ICT Solutions | Narrated by Jeffrey Sachs

As the world faces increasing environmental challenges, the imperative for shifting economic development onto a green, resource-efficient growth pathway is clear. The increased use of information and communication technology (ICT) can reduce energy use, cut greenhouse gas emissions and build resilience to the effects of climate change.

This video is narrated by Jeffrey Sachs, Director of the Earth Institute at Columbia University. It tells the story of the five winning activities under the 2016 Momentum for Change Awards ICT Solutions category:

• Climate Right | Sweden: This project enables people in Uppsala to track their climate impact through their choice of food, mode of transport and way of living, encouraging them to live in a climate friendly way.

• Connected Mangroves | Malaysia: Ericsson combines cloud, machine-to-machine and mobile broadband to help the local community in Selangor restore mangrove plantations.

• Project Sunroof | USA: This project, introduced by Google, enables tens of millions of potential solar customers from across the U.S. to evaluate if their home is suitable for solar and how much they could save on electricity.

• Mapping for Rights | Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Democratic Republic of the Congo, Gabon, Ghana, Peru: This initiative of the Rainforest Foundation UK supports forest peoples to counter harmful extractive industry and advocate for legal reforms by equipping them with low-cost technologies to map and monitor their lands, and making this data available on an online platform.

• SOLshare | Bangladesh: The world’s first ICT-enabled peer-to-peer electricity trading network for rural households with and without solar home systems.

Learn more about each of the ICT Solutions winners here