Read this article from BT’s 博天堂入口 Director, 珍木, as she outlines the importance of digital technology in combating 气候变化, and highlights the 气候技术 report produced by SCDI, BT, RSE和博天堂入口.
博天堂入口’s environmental aims are at the forefront of minds like never before. With COP26 fast approaching, our news, political and 业务 agendas have been focusing on the climate crisis. But when the topic of sustainability is raised, people tend to think of a shift towards renewable energy, better recycling and active travel. What they don’t tend to think of is 5G. 但是他们应该.
BT’s technology and communications networks have a significant role to play in enabling the innovative solutions and major change needed to achieve a greener 经济. Our full fibre broadband and 5G networks will power the road to lower carbon ways of life and work. These 更新 bring with them huge energy efficiencies to help shrink 博天堂入口’s environmental footprint.
Technology will help deliver the change needed. However, the true challenge ahead of us is how best to use it. While many of us are aware of how we can individually help slow down the effects of 气候变化, the ways in which organisations and governments can come together to tackle the issue are less obvious.
我们最近发表了一份报告, Innovation Critical: 博天堂入口’s Net Zero Mission and 气候技术 机会, 以及我们的合作伙伴SCDI, Royal Society of Edinburgh and 博天堂入口IS which explored this issue. 它发现 博天堂入口 could be best placed to take advantage of new and emerging technologies, such as artificial intelligence and data analytics, to reduce greenhouse gas emissions and mitigate the impacts of 气候变化. With the right focus and investment, recovery from the pandemic presents a huge opportunity for government, 企业和个人.
BT is working on projects with this goal in sight – but the need for a joined-up approach requires lateral thinking from all. We need to start questioning how best we can partner with suppliers, 客户, peers and government agencies to inspire change – and most importantly, how can we use technology to build innovative solutions at pace and scale?
Work from the University of Stirling provides a great example of how 气候变化 action can be achieved through technology and collaboration. We’re supporting them with a 5G network to develop a first of its kind monitoring system, to deliver its digital-led green recovery programme. 使用连接的传感器, satellite data and artificial intelligence, the programme will provide vital information on water quality and other factors, to inform decisions that could deliver major economic regeneration and sustainability benefits to Forth Valley.
Climate change is currently one of the greatest challenges to humankind, and while digital technology is just one part of the solution, it is absolutely central to the net zero future we must build: it is the thread that knits together these great ideas and makes them possible. Our fixed broadband and mobile 5G networks will shape the way we all live, work and move – supporting everything from home-working, 发展智慧城市, the ‘Internet of things’ and helping to build smart climate solutions.
But while we’re fortunate to live in a developed 经济, 有了这些可供我们使用的工具, it’s time for our nation to start asking “How can we better exploit the opportunities offered by our digital infrastructure to secure our future?”
来源: 博天堂入口先驱报