Perhaps a cynic would expect the CEO of a telecommunications operator to believe that increased use of telecoms for teleworking and conference calling can reduce carbon emissions, as Sol Trujillo of Telstra in Australia has argued. But even naked self-interest is good, if it helps us avoid catastrophic climate change.
The Telstra [...]

Global shipping traffic may generate nearly three times more carbon emissions than previously believed, according to a UN report seen by the UK Guardian.
“It calculates that annual emissions from the world’s merchant fleet have already reached 1.12bn tonnes of CO², or nearly 4.5% of all global emissions of the main greenhouse gas.
The report suggests that [...]