<div dir="ltr"><div>Greetings to all<br><br>As an introduction to the subject I would like to share a video about the real consequences of climate change <a href="https://youtu.be/pBZcQ6cn7RE">https://youtu.be/pBZcQ6cn7RE</a> (please do not comment on the video within this topic), from my country Venezuela in which it is beginning to be affected by climate change and the main reason why which I respond with my point of view, as expressed by Nick.</div><div><br></div><div>as a member of the Deutsche Gesellschaft für Internationale Zusammenarbeit (GiZ) community <a href="https://www.giz.de/en/aboutgiz/profile.html">https://www.giz.de/en/aboutgiz/profile.html</a><br>I have had the opportunity to work firstly on issues of sustainability, sustainable development and climate change, since GIZ has a huge amount of projects aimed at these areas and the mitigation of climate change in more than 50 countries around the world and I can Talk about the subject with ownership.<br><br>For those who do not know, all the combined computing of the planet produces 2% of CO2, causing climate change. (according to UN data)<br><br>While it is interesting that this IGF wanted to make it a little more true from the point of view of climate sustainability (but not the IGF, from a shared responsibility point of view).<br><br>Let's start from the technical point of view:<br> - IETF: I share the point of view provided by Alejandro Acosta about the need to take energy efficiency as a focal point of work (unfortunately it has not gone to large discussions has only been an off-list issue in some ietf, one that was in Germany where I participate in one of those discussions).<br><br>If we evaluate, in numbers; please, see on the page of past meetings of the IETF the number of people who move to those events versus countries represented (in most cases they exceed the ICANN events). Also events such as RIPE have a high number of attendees who mobilize versus represented countries.<br><br>- ICANN: It is true that it does not have a central axis aimed at mitigation and sustainability in contrast to the issue of climate change. But if those who attend these events, whether face-to-face or virtual, do not press for those changes, it will not be possible for that vision regarding climate change to be assumed as part of ICANN's strategic vision.<br><br>I read that some Criticize the issue of ICANN events (whose arguments Aydeen has made in this discussion, I agree on some points and that directly affect the main civil society affected by climate change). since many times the issues related to civil society have no remote participation.<br><br>- IGF: In my experience with the topic of climate change, in the IGF of 2013, there was a topic about climate change, I was the only assistant to the subject of an area where climate change begins to have visible effects, the rest were developed countries (we were only 7 people from 4 countries); In the same way, it happened with the theme of smart cities. I was the only one in an undeveloped country, the rest were 4 developed countries.<br><br>My proposal regarding the steps to follow:<br><br>- Climate change should be an issue that is promoted from national and regional Internet governance initiatives, in order to create a better understanding of the importance of climate change and how to plan a mitigation agenda on the use of technology Its impact on our environment.<br><br>- Boost from the various Internet axes (Technical, Political and Social) on the relevance of creating an agenda in conjunction with a realistic projection, (perhaps the UN 2030 agenda serves as an example); but closer in terms of time no more than 5 years for the visions of IGF, IETF, ICANN and other entities to be completed<br><br>- Promote that new technologies contribute to design tools or promote initiatives that allow progress in mitigating climate change (at the technical level)<br>For example: IBM has organized hackatons around the world <a href="https://callforcode.org">https://callforcode.org</a> to propose technology-based solutions.<br>also the next hackathon initiative<br><a href="https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com">https://hacktoberfest.digitalocean.com</a><br>Whose axis of this year will be the projects related to climate change (<a href="https://github.com/topics/climate-change">https://github.com/topics/climate-change</a>)<br>The IGF space would be an excellent opportunity to give visibility to potential projects as well as the initiatives within the last IGFs.<br><br>- Promote within the MAG that IGF events share the objectives of the 2030 agenda effectively, by optimizing the use of event energy and CO2 compensation mechanisms.<br><br>- I suggest to MAG, that if a space is available on the Zero Day of the IGF, they can organize a small space and invite GIZ which is headquartered in Berlin, inviting them to give a talk with their large panel of experts on the change climate. They will surely be interested in participating and contributing a valuable point of view.</div><div><br></div><div>Finally, it is good to highlight some points that I see that many are not clear.<br><br>- Climate sustainability ≠ sustainability of the IGF.<br>- The digital divide and the face-to-face or remote participation in the igf.<br> Many of us understand that the digital divide and remote participation go hand in hand for better or worse, based on my experience many people will not have the opportunity to participate even remotely and less in person because of the costs of traveling (apart from the incidence of CO2) That is why it seems absurd to me that many limit themselves to proposing as I have heard first hand in other instances that it is not good for X or Y organization to send x number of people to an IGF.<br><br>Because many of those regularly attend these events, nor do they mind having a shared responsibility for mitigating climate change.<br><br>Unfortunately, not all of us can be like Greta that I wish we could defend those who are directly affected by present and future inactions that have no practical effect in curbing or mitigating climate change.<br><br>And ultimately, I call on everyone to reflect on how our habits impact the climate, because to demand large and transversal changes; We must first collaborate on a personal level with a sum of small changes that we can all contribute from the invididual.<br><br>I hope that serves something and can help improve the debate.<br><br>That is why I invite you to create a new thread focusing solely on the issue of climate change within the IGF in a depoliticized way and without agendas. For we will be replicating what has been seen this week about climate change within the UN during the annual assembly this past week, something that many criticize via social networks.<br><br>Best regards.</div><div><br></div><div><br></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div>Raitme Citterio<br><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:13px;line-height:17px;font-family:OpenSans;vertical-align:baseline;text-decoration:underline;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgb(51,160,255)">4FE7 B994 C1CF 2815</span><span style="margin:0px;padding:0px;border:0px;font-style:normal;font-weight:400;font-stretch:inherit;font-size:13px;line-height:17px;font-family:OpenSans;vertical-align:baseline;letter-spacing:normal;text-align:start;text-indent:0px;text-transform:none;white-space:normal;word-spacing:0px;background-color:rgb(255,255,255);color:rgba(0,0,0,0.2);word-break:normal">@pgp</span></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">El lun., 23 de sep. de 2019 a la(s) 11:55, Nick Shorey (<a href="mailto:lists@nickshorey.com">lists@nickshorey.com</a>) escribió:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex"><div style="overflow-wrap: break-word;">Hi everyone,<div><br></div><div>I noted an apparent absence of sessions at IGF Berlin to discuss the topic of climate impact of the Internet, and it seems a very relevant component of how responsible growth of the Internet needs to link up with other UN SDGs - with the IGF being a pertinent forum for such discussion and exchange of ideas - indeed it was noted in this ITU report:</div><div><br></div><div><a href="https://www.itu.int/themes/climate/dc/docs/second-meeting/DCICC-Statement.pdf" target="_blank">https://www.itu.int/themes/climate/dc/docs/second-meeting/DCICC-Statement.pdf</a></div><div><br></div><div>Is anyone looking into this, or would like to collaborate? Maybe we can convene a dynamic debate or proposition during the IGF?</div><div><br></div><div>(I appreciate that this is not directly relevant to a particular current ICANN policy track, but I’m sure this might be of broader interest to many of those on this list)</div><div><br></div><div>Kind regards,</div><div><br></div><div>Nick</div><div><br></div><div><br><div>
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