The Role of Information and Communication Industry (ICT) in the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada

Abdollahbeigi, Bentolhoda; Salehi, Farhang

doi:10.21632/irjbs.13.3.307-315

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“…Promoting their restoration could help with more than a third of the total carbon reduction needed by 2030 to achieve the goals of the Paris Agreement [26]. However, despite the benefits of forests and trees, deforestation and desertification continue at a high rate due to human activities and climate change, endangering millions of people [27].Similarly, several studies demonstrate that ICT has been recognized to combat climate change [28][29][30] by revealing changing climate signals, analyzing, and modeling climate change; and implementing mitigation and adaptation measures to improve human resilience. Cutting-edge ICT innovations have been identified as practical means of combating climate change [29,31,32].…”

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Climate Change, Sustainable Forest Management, ICT Nexus, and the SDG 2030: A Systems Thinking Approach

Empig¹,

Sıvacıoğlu²,

Pacaldo³

et al. 2023

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The 2030 global agenda of the United Nations emphasizes peace, human rights, gender equality, partnership, and women's empowerment. It balances the social, economic, and environmental dimensions of sustainable development. The SDG framework was designed to be integrated and indivisible, making the interconnections of 17 Goals and 169 Sustainable Development Goals Targets (SDTs) more complex that need extensive and intensive investigative research. Recent studies have increased on the interrelationships of SDGs, but none of these have focused on integrating Climate Change (CC), Sustainable Forest Management (SFM), and Information and Communication Technology (ICT), also known as CSI Nexus. This study aims to investigate and identify the 169 SDTs linked to CC, SFM, and ICT and assesses the significance of the relationships between these variables. The alignment of SDTs to CSI Nexus was identified through clustering and mapping techniques. The result argued that 56 SDTs are directly connected within CC+SFM+ICT, 16 within CC+SFM, one within SFM+ICT, and 51 within ICT+CC. Our result suggests that CC is significantly associated with SFM; however, ICT has no significant association with CC and SFM. It further asserts that the ICT and SFM have minimal influence on the SDG 2030 framework. The proposed CSI Nexus and SDTs Integration Framework was a science-informed guide for priority-setting, policy coherence, and decision-making supporting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals. This study does not include interactions, network analysis and visualization, simulations, and modeling between SDG targets.

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Climate Change, Sustainable Forest Management, ICT Nexus, and the SDG 2030: A Systems Thinking Approach

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Sıvacıoğlu²,

Pacaldo³

et al. 2023

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“…Information and Communication Technology (ICT) enables global sustainability by offering innovative solutions for environmental monitoring, resource management, and sustainable practices, accelerating progress in areas such as education, healthcare, and economic opportunities [19][20][21][22][23][24][25]. The natural relationship between CC and forests, and the potential of ICT to prevent climate change and enhance SFM, emphasizes the interconnectedness of these domains in achieving global sustainability.…”

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Climate Change, Sustainable Forest Management, ICT Nexus, and the SDG 2030: A Systems Thinking Approach

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The 2030 global agenda for sustainable development integrates social, economic, and environmental dimensions, emphasizing peace, human rights, gender equality, and women’s empowerment. The SDG framework, consisting of 17 goals, 169 targets (SDTs), and 231 indicators (SDIs), forms a complex, interconnected network that necessitates extensive research. Despite prior studies on SDG interlinkages, the integration of Climate Change (CC), Sustainable Forest Management (SFM), and Information and Communication Technology (ICT), collectively known as CSI Nexus, remains underexplored. This study addresses this gap by identifying SDTs aligned with CC, SFM, and ICT (CSI) and analyzing their linkages within the SDG framework using a systems thinking approach. The objectives are to (1) investigate and identify SDTs connected with the CSI Nexus and (2) assess the significant relationship between and among CC, SFM, and ICT. The primary method involves a simplified meta-analysis and systems thinking approach incorporating content analysis, network visualization, affiliation matrix mapping, frequency distributions, and Spearman’s rho correlation. Results reveal 56 SDTs directly connected within CC + SFM + ICT, 16 within CC + SFM, one within SFM + ICT, and 51 within ICT + CC. The analysis indicates CC is significantly associated with SFM, while ICT has no significant association with CC and SFM, asserting minimal influence of ICT and SFM on the SDG 2030 framework. This research provides significant insights for decision-makers and stakeholders, contributing as a science-informed guide for priority-setting, policy coherence, and decision-making supporting the 2030 Sustainable Development Goals across sectors.

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“…Moreover, the PON is being deployed globally and due to these massive deployments, its power consumption contribution in the information and communication (ICT) sector has been increasing. For example from the year 2010 to 2015, the total power requirement of the ICT sector was around 20GW that is now expected to reach to 1.5 TW by 2025 2 which has been estimated to contribute to 14 percent of the global GHG emissions by 2040 6 …”

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“…For example from the year 2010 to 2015, the total power requirement of the ICT sector was around 20GW that is now expected to reach to 1.5 TW by 2025 2 which has been estimated to contribute to 14 percent of the global GHG emissions by 2040. 6 Generally, PON is considered to be a green technology compared to both copper access network as well as the active optical network (AON) technology, however, it is always-ON requirement of optical network unit (ONU) due to the synchronous nature provides a research opportunity to reduce its power consumption. It has been reported that the use of energy conservations schemes is helping to reduce its carbon footprint.…”

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Traffic aware cyclic sleep‐based power consumption model for a passive optical network

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Faheem

Anwar

et al. 2022

Int J Numerical Modelling

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For a network, a power consumption model is an important tool to test the performance of a network process for different traffic loads. In a Passive optical network (PON), the optical network unit (ONU) is responsible for the major power consumption of PON. Both IEEE and ITU have standardized a cyclic sleep process (CSP) for ONU energy conservation. In next-generation PON; TWDM and XGS PON, the ONU power contribution has increased further due to higher number of ONUs and ONU being tunable. Therefore, an accurate power consumption model of the CSP process for energy efficiency studies under different traffic conditions is of prime importance. The existing CSP power consumption models do not depict the CSP process accurately especially the inactivity of the ONU in the asleep and sleep aware states are not taken into account which reduce the accuracy of the model. The proposed inactivity aware model (IAM) overcomes these gaps and very accurately models the CSP process, as evident from the results, which are better than earlier model results and quite close to earlier published simulation results. The model is also validated through a simulation-based study and the simulation results are observed to be very close to the model results with only a 5% deviation.

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The Role of Information and Communication Industry (ICT) in the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions in Canada

Cited by 8 publications

References 2 publications

Climate Change, Sustainable Forest Management, ICT Nexus, and the SDG 2030: A Systems Thinking Approach

Climate Change, Sustainable Forest Management, ICT Nexus, and the SDG 2030: A Systems Thinking Approach

Climate Change, Sustainable Forest Management, ICT Nexus, and the SDG 2030: A Systems Thinking Approach

Traffic aware cyclic sleep‐based power consumption model for a passive optical network

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