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            Recommendation ITU-T Y.4700/F.747.2


                             Deployment guidelines for ubiquitous sensor network
                            applications and services for mitigating climate change



            1       Scope
            This  Recommendation  provides  deployment  guidelines  for  ubiquitous  sensor  network  (USN)
            applications  and  services  for  mitigating  climate  change.  The  scope  of  this  Recommendation
            includes:
            –       an overview of climate change monitoring;
            –       analysis of environmental impact by USN applications and services; and
            –       the requirements for deployment of USN applications and services for mitigating climate
                    change.
            Monitoring climate change covers monitoring  the status of greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, as
            well as monitoring climate change by tracing temporal changes of GHG emissions.


            2       References

            The  following  ITU-T  Recommendations  and  other  references  contain  provisions  which,  through
            reference in this text, constitute provisions of this Recommendation. At the time of publication, the
            editions indicated were valid. All Recommendations and other references are subject to revision;
            users of this Recommendation are therefore encouraged to investigate the possibility of applying the
            most  recent  edition  of  the  Recommendations  and  other  references  listed  below.  A  list  of  the
            currently valid ITU-T Recommendations is regularly published. The reference to a document within
            this Recommendation does not give it, as a stand-alone document, the status of a Recommendation.

            [ITU-T Y.2221]      Recommendation ITU-T Y.2221 (2010), Requirements for support of
                                ubiquitous sensor network (USN) applications and services in the NGN
                                environment.


            3       Definitions

            3.1     Terms defined elsewhere

            This Recommendation uses the following terms defined elsewhere:
            3.1.1   climate change [b-IPCC]: Climate change refers to a change in the state of the climate that
            can be identified (e.g., by using statistical tests) by changes in the mean and/or the variability of its
            properties,  and that persists  for an extended period, typically decades  or longer. Climate change
            may be due to natural internal processes or external forcings, or to persistent anthropogenic changes
            in  the  composition  of  the  atmosphere  or  in  land  use.  Note  that  the  Framework  Convention  on
            Climate Change (UNFCCC), in its Article 1, defines climate change as: 'a change of climate which
            is  attributed  directly  or  indirectly  to  human  activity  that  alters  the  composition  of  the  global
            atmosphere and which is in addition to natural climate variability observed over comparable time
            periods'.  The  UNFCCC  thus  makes  a  distinction  between  climate  change  attributable  to  human
            activities  altering  the  atmospheric  composition,  and  climate  variability  attributable  to  natural
            causes.










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