High-Bandwidth, Low-Carbon, a climate change report commissioned by Telstra
Telecommunications networks can help reduce Australia's greenhouse gas emissions by almost five per cent by 2015 and deliver up to $6.6 billion a year in financial savings for Australian businesses and households.
Towards a High-Bandwidth, Low-Carbon Future: Telecommunications-based Opportunities to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions is a study commissioned by Telstra and prepared by climate change experts, Climate Risk.
The Report has been peer-reviewed by independent experts World Wildlife Fund Australia's Chief Executive Officer, Greg Bourne, and leading Australian energy and environmental authority, Dr Hugh Saddler.
- Telstra Media Release, Towards a High-Bandwidth, Low-Carbon Future
- Executive Summary: Towards a High-Bandwidth, Low-Carbon Future: Telecommunications-based Opportunities to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (PDF, 314 KB)
- Full Report: Towards a High-Bandwidth, Low-Carbon Future: Telecommunications-based Opportunities to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissions (PDF, 5.3MB)
- Telstra's contribution, Telecommunications Climate Change Blueprint - In Brief (PDF, 1.3MB)
- Telstra CEO, Sol Trujillo speech at launch of the Report (PDF, 77KB)
- Climate Risk author Dr Karl Mallon speech at launch of the Report (PDF, 34KB)
- CEO WWF Australia Greg Bourne speech at launch of the Report (PDF, 16KB)
- Podcast Dr Phil Burgess Telstra Group Managing Director Public Policy and Communications and Climate Risk author Dr Karl Mallon.
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