GreenICANN

GreenICANN was initiated because of a firm belief that the Internet needs to be sustainable and ICANN is a significant part of the Internet infrastructure. Unfortunately ICANN still contributes to climate change due to the energy consumed in its travel, servers and day to day operation of the DNS.

History

October 2022 ICANN75 Kuala Lumpur Meeting with senior ICANN staff and the cross community Green Team.

Javier and Raoul spoke at the open forum to the community to promote a Carbon Neutral organization.

March 2023 ICANN Cancun Meeting with Lise Fuhr of ETNO

June 2023 Planning and meetings at ICANN77, in Washington.

Aiming to have a session in Oct 2023 for ICANN78, in Hamburg.

Charter

To raise the awareness of Green initiative at ICANN, to make it a carbon neutral organization.

Goal

The objective of this document is to raise the issue for ICANN to consider the adoption of the major tenets of Corporate Social Responsibilities and a Green Manifesto so it’s integrated into the existing Five-year strategic plans.

Mission Statement

Scope

Short and Long Term Recommendations

1. Flight emissions (ASAP)
2. Expand to compensating emissions of the DNS energy consumption (Longer term)
3. Outreach to Registrars on the number of name servers (Short term)
4. Identify green registrars (Short term)

Membership

Raoul Plommer, Chair of NPOC

Tapani Tarvainen, NCSG

Glenn McKnight, NARALO

Pari Esfandiari, EURALO

Javier Rua, ccNSO

Hannah Frank, NextGen

Maartin Botterman, ICANN Board

Lise Fuhr, ETNO

Mark Datysgeld, CSG

Marie Patullo, CSG

Michael Oghia

Possible participants from the CPH after presenting them with a charter:

Reg Levy, Desiree Milosevic

Documents

The longer, Green Manifesto working document and the Corporate Social Responsible Organization approach can be found here https://docs.google.com/document/d/17lvhkxiV_uCGrE4-VgAvLuFoNmCM9uqIEMfeWP0XB3E/edit?usp=sharing

Not-for-Profit Organizations Constituency

Non-Commercial Stakeholder Group. Represents the full range of non-commercial entities of the Internet (ICANN Bylaws). Not to be confused with the At-Large Advisory Committee.

Country Code Names Supporting Organization. Develops and recommends to the Board global policies relating to country-code top-level domains (ICANN Bylaws).

Commercial Stakeholder Group. Represents the full range of large and small commercial entities of the Internet, including the Business Constituency, Intellectual Property Constituency and the Internet Service Providers and Connectivity Providers Constituency (ICANN Bylaws).

Contracted Parties House. Includes the Registries Stakeholder Group and the Registrars Stakeholder Group (ICANN Bylaws).