EESS talk on "Opportunities and Risks of the Digital Transformation for the Reduction of Greenhouse Gas Emissions – the Case of Switzerland"
Event details
| Date | 24.10.2017 |
| Hour | 12:15 › 13:15 |
| Speaker |
Dr Lorenz Hilty, Professor and Head of Group, Department of Informatics, University of Zurich (UZH), Zurich Short biography: Lorenz M. Hilty is Professor at the Department of Informatics, University of Zurich, and Head of the Informatics and Sustainability Research Group at Empa Materials Science and Technology, St. Gallen. He also serves as Sustainability Delegate of the Executive Board of the University of Zurich and Affiliated Professor at CESC, the Center for Sustainable Communications at KTH Royal Institute of Technology, Stockholm, where he teaches without travelling physically. His research is focused on conceptual frameworks and quantiative models of (positive and negative) impacts of the digitalization on sustainable development. He is the initiator of the international conference series ICT4S, Information and Communication Technologies for Sustainability. |
| Location | |
| Category | Conferences - Seminars |
Abstract:
After some introductory examples of positve and negative impacts of the digital transformation on energy consumption and related greenhouse gas emissions, the talk will present the results of a new study on “Opportunities and Risks of Digitalization for Climate Protection in Switzerland“ with the time horizon of 2025. The study included both the greenhouse gas footprint of the ICT sector from a life cycle perspective and the greenhouse gas abatement potential in application domains such as transport, buildings or demand-side management for electricity. The study has been conducted at UZH in cooperation with WWF and Swisscom.
After some introductory examples of positve and negative impacts of the digital transformation on energy consumption and related greenhouse gas emissions, the talk will present the results of a new study on “Opportunities and Risks of Digitalization for Climate Protection in Switzerland“ with the time horizon of 2025. The study included both the greenhouse gas footprint of the ICT sector from a life cycle perspective and the greenhouse gas abatement potential in application domains such as transport, buildings or demand-side management for electricity. The study has been conducted at UZH in cooperation with WWF and Swisscom.
Practical information
- General public
- Free
- This event is internal
Organizer
- EESS - IIE
Contact
- Prof. Claudia Binder, HERUS