The IT industry will be mentioned in the draft climate treaty that will form the basis for negotiations at next month's UN summit in Copenhagen, following a successful lobbying campaign from the international body that regulates the IT and telecommunications industry.
The International Telecommunications Union said that the main aim of its push to have IT included in the treaty is to see energy-efficient IT projects included in the Clean Development Mechanism (CDM) offsetting scheme, or any successor to it.

The CDM allows emission-reduction projects in developing countries to issue carbon credits or Certified Emission Reductions (CERs) that can be sold to governments and businesses in richer nations to generate an additional revenue stream for low-carbon investments.

Source: Business Green

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