Climate Action 2012-2013

INFORMATION AND COMMUNICATIONS TECHNOLOGY
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enabling impact in other sectors; supporting
investment in broadband infrastructure; including
ICT solutions in policies designed to tackle
transformational change; facilitating cross-sector
collaboration between the ICT sector and other
sectors; green public procurement; investing in
R&D; and building awareness of ICT solutions by
educating users and helping to facilitate
behavioural change.
GeSI endeavours to work with the wide range of
stakeholders needed to make a difference for our
planet. We aim to collaborate and work together
to move from potential to reality, and truly enable
ICT to achieve one-planet living.
Luis Neves is Chairman of the Global
e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI), a position he has
held since 2006 after being re-elected for a third
term in 2012. He is also Climate Change and
Sustainability Officer, Executive Vice President, at
Deutsche Telekom Group. With over thirty years of
experience at the national and international level in
the field of telecommunications and the Information
Society, Luis has played a fundamental role in
promoting the role of ICT in relation to climate
change. Luis was the driving force and chairman of the
steering committee of the landmark study SMART
2020 - Enabling the Low Carbon Economy in the
Information Age. Luis currently holds positions and
participates in a range of international projects and
initiatives including GeSI, the United Nations Global
Compact Lead and the Steering Committee of the
United Nations ‘Caring for Climate’ initiative.
The Global e-Sustainability Initiative (GeSI)
is a strategic partnership of the Information and
Communication Technology (ICT) sector and
organisations committed to creating and promoting
technologies and practices that foster economic,
environmental and social sustainability. Formed in
2001, GeSI’s vision is a sustainable world through
responsible, ICT-enabled transformation. GeSI fosters
global and open co-operation, informs the public
of its members’ voluntary actions to improve their
sustainability performance, and promotes technologies
that bring forward sustainable development. GeSI
has 32 members representing leading companies
and associations from the ICT sector. GeSI also
partners with two UN organisations – the United
Nations Environment Programme (UNEP) and the
International Telecommunications Union (ITU) – as
well as a range of international stakeholders committed
to ICT sustainability objectives. These partnerships
help shape GeSI’s global vision regarding the
evolution of the ICT sector, and how it can best meet
the challenges of sustainable development. For more
information, see www.gesi.org.
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