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 ICANN KL Meeting with senior ICANN staff and the cross community Green Team

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

March 2023 ICANN Cancun Meeting with Lisa Fuhr of ETNO

Aim to do presentation at ICANN Hamburg

June 2023 Planning and meetings at ICANN 77

Oct 2023- ICANN 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
2. Expand on DNS consumption
3. Outreach to Registrars on the number of name servers
4. Identify green registrars

Membership

Raoul Plommer, Chair of NPOC

Tapani Tarvainen, NCSG

Glenn McKnight NARALO

Pari Esfandiari, EURALO ALAC

Javier Rua, cCNSO

Hannah Frank, NextGen

Maartin Botterman, ICANN Board

Lise Fuhr, ETNO

Mark Datysgeld, CSG

Marie Patullo, CSG

Michael Oghia

Documents

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