Copenhagen Climate Change Summit And ITC

So the Climate Change Summit has started. As always we don’t know whether there’ll be an agreement to limit carbon emissions, whether the big players will turn up. As usual it’s more to do with national politics and trade than trying to prevent major catastrophes. My take on it all is that the change in the weather is most probably due to human activity (anthropogenic to give it a more formal term). In any case it’s best for us to assume it is and ‘not walk on the grass’, to make an analogy with moral philosophy.

In case you haven’t seen them I wanted to point you out two reports I’ve published on the issues concerning the Summit. In particular:

• I’ve written more about the wider issues and why we should consider limiting our carbon producing activities.
• I’ve also written more specifically about the things CIOs can (and are) doing to improve efficiency, reduce electricity costs and contribute as part of a Corporate and Social Responsibility strategy.

I’ll write more about the technology consequences once the meeting has concluded. In the meantime I’m very interested in your own views on the issue. Please do so by writing comments on this post.