to mobile phones and over 2 billion internet users.
To promote that all countries benefited from more evenly than today’s ICT technologies, the Commission of the ILO broadband has raised among its objectives that all countries have by 2015 policy, strategy or plan for broadband to make this more accessible service in technological and economic terms.
According to their estimates, 40 per cent of households in developing countries should have access to internet broadband by 2015 and its cost should not exceed 5 per cent of the average monthly income.
The experts estimate that within three years, 60 per cent of the world population use internet, 50 percent in developing countries and 15 per cent in the least developed countries. EFE
