Direct and Indirect Effects of Mobile Networks on CO2 Emissions: A German Case Study

Bernd Sörries ()
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Bernd Sörries: Forschungsstelle für Mobiles Internet am ITM

Chapter Chapter 7 in Broadband Networks, Smart Grids and Climate Change, 2013, pp 59-72 from Springer

Abstract: Abstract During the past years, mobile services have profoundly changed daily life and work. Mobile services are ubiquitously available today. There are more than four billion subscriptions to the networks worldwide. The price of the “mobile success story” is a growing carbon footprint of mobile communication at a time when especially politicians have accepted climate change as a major threat to be addressed by all stakeholders of an economy. Although some studies on the ecological impact of information and communication technologies (ICT) have been published (e.g. Erdmann/Hilty 2010), much of the debate has been centered on its negative energy impact (Masanet/Matthews 2010, 688). Also there are only a few (national) case studies revealing empirical data on the positive and negative environmental impacts related to mobile communication (e.g. Malmodin 2010; Malmodin et al. 2010; Biczók et al. 2011).

Keywords: Mobile Network; Electricity Consumption; Smart Grid; Carbon Footprint; Mobile Service (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2013
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DOI: 10.1007/978-1-4614-5266-9_7

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