SMART 2020: Enabling the Low Carbon Economy in the Information Age

A new McKinsey report, commissioned by GeSI (Global e-Sustainability Initiative) was released a couple of days ago. This one looks to be big, both in terms of pages and content. I haven't read throught all 80-odd pages yet, but the summary looks very promising:

"The scale of emissions reductions that could be enabled by the smart integration of ICT into new ways of operating, living, working, learning and travelling makes the sector a key player in the fight against climate change, despite its own growing carbon footprint. No other sector can supply technology capabilities so integral to energy efficiency across such a range of other sectors or industries.

But with this potential comes with responsibility. Emissions reductions in other sectors will not simply present themselves; the ICT sector must demonstrate leadership on climate change and governments must provide the optimum regulatory context. This report outlines the key actions needed."

The summary version (834 kB) of the report is available at:
http://www.gesi.org/files/smart2020reportsummary.pdf

The full - low res - version (1 Mb) of the report is available at: http://www.gesi.org/files/smart2020report_lo_res.pdf

The full (8 MB) version of the report is available at: http://www.gesi.org/files/smart2020report.pdf