Russia wants a new ITU-R resolution on the use of...

Russia wants a new ITU-R resolution on the use of wireless technologies and radio systems for environmental protection and to help prevent further climate change, a submission to the June Radiocommunication Advisory Group meeting said. Telecom and information communication technologies are effective cross-cutting tools for helping to reduce greenhouse gas emissions in other sectors of the economy and for reducing the negative effect of human activities on the environment, it said. ITU conferences in 2008 and 2010 determined the main climate change activities in the organization’s development and standardization sectors, Russia said. A 2010 resolution spurred ITU-R work on active and passive remote sensing for environmental observations and other radiocommunication systems in support of climate monitoring, disaster prediction, alerting and response, it said. The proposed resolution would help determine main ITU-R activities on the use of radiocommunications for combating climate change, it said.