Status of ICT and the Environment in Korea

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Status of ICT and the Environment in Korea
Submission DateJune 30, 2008
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Highlight of Current Activities
Global Warming

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• Increased by 70 since 1970

• Growth of global warming
• The global average temperature has risen by
  0.76C over the past 100 years
• The Korea average temperature has risen by around
  1.54C since 1900

• Impacts of ICTs on Environment
• ICTs contribute an estimated around 2.5of
  global Greenhouse Gas emissions
• If indirect energy use is included, it amounts
  to 14

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Strategic Direction
ICTs to the rescue?
Source Chairmans Report, ITU/MIC Kyoto
Symposium on ICTs and Climate Change 15-16 April
2008

• The use of ICTs can help reduce GHG(GreenHouse
  Gas) emissions indirectly through their
  application in other sectors of the economy
• Whereas the reduction of GHG emissions of ICT
  itself is also noted for careful consideration
• To promote the best use of ICTs, the following
  points were recognized
• the positive economic benefits for the ICT sector
  that can be gained through an environmentally
  friendly approach to business
• the need for exchange of views/information on
  policy development at national, regional, and
  global levels
• the establishment of common approaches at the
  international levels to evaluate CO2 emissions
• the development of policies to create an
  appropriate incentive mechanism
• the importance of awareness and pro-environmental
  behaviour of individual ICT users

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Challenges in Korea

• Greenhouse Gas Emissions
• 10 countries cause more than 60 of global CO2
  emissions
• Korea will join the Kyoto Protocol on the
  compulsory burden of reducing greenhouse gas
  during the second public commitment period
  (20132017)

lt World map Climate Change Performance Index
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Source GermanWatch, The Climate
Change Performance Index 2008
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Next Steps/Actions(1) Policies on ICT the
Environment in Korea

• Master plan for u-Korea (MIC, 06.3)
• Best use of ICT and applications to reduce CO2
  emission
• Using RFID/USN, biosensor, T-DMB, WiBro, GIS, ITS
  to gain real time information about the
  environment
• ? Low-carbon Society
• Master plan for u-City (MIC, 06.12)
• Monitoring the citys atmosphere, quality of
  water, soil in real time and control the citys
  environment
• Reducing CO2 emission and saving resources
• ? Low-carbon City

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Next Steps/Actions(2) TTAs Approach to ICT
the Environment

• Development of Standards for Resource Saving
• Mobile phone charger with 24 pins In December
  2001, TTA developed charger standardwhich has
  decreased waste disposal of chargers
• Estimated resource saving 35 Million per year
• Recently it has been revised into 20 pins
  chargerfor accommodating the multimedia
  functions(07.11)
• The standardization plan for ICT-driven
  Inter-Industry Convergence (TTA, 07.9)
• The more introduction of ICT into various
  industrial areas.
• 10 major standardization areas for IIC
• u-health, u-transportation, u-education, u-home,
  u-environment, u-disaster, u-defense, u-logistic,
  u-finance, u-entertainment
• Early 2008 TTA has launched u-health Project
  Group and several JWGsto develop standards in 10
  IIC areas
• TTA will continue to support ITU Activities,
  especially RFID/USN, for solving Environment
  problem

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