This document discusses how information and communication technologies (ICTs) can help stop climate change. The objectives are to promote ICT implementation to improve energy efficiency and consumption monitoring in industry. The methodology discusses four areas where ICT can reduce emissions: motor systems, logistics, buildings, and grids. ICT can standardize energy data, incorporate monitoring, and provide accountability. It can also rethink operations and transform energy management. Results show ICT ensuring responsible energy use through monitoring, data sharing, reverse logistics, and remote building/grid management. The perspective is that ICT could reduce global emissions by 7.8 gigatons annually by 2020, five times its carbon footprint, saving $946.5 billion through avoided electricity

1. ICTs TO STOP CLIMATE CHANGE
Ignacio Vila Barber *, Javier Turégano Gómez
* corresponding author: ivila@invate.es
1. Context 2. Objectives
According to a well-argued, climate change "has to be considered as the biggest To promote the implementation of new Information Technologies in order to get a grip on
market failure the world has ever known before. There is a scientific consensus that the consumption and energy efficiency in industrial sectors that make up the business. We
world has a little time to deal with increased emissions of greenhouse gases and thought it needed to boost the use of ICTs as a powerful tool for the preservation of the
climate change. We can not err on this issue because, if we are wrong, employment environment and educate both employees and employers in using them to build a new
and prosperity would not be the only aspects that will be threatened but also the ability business network aware and directed toward sustainable economy.
of human beings continue to live comfortably in our planet.
3. Methodology
To get things moving forward, we consider four main areas in which the application of
ICT has enormous potential in reducing harmful emissions: Motor systems, Logistics,
Buildings, Grids. Through standards, monitoring and accounting tools and rethinking
and optimizing how we live and work, ICT could be one crucial piece of the overall
transformation to a low carbon economy. We believe that the ICT sector can play an
important role to achieve these savings.
3.1 Standardise, Account, Monitor
ICT can provide information in standard forms on energy consumption and emissions,
across sectors. ICT can incorporate monitoring information into the design and control
for energy use. ICT can provide the capabilities and platforms to improve accountability
of energy and carbon.
3.2 Rethink
ICT can offer innovations that capture energy efficiency opportunities across
buildings/homes, transport, power, manufacturing and other infrastructure and provide
alternatives to current ways of operating, learning, living, working and travelling.
3.3 Transform
ICT can apply smart and integrated approaches to energy management of systems and
processes, including benefits from both automation and behaviour change and develop
alternatives to high carbon activities, across all sectors of the economy.
4. Results
By implementing several ITC actions we ensure a responsible energy use in order to
warranty a better future to our planet. To do so we strongly recommend solutions such
as: Monitoring of energy consumption and energy savings, Transfer of energy
consumption data to local and central governments for regulatory compliance, Reverse
logistics to allow the back-loading of vehicles on the network and for the return of
unsold/damaged goods to the supplier, Remote building and grid management.
5. Perspectives
It found that ICT could reduce global carbon emissions by 7.8 GtCO2e by 2020 (from an assumed total of 51.9 GtCO2e if we remain on a BAU
(business as usual), an amount five times larger than its own carbon footprint. Savings from avoided electricity and fuel consumption would reach
600 billion ($946.5 billion), once again showing that tackling climate change is not only good for the climate but good for the economy. We believe
that ICT will be a key player in the fight against climate change.
Acknowledgements: Our deepest thanks to the Professional Association of Industrial Engineers of the Valencian Region, who
shared important information, allowing that this article was written.