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By Sarah Falson | Thursday | 18/10/2007
Telstra is claiming businesses and households can help to reduce up to five per cent of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions by 2015, saving $6.6 billion a year, by taking advantage of opportunities offered by telecommunications networks such as high-speed broadband. The telecommunications company has released a report which identifies seven key ways businesses and individuals can avoid or reduce rather than simply offset their carbon emissions, at a rate which would reportedly bring local savings in step with the Kyoto Protocol target.
One of the key ways to achieve this goal is for more Australians to work from home taking advantage of high speed broadband services, therefore lessening emissions from automobiles.
Telstra commissioned climate change experts to quantify the possible carbon and dollar savings that could be achieved by following the steps outlined in the report titled Towards a High-Bandwidth, Low-Carbon Future: Telecommunications-based Opportunities to Reduce Greenhouse Gas Emissionsis. Independent experts including World Wildlife Fund (WWF) also confirmed the research.
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