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With the UN summit on climate change being undertaken in Copenhagen from 7th to 14th of December the globe switches the attention to the severity of the situation and the high need for swift actions from all levels of the international community. If you cannot make it to the summit you can find a variety [...]
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European elections concluded this weekend and one important observation comes out, by simply browsing through the final results. All political parties in the European Parliament looses power over the Greens and “others”. This underlines the fact that our environmental future becomes increasingly important for the public.
You may recall that a similar political trend formed back [...]
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With all this attention on public broadband projects and Greece’e national FTTH project I haven’t blogged much about my other favorite topic: sustainable economic growth. Without looking for another excuse, here’s an excellent talk by Ray Anderson available at www.ted.com discussing the business case of sustainability. How a change from the (polluting) traditional industrial organization [...]
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This post may seem somewhat outside of the central topic of this blog, however it highlights the long-term planning of a forward looking European city towards a sustainable economic and social green future, in which broadband certainly assumes a central role.
Manchester authorities has recently released a Deloitte study labeled a “Mini Stern” which analyze how [...]
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Excerpts from the public consultation text follows:
At the 2007 Spring European Council, the Heads of State and Government highlighted the development of a sustainable integrated European climate and energy policy as a top priority and adopted an energy and climate package to guide the EU towards a competitive and secure energy economy while promoting energy [...]
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Here’s a recent communication by the European Commissions acknowledging the importance of ICT towards sustainable economic and societal growth in terms of energy consumption and carbon emissions. The communication focuses on ICT itself (replacement of old technology equipment with newer and more efficient) and on improving energy efficiency across the economy through the use of [...]
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The results of a unique research exercise evaluating the sustainability and environmental impact of fiber networks were announced at the FTTH Council Europe event held in Paris last month.
Joeri Van Bogaert, president of the Council, said, “The results clearly demonstrate the overall service and environmental benefits of FTTH. The findings stand as testament that fiber [...]
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Costas Troulos is a telecoms analyst and passionately covers wireline broadband and related developments in Greece and the rest of the world. For the last 4 years he has been involved in several consulting and research projects on public broadband investments, FTTH and metro network deployments. His is interested in everything related to telecom regulation/policy, national strategies and NGN business models.