ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY: CURRENT STATUS
As ICANN's mission concerns the global Internet and the public interest, a commitment to environmental, social, and governance sustainability is in the public's interest. In June 2024, ICANN delivered a comprehensive approach for implementing an environmental sustainability strategy for ICANN. (See below for deliverables.)
A mailing list has been created for interested ICANN community, Board, and org members to share best practices and resources and foster discussions around the topic of environmental sustainability. To subscribe to sustainabilitylist@icann.org, please click here.
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Best practices research on environmental sustainability practices focuses on four categories, with further sub-categories:
- Offices, servers, and colocation facilities: office building systems (heating, cooling, automations), lighting, energy providers/sources, waster and water, sustainable commuting and telecommuting, data center management
- Travel: low-carbon travel, flights
- Events: event materials, catering, low-carbon accommodation, community engagement
- Org-wide products/purchases: plastic and single-use items, IT equipment and services, supply chain
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- 7 May 2024: Contracted Parties Summit session: Becoming a Sustainable DNS Industry
- 20 May 2024: RIPE88 session: Exploring the Benefits of Carbon-Aware Routing
- 22 May 2024: RIPE88 session: Studying DNS Energy Consumption
- 24 July 2024, IETF session: Environmental Impacts of Internet Technology
- 24 July 2024, IETF Internet-Draft, by Mallory Knodel: Impacts of the Internet on the Environment, Beyond Carbon
SDG Digital GameChangers Award, a global recognition of projects, applications, and policies that are leveraging digital technologies in pursuit of the 17 United Nations Sustainable Development Goals (SDGs)
- IGF 2024 WS #148 Making the Internet greener and more sustainable
CONTACT
- For questions/comments contact sustainability@icann.org