– 166 – (7.2 – Other miscellaneous matters) – Resolution 673 (WRC-07) \"Radiocommunications use for Earth observation applications\"; – Resolution 750 (WRC-07) \"Compatibility between the Earth exploration-satellite service (passive) and relevant active services\"; – WTSA Resolution 73 (Johannesburg, 2008) \"Information and communication technologies and climate change\", as well as: – Opinion 3 of the 2009 World Telecommunication Policy Forum (ICT and the Environment) – Document C08/52 (ITU and climate change); – the ITU Corporate Annual Report 2008; – Document C09/48 (ITU and climate change), considering the important role of telecommunications/ICTs in all aspects of preventing further climate change, decides that before adoption of the necessary resolution by PP-10 it would be appropriate: to acknowledge: 1) the importance of telecommunications/ICTs in combating climate change; 2) the efforts being made by the ITU Sectors and ITU secretariat (General Secretariat and the three Bureaux) to develop public awareness of the importance of telecommunications/ICTs in reducing greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, in the prediction, detection and mitigation of disasters, and in mitigating the negative effects of natural disasters initiated by climate change; to endorse: 1) ITU activities related to the development of environment-friendly telecommunication (wired and wireless) standards; 2) activities by the ITU General Secretariat and Bureaux aimed at raising awareness of the role of ICTs in combating climate change, resolves to instruct the Secretary-General and the Directors of the Bureaux 1 to transmit a message to the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP/CMP) to be held in Copenhagen in December this year, highlighting the unanimous decision by the 2009 session of the ITU Council regarding the importance of the role of telecommunications/ICTs in combating climate change; 2 to play an active part in the preparation of the United Nations Climate Change Conference 2009 (COP/CMP), as well as in the conference itself, and provide the necessary information on ITU's role and activities in mitigating and adapting to the effects of climate change; 3 to contribute to the development of the Global Framework for Climate Services requested by the World Climate Conference 3 (WCC-3), which was held in Geneva from 30 August to 4 September 2009; 4 to facilitate access to ITU publications, brochures and reports on telecommunications/ICTs of relevance to climate change,