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
- Flight emissions (ASAP)
- Expand to compensating emissions of the DNS energy consumption (Longer term)
- Outreach to Registrars on the number of name servers (Short term)
- 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