Impacts of ubiquitous society on the global warming problem in 2010

Abstract

The authors used a macroeconomic modeling framework called a computable general equilibrium model to estimate the potential impact of the progress of ubiquitous networking technologies on CO/sub 2/ emissions in Japan. Four scenarios of the effects of ubiquitous networking technologies were made in Japan in 2010. The four scenarios correspond to four different levels of the progress of a ubiquitous networking society. In each scenario, the electricity consumed by electronics products, effects of ubiquitous applications on energy use, and the market size of ubiquitous application services were estimated. The results indicate that advanced ubiquitous networking technologies could potentially reduce the CO/sub 2/ emissions produced by the Japanese economy by approximately 3%.