Summary

Recommendation ITU-T L.1470 provides detailed trajectories of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions for the global information and communication technology (ICT) sector and sub-sectors that are quantified for the year 2015 and estimated for 2020, 2025 and 2030. In addition, Recommendation ITU-T L.1470 establishes a long-term ambition for 2050. The trajectories, the long-term ambition and the 2015 baseline have been derived in accordance with Recommendation ITU-T L.1450 and through complementary methods in support of the 1.5°C objective described by the IPCC in its Special report: Global warming of 1.5°C and in support of the Science-based Targets (SBT) initiative.