- The document discusses how digital infrastructure and information and communication technologies (ICT) can help reduce greenhouse gas emissions and combat climate change by enabling efficiencies in other sectors. ICT has the potential to deliver carbon savings five times larger than its own emissions footprint by 2020.
- The University of California San Diego (UCSD) is working to develop green ICT applications and smart grid technologies through its California Institute for Telecommunications and Information Technology (Calit2). Examples mentioned include smart transportation systems, virtual meetings to reduce travel, and instrumenting buildings and campuses as "living labs" of green technologies.
- UCSD is also working to establish a zero carbon emission campus through fuel cell and solar power installations,