Introduction

In December 2007 ITU-T issued a new report in its Technology Watch Briefing Reports series, entitled “ICTs and Climate Change”, showing how ICTs contribute to global warming, but also how they can mitigate its effects by reducing greenhouse gas emissions in other sectors of the economy such as travel. ICTs can also assist in monitoring climate change and in adapting to the changes it will bring. Following discussion of the issue in TSAG at its December 2007 session, it was agreed to launch a new ITU-T work programme in this area, with symposia being planned for Kyoto (15-16 April 2008, hosted by MIC Japan) and London (17-18 June 2008, hosted by BT).

SG15 can play its part in helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions by implementing energy saving techniques in its standardisation work programme by focusing on the goals of reduced power consumption and energy efficiency. These tutorial sessions provide an overview of climate change and the part played by ICTs in this process. They then look at the European Code of Conduct for broadband equipment before moving on to consider opportunities and techniques for power saving in DSL and PON as well as energy efficient Ethernet. The sessions will also consider and help to refine the SG15 energy saving checklist.

Programme

Wednesday 13 February 2008
Time	Speaker	Topic
0830 - 0835	Yoichi Maeda (Chairman SG15) Andrew  Nunn (Chairman WP1/15)	Opening Why is SG15 interested? Format for three days
Session Chairman: Dave Faulkner (Rapporteur Q2/15)
0835 – 0850	Tim Kelly (TSB)	ICTs and climate change  Symposia on ICTs and climate change
0850 - 0910	Prof Anthony Adegbulugbe (Nigeria), Advisor to the President, and one of the Lead Authors of the Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) 4th assessment report (via audio link/web-based conferencing)	Update on Bali Conference Summary of 4th assessment report
0910 - 0930	Andrew Nunn (Chairman WP1/15) et al	Q & A and SG15 challenges and opportunities Introduce power saving checklist
Thursday 14 February 2008
Session Chairman: Dave Faulkner (Rapporteur Q2/15)
Time	Speaker	Topic
0830 – 0850	Paolo Bertoldi (European Commission) (via audio link/web-based conferencing)	European Code of Conduct for broadband equipment
0850 - 0910	Les Humphrey (BT, UK)	Opportunities and techniques for power saving in DSL
0910 - 0930	Dave Faulkner (Rapporteur Q2/15)	Q & A and power saving checklist
Friday 15 February 2008
Session Chairman: Dave Faulkner (Rapporteur Q2/15)
Time	Speaker	Topic
0830 – 0850	Mike Bennett (Lawrence Berkeley National Laboratory, USA) (via audio link/web-based conferencing)	Energy Efficient Ethernet
0850 - 0910	Frank Effenberger (Huawei, China)	Opportunities and techniques for power saving in PON
0910 - 0930	Yoichi Maeda (Chairman SG15) Andrew  Nunn (Chairman WP1/15) Dave Faulkner (Rapporteur Q2/15)	Q & A and identified future topics on power saving