How realistic are claims about the benefits of using digital technologies for GHG emissions mitigation?
| Autor: | Rasoldier, Aina, Combaz, Jacques, Girault, Alain, Marquet, Kevin, Quinton, Sophie |
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| Přispěvatelé: | Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA), VERIMAG (VERIMAG - IMAG), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Sound Programming of Adaptive Dependable Embedded Systems (SPADES), Inria Grenoble - Rhône-Alpes, Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria)-Laboratoire d'Informatique de Grenoble (LIG), Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Université Grenoble Alpes (UGA)-Institut polytechnique de Grenoble - Grenoble Institute of Technology (Grenoble INP ), Institut National des Sciences Appliquées de Lyon (INSA Lyon), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA), CITI Centre of Innovation in Telecommunications and Integration of services (CITI), Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Université de Lyon-Institut National des Sciences Appliquées (INSA)-Institut National de Recherche en Informatique et en Automatique (Inria) |
| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2022 |
| Předmět: |
greenhouse gas emissions
environmental assessment [SDE]Environmental Sciences avoided environmental impacts methodology guidelines regular carpooling platforms [INFO]Computer Science [cs] digital solutions environmental assessment avoided environmental impacts methodology guidelines greenhouse gas emissions regular carpooling platforms digital solutions |
| Zdroj: | LIMITS 2022-Eighth Workshop on Computing within Limits LIMITS 2022-Eighth Workshop on Computing within Limits, Jun 2022, Virtual, France |
| Popis: | International audience; While the direct environmental impacts of digital technologies are now well documented, it is often said that they could also help reduce greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions significantly in many domains such as transportation, building, manufacturing, agriculture, and energy. Assessing such claims is essential to avoid delaying alternative action or research. This also applies to related claims about how much GHG emissions existing digital technologies are already avoiding. In this paper, we point out critical issues related to these topics in the state of the art. First, most papers do not provide enough details on the scenarios underlying their evaluations: which hypotheses they are based on and why, and why specific scenarios are chosen as the baseline. This is a key point because it may lead to overestimating the current or potential benefits of digital solutions. Second, results are rarely discussed in the context of global strategies for GHG emissions reduction. These leaves open how the proposed technologies would fit into a realistic plan for meeting current GHG reduction goals. To overcome the underlined limitations, we propose a set of guidelines that all studies on digital solutions for mitigating GHG emissions should satisfy, point out overlooked research directions, and provide concrete examples and initial results for the specific case of carpooling. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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