During the Mobile Asia Congress, the GSMA unveiled Mobile’s Green Manifesto, developed in collaboration with The Climate Group, to set out how the mobile industry plans to lower its greenhouse gas emissions per connection. The manifesto makes specific policy recommendations for governments and delegates attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen to realise the full potential of the role that mobile communications can take in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.
Through the Green Manifesto, the mobile industry outlines its goals:
- To reduce its total global greenhouse gas emissions per Connection by 40% by 2020 compared to 2009.
- To aim for carbon neutral growth, despite the fact that the number of mobile connections is set to rise by 70% to 8 billion by 2020.
- To work with handset vendors to ensure that the energy consumed by a typical handset is reduced by 40% by 2020.
- To work with equipment vendors to ensure that the life cycle emissions of network equipment components are reduced by 40% by 2020.
And if you care to read the whole thing, you can do that from this page.