Green Manifesto launched by GSMA for the Mobile Industry

At the Mobile Asia Congress, the GSMA unveiled Mobile's Green Manifesto, developed in collaboration with The Climate Group. Rob Conway, CEO and Member of the Board, GSMA, was joined at the launch by China Mobile's Chairman Wang Jianzhou, Kevin Tao, CEO Huawei Device, and Changhua Wu, Greater China Director The Climate Group, who outlined their existing environmental undertakings and goals for the future.

The Green Manifesto sets out how the mobile industry plans to lower its greenhouse gas emissions per connection, and demonstrates the key role that mobile communications can play in lowering emissions in other sectors and industries. It makes specific policy recommendations for governments and delegates attending the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen (COP15), December 7-18, to realise the full potential of the role that mobile communications can take in reducing global greenhouse gas emissions.

Through the Green Manifesto, the mobile industry outlines its goals:
+ To reduce its total global greenhouse gas emissions per Connection by 40% by 2020 compared to 2009.
+ To aim for carbon neutral growth, despite the fact that the number of mobile connections is set to rise by 70% to 8 billion by 2020.
+ To work with handset vendors to ensure that the energy consumed by a typical handset is reduced by 40% by 2020.
+ To work with equipment vendors to ensure that the life cycle emissions of network equipment components are reduced by 40% by 2020.

The full report can be found at: http://www.gsmworld.com/greenmanifesto