In both the contexts of driving global demand for energy and facilitating the reduction of consumption and attendant greenhouse gas emissions (GHG), the Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector has a very important role to play. In an introductory presentation at the Telco Sustainability Forum (available on demand here), Senza Fili Principal Monica Paolini talked through 5G sustainability efforts, and drew an important distinction between a focus on reducing energy consumption and becoming more energy efficient while optimizing mobile networks to meet real world service demand.
