[ripe-list] RIPEng & environmental sustainability / Climate Action (events, reports, papers)

Dear RIPE List,

to reply to Randy's question in a round-about way:

On 03/02/2024 20:44, Randy Bush wrote:
> vesna or other fosdem attendees, did you look in on the junior track?

group of topics that "juniors" are busy with these days are: climate 
justice & environmental sustainability *in tech*... because:

“No research on a dead planet”: preserving the socio-ecological 
conditions for academia 
https://www.frontiersin.org/articles/10.3389/feduc.2023.1237076


You can see that from the focus of upcoming academic events:

7. March: Willem De Kooning Academy (Rotterdam) : "Traces of Power" : 
https://top.permacomputing.net

21-22. March: Royal Science Academy (KNAW) (Amsterdam) :
"Sustainable Digitalisation in Europe: Focus on data infrastructures and 
cloud 
computing" https://aces.uva.nl/content/events/2024/03/sustainable-digitalisation-in-europe.html

18-19. June (Online) Tenth Workshop on "Computing within Limits"
https://computingwithinlimits.org/2024/

^^^ Call for papers & Local Hubs is open till 15th March!

More events, that I already posted to RACI list (Academic Cooperation)
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/raci-list/2024-February/000276.html
https://www.ripe.net/ripe/mail/archives/raci-list/2024-February/000279.html


Our industry is also busy with these topics:

* Via Chris Adams: report on "Energy Consumption in Data Centres and 
Broadband Communication Networks in the EU" (2024-02-16)
https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC135926

(by European Commission's Joint Research Centre)

"It gives some good analysis of the various data sources, and how they 
were collected. Page 27 is a really information dense, but helpful chart 
- showing datacenter use side by side with networks, as well as the 
share that these make up of national energy use."

* Via Rudolf van der Berg: GSMA just published a report on how telcos 
are doing with regards to Net Zero goals "2024: State of the Industry on 
Climate Action" 
  https://www.gsma.com/betterfuture/wp-content/uploads/2024/02/Mobile-Net-Zero-2024-State-of-the-Industry-on-Climate-Action.pdf

My favourite quote: "Increasing the circularity of mobile phones and 
network equipment is critical to reducing value chain emissions. "


"Climate action" (#) is also known as SDG13, and it was mentioned in:

** Inter-University Sustainable Development Research Programme (IUSDRP) 
et.al paper  "The central role of climate action in achieving the United 
Nations’ Sustainable Development Goals": 
https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-023-47746-w.

** & in the talk at ICANN's EURALO Roundtable meeting on "Internet 
Governance for Sustainable Development Goals" in February 
https://community.icann.org/pages/viewpage.action?pageId=303202361

Therefore, any activity for educating / attracting "next generation" of 
RIPE participants should be including topics of climate action.

Regards,
Vesna

(#) https://sdgs.un.org/goals/goal13

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