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Blog Action Day: Climate Change & Videoconferencing
October 15, 2009 | | Leave a Comment
It’s Blog Action Day and the theme this year is climate change.
Climate change represents a profound challenge to the lives and livelihoods of everyone, but particularly those living in developing economies acutely dependent on natural and nature-based resources. If the international community fails to act, the overall costs and risks of climate change will be equivalent to losing at least 5% of global GDP each year, now and forever. (Achim Steiner, Executive Director of United Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and Under-secretary General of the United Nations) Read more.
According to CARE:
Climate change cannot be addressed by continuing to conduct “business as usual.” It requires new thinking, new standards and new tools, as well as new partnerships to translate them into decisive action.
CARE has a brochure with Six ways to reduce your carbon footprint they are:
- Cut back on meat one to two meals per week.
- Switch to compact fluorescent light bulbs.
- Make it a full – and cold – load.
- Reduce your “phantom” energy load.
- Reduce your use of bottled water.
- Give your car a break.
I think we can add a 7th – Use videoconferencing! Videoconferencing is the ideal way to reduce your carbon footprint & help to limit the consequences of climate change. So use your videoconferencing system in as many ways as you can over the next month instead of travelling.
