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At COP28, Huawei Executive Says Carbon

Neutrality Will Trigger Revolutionary Change

A senior Huawei executive says the that have emerged and opportunities for Development at Columbia University,
integration of the digital and energy worlds collaboration that could be leveraged. cooperation is key to enable the green
will improve energy efficiency and resource Yang cited several Huawei innovations transition and sustainable development.
allocation worldwide. Addressing a session that lowered ICT’s carbon footprint. These “We need cooperative approaches, we need
of the Global Innovation Hub (UGIH) of the included fully liquid-cooled supercharging great companies like Huawei that provide the
United Nations Framework Convention terminals that are able to charge EVs at technologies, and then we need solutions
on Climate Change (UNFCCC) at the 28th the rate of one kilometer per second; the to scale them up,” Sachs said. Referring
Conference of the Parties (COP28), hosted world’s second largest PV plant in Qinghai, to the UN Sustainable Development Goals
by the UAE, Charles Yang, Senior Vice China where Huawei helped complete grid (SDGs), Mohan Munasinghe, former Vice
President at Huawei, said opportunities connection; and Huawei’s contribution Chair of the UN Intergovernmental Panel
brought about by carbon neutrality will to powering the world’s first 100 percent on Climate Change and co-recipient of
trigger revolutionary technological and renewables-powered city as part of the the 2007 Nobel Peace Prize, said digital
socioeconomic change. “We’re working Red Sea Energy Storage project in Saudi technology is both part of SDG 9 (Industry,
to not just enhance the ICT sector via Arabia. Mobile operators will also be able innovation and infrastructure) and the key
technological innovations, but also build to lend a hand in producing energy, he to SDG 13 (Climate action). “All of the goals
innovative systems to help achieve the said. “If they could leverage the 10 million have to be dealt with in an integrated way.
common goal of carbon neutrality,” he said. mobile base stations globally and become You cannot deal with carbon neutrality and
Yang spoke at a UNFCCC UGIH session energy producers, that will significantly climate by itself,” Munasinghe said, adding:
entitled “Innovative, Digitally Enabled Green reduce carbon emissions.” For Jeffrey “Digital technology supports inclusive
Transition.” The panel sought to shed light Sachs, President of the UN Sustainable green technologies, promotes industrial
on new ways of thinking and doing in the Development Solutions Network and infrastructure that increases economic
green transition, as well as new cases Director of the Center for Sustainable activity… and will lead us to eco-civilization
in the 21st Century.” Alexandre Reis Siqueira
Freire, a Commissioner of Brazil’s telecoms
regulator Anatel, provided a case in point.
Speaking at the same panel, he introduced
the sustainable and integrated Amazon
program, or PICE, which consists of 11
fluvial optical fiber backbone networks
with nearly 9,000 km of extension. The
program has benefited more than four
million inhabitants in Brazil, Freire noted,
adding that “the development of advanced
telecommunication infrastructure in
the Amazon region shall promote the
integration of the communities and digital
economy.”

Huawei Moves Ahead with French Factory

Huawei detailed a move to build its first delayed by the Covid-19 (coronavirus) they would not be able to renew licenses
telecoms equipment plant in Europe, with pandemic. The company declined to once they expire. The UK was one of the
work on the France-based facility to begin comment on the news. Huawei has been first European countries to ban the use of
in 2024 and operations to commence by hit with a number of restrictions on its 5G the vendor’s products in next-generation
end-2025, China Daily reported. Zhang telecoms equipment in Europe since 2020. networks. Huawei unveiled plans to invest
Minggang, deputy GM of Huawei France, Sweden’s telecoms watchdog barred local €150 million in a cloud hub in the Republic
reportedly told French media the €200 operators participating in a 5G auction from of Ireland in 2022.
million factory would create 500 jobs. using products made by Huawei and ZTE.
Huawei announced plans for a factory in The French government warned mobile
northeast France in 2020, but work was operators deploying Huawei 5G equipment

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