High Level Event :: The Green Digital Charter
The Green Digital Charter signing ceremony
SEVEN cities signed the Green Digital Charter at the ICT4EE Event
An official signing ceremony of the "Green Digital Charter" was held on 23
February as part of the High Level Event on ICT for Energy Efficiency.
The latest 7 signatories are:
>Amsterdam, represented by Dirk Van Der Woude;
>Bologna, represented by Osvaldo Panaro;
>Helsinki, represented by Pekka Sauri;
>Malaga, represented by Francisco de la Torre Prados,
>Nice Cote d’Azur, represented by Florence Barale;
>Rijeka, represented by Vojko Obersnel.
The city of Nuremberg intends to join the group in March.
The above mentioned cities have agreed to:
- Deploy five large-scale ICT pilot projects before 2015;
- Decrease ICT’s direct carbon footprint by 30% by 2020; and
- Create a partnership of cities on ICT & Energy Efficiency to work until 2011.
Background information
The ‘Green Digital Charter’ commits the European Cities to reduce emissions through Information and Communications Technologies (ICT).
It was launched on 27 November 2009 at the EUROCITIES annual conference, where it was already signed by the following 14 European Cities:
Manchester, Reykjavik, Stockholm, Vienna, The Hague, Birmingham, Ghent, Nantes, Genoa, Zaragoza, Murcia, Lisbon, Bristol and Tallinn.
The Green Digital Charter originates from talks between
EUROCITIES (the European
network of major cities -
www.eurocities.eu), Manchester City and the European Commission.
