Dear RIPE Community, here is an overview of events, presentations & announcements about overlap of environmental sustainability and Internet operations / governance / standards: 1. Reporting back from from CCC / 37c3, December 2023 2. Announcing e-impact IETF online session, 15.-16. February 3. W3C plans for 2024 Regards, Vesna ===in reverse order=== Seth Dobbs, CEO of Web Consortium just published their "key themes for the year", and stated: "I am looking forward to making sustainability a new key aspect and goal of web standards. " https://www.w3.org/blog/2024/mapping-key-themes-for-the-year/ === On 15th & 16th of February, there will be an interim session of the IETF group for "Environmental Impacts of Internet Technology": Schedule is here, although the page looks quite bare: https://datatracker.ietf.org/meeting/interim-2024-eimpact-01/session/eimpact Everyone is welcome to join! To get most of the discussions, it is recommended to join the mailing list in advance, and/or to check the archives: https://mailarchive.ietf.org/arch/browse/e-impact/ === 37th instance of CCC congress happened between Xmass & New year 2023; this year, Chaos Communication Congress had a track dedicated to "Sustainability & Climate Justice". You can find the descriptions of talks here: https://fahrplan.events.ccc.de/congress/2023/fahrplan/events.html#sustainability%20&%20climate%20justice and all the videos archived here: https://media.ccc.de/c/37c3/Sustainability%20&%20Climate%20Justice Some are relevant for various RIPE Working groups, for example: * Software Licensing For A Circular Economy * Energy Consumption of Datacenters * Blackbox Chemieindustrie (in German) In adherence with their own mission, there were also Local Hubs for participating in the CCC, called "Chaos Everywhere". === And this is an opportunity to "plug in" (pun intended) our own local hubs: the call for RIPE88 is open! https://ripe88.ripe.net/attend/call-for-local-hubs/ === Vesna Manojlovic -- Senior Community Builder, RIPE NCC https://labs.ripe.net/author/becha/