Output Report on ITU-D Question 6/2 Information and communication technologies and the environment
Acknowledgements
Table of contents
List of tables and figures
Executive summary
Abbreviations and acronyms
Chapter 1 – Background on e-waste
Chapter 2 – Education and awareness on e-waste
     2.1 The importance of disposing of e-waste properly and the consequences of not doing so for the environment and human health
          2.1.1 Environmental consequences
          2.1.2 Human consequences
          2.1.3 Socio-economic consequences
     2.2 What consumers can do to reduce the production of e-waste (the 4 Rs)
          2.2.1 Reflect
          2.2.2 Reduce
          2.2.3 Reuse
          2.2.4 Recycle
     2.3 What needs to be done to manage e-waste generated by bulk and individual consumers
     2.4 Information on e-waste drop-off locations
Chapter 3 – E-waste value chain and management
     3.1 Range of electrical and electronic equipment to be recycled
     3.2 Organization of e-waste management system
          3.2.1 Value chain
          3.2.2 Roles
     3.3 Overview of the situation in some countries in the Africa region
     3.4 Case studies on e-waste
Chapter 4 – Frontier technologies and climate-change mitigation
     4.1 Background
          4.1.1 Examples of impacts of climate change in the world
          4.1.2 Events leading towards climate change
          4.1.3 Agencies involved in climate-change mitigation
     4.2 New technologies, systems and applications to monitor the climate and reduce its impact
          4.2.1 Big data
          4.2.2 Artificial intelligence
          4.2.3 Machine learning
          4.2.4 Artificial neural networks
          4.2.5 Data mining
     4.3 Country case studies on new technologies for climate-change monitoring
          4.3.1 Mitigation activities against the impact of climate change (India)
          4.3.2 Environmental information sensor networks and other case studies in Shiojiri City (Japan)
Chapter 5 – Climate-change countermeasures
     5.1 Best-practice guidelines on climate-change monitoring and impact reduction
     5.2 Technology for climate-change monitoring and impact reduction
     5.3 Role of Earth observation on climate-change monitoring and impact reduction
Chapter 6 – Conclusions
     6.1 Future of e-waste
     6.2 Climate change, the way ahead
Annexes
     Annex 1: Bibliography and online resources
     Annex 2: List of contributions and liaison statements received on Question 6/2