Dear RIPE Community, here are some "green tech" news that might interest you: === New IETF mailing list: green-bof@ietf.org Archive: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/green-bof/ To subscribe: https://www.ietf.org/mailman/listinfo/green-bof Purpose: This short-term mailing list is for BoF preparation and charter related discussions for holding a WG forming BoF, with the idea of forming a Green networking WG. === I gave an invited presentation: "Internet Governance and Climate Action" at "Traces of Power" student event at WdKA in Rotterdam, on 7 March 2024 https://www.ripe.net/about-us/press-centre/publications/presentations/2024/i... https://top.permacomputing.net === Here is a recording of an online event "AI & the Climate Crisis" on Tuesday, 19 March 2024 from 18:30 to 20:00 (GMT) https://goldsmiths.cloud.panopto.eu/Panopto/Pages/Viewer.aspx?id=609824f6-5e... Dr Dan McQuillan | Goldsmiths, University of London lead the discussion and was joined by: * Boxi Wu - Oxford Internet Institute https://www.oii.ox.ac.uk/people/profiles/boxi-wu/ * Fieke Jansen - Critical Infrastructure Lab https://www.criticalinfralab.net/ * Sebastián Lehuedé - King's College London https://www.kcl.ac.uk/people/sebastian-lehuede * Patrick Brodie - University College Dublin https://people.ucd.ie/patrick.brodie Moderator is the author of the book "Resisting AI" : https://bristoluniversitypress.co.uk/resisting-ai === French regulator ARCEP published 2024 report on “Achieving digital sustainability”: English press release https://en.arcep.fr/news/press-releases/view/n/the-environement-210324.html French press release https://www.arcep.fr/actualites/actualites-et-communiques/detail/n/numerique... French webpage about the report https://www.arcep.fr/cartes-et-donnees/nos-publications-chiffrees/impact-env... ==== Upcoming events in April: 10-12. April, Berlin & online: "Democracy in Engineering Education: Do we need ethics or sustainability in engineering?" https://www.tu.berlin/en/km/n-zertifikat/tins-d-education/democracy-in-engin... 16-17. April, online: "Workshop on Sustainable Computing" https://edas.info/web/nsf-wscs24/ 25-26. April, Munich: EcoCompute Conference https://www.eco-compute.io ==== And, for your reading pleasure: new RFC was published recently: https://www.rfc-editor.org/rfc/rfc9547 "Report from the IAB Workshop on Environmental Impact of Internet Applications and Systems, 2022" Regards, Vesna Manojlovic -- Senior Community Builder, RIPE NCC https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/