Huawei highlights 'Green ICT' at Mobile World Congress Barcelona 2021

Doha: Huawei inaugurated its participation in Mobile World Congress (MWC) Barcelona with the “Green Forum” focused on how the ICT industry and digital technologies are contributing to sustainable development in the world, through case studies on green telecom network strategies and key challenges operators face when trying to achieve carbon neutrality.

In his speech at the event, President of Huawei Western Europe, David Li, focused on how the ICT industry can use green digital telecommunications services to support its customers. “We are supporting other industries to reduce their carbon footprint through ICT solutions. We call this ICT enablement our ‘carbon handprint’. The ICT industry’s carbon footprint accounts for only about 2 percent of total emissions. But ICT technologies can be used to reduce total global emissions by up to 20 percent,” he said.  He added that Huawei believes in using bits to manage watts. Bits are the basic units of digital information and watts the basic units of energy. Using bits to manage watts is to use digital technologies to achieve more efficient energy management. “Integrating digital and energy technologies lets us use new technological advances in AI, connectivity, and cloud computing to digitalise the energy industry,” added Li.