GreenICANN
GREENICANN was initiated due to firm belief that the Internet needs to be sustainable seems ICANN is a significant part of the Internet infrastructure which contributes to climate change due to the energy consumed in its travel, servers and day to day root servers operation
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
- Flight emissions
- Expand on DNS consumption
- Outreach to Registrars on the number of name servers
- Identify green registrars
Membership
Raoul Ploomer, Chair NPOC
Tappani Tarvainen, NCSG
Glenn McKnight NARALO
Pari Esfandiari EURALO ALAC
Javier Rua, cCNSO
Hannah Frank, NexGen
Maartin Botterman, ICANN Board
Lise Fuhr, ETNOMark Datysgeld, CSG
Marie Patullo, CSG
Michael Oghia
Desiree Milosevic
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