The Future Impact of ICT on Environmental Sustainability

INTRODUCTORY NOTE

This paper is submitted to the EU-US Scientific Seminar on New Technology Foresight, Forecasting & Assessment Methods, 13-14 May 2004, Seville, Spain, under the theme, “Models and voices: how to successfully integrate human (and expert) judgements and formal analytical methods?”.

It is based on a project commissioned by the Institute for Prospective Technology Studies (IPTS) and draws on a number of reports that are publicly available on the IPTS website, namely:

Task One interim report – Identification and global description of economic sectors
Task Two interim report – Script
Task Three interim report - Scenarios
Task Four interim report – Refinement and quantification
Task Five interim report – Policy recommendations
Synthesis Report.