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Climate change: Huawei and ZTE dial into China’s carbon neutrality call with low-emission technology using renewable energy
- New International Telecommunication Union standards require the ICT industry to reduce carbon emissions by 45 per cent from 2020 to 2030
- Huawei and ZTE are helping companies increase energy efficiency and are supporting renewable energy projects with their information and communications technology
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As China aims to achieve carbon neutrality by 2060, telecommunications giants Huawei Technologies Co and ZTE are leveraging technologies to help customers and suppliers cut their carbon footprint and embrace renewable energy.
The companies are helping the internet, transport and government sectors to increase energy efficiency and supporting renewable energy projects using their information and communications technology (ICT).
“Carbon neutrality has by and large become a globally recognised mission, one to which the ICT industry is actively contributing,” Huawei’s chairman Liang Hua said at the company’s sustainability forum in Shenzhen this month. “These days, advancements in ICT are focusing more on using less energy to transmit, process and store more information, while making energy systems more efficient.”
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With climate change becoming a global issue, sustainability has become more urgent for companies in the ICT industry.
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