The United Nations Climate Conference (COP-29), which lasted for two weeks in Baku, the capital of Azerbaijan, and concluded last week, issued a declaration covering the issue of digital and telecom sectors along with other diverse aspects of climate change.

The COP-29 Declaration on Green Digital Action, endorsed by more than a thousand stakeholders, emphasizes the role that digital technologies can play in climate action and the various aspects of environmental impact that such technologies can bring.

This declaration, which is considered to be as important as new rules for climate investment and carbon credits equal to 300 billion US dollars by 2035, has been approved by 11 thousand 70 companies, civil society organizations, international and regional organizations along with the governments of 75 countries.

Secretary of the Ministry of Forests and Environment Deepak Kumar Kharal said that Nepal also had no objection to this and gave approval for approval. "We received the manifesto bill two months before the conference, and after we responded that we had no objection to it, it was deemed approved," he said.

The government representatives of Nepal participating in the conference do not know much about what is the subject of this manifesto, how it will affect Nepal after approving it, or how Nepal's technology and telecommunication sector can be made responsible for climate-related issues, how technology can be used to reduce climate change.

'Many parallel discussion sessions were going on in the conference, we could not participate in all of them due to the lack of manpower,' Sindhuprasad Dhungana, joint secretary of the Ministry of Forests and Environment, who was given the main responsibility for the conference, said, 'Sometimes we may have attended meetings related to a manifesto, which was approved by the organizers. They can also tell.'' Even though it is seen, the necessary seriousness is not seen in the preparation of Nepal's government representatives as usual.

'Nepal's government representatives have a tendency to sign international treaties,' he said, 'the list of employees going to the conference is decided only a week before and due to the lack of preparation, it seems that the representatives of Nepal just went to the conference.' Bhusal is not able to maintain the necessary seriousness.

"In this conference, small and less developed countries do not talk much," he said, "Nepal is in the group of less developed countries." According to the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), which spearheaded the creation of the COP-29 Declaration on Green Digital Action, this declaration calls for the development of climate-friendly digital technologies amid rising global temperatures and climate-related risks. aims to promote

ITU estimates that 1.5 to 4 percent of the world's total emissions will come from this sector due to the increasing impact of digital technology, leaps in artificial intelligence (AI), and other infrastructure and technologies in the telecom sector.

The 'Green Digital Action' manifesto has emphasized the growing contribution of digital technology and telecom sector to many aspects of the economy, including climate monitoring, early warning systems, green energy production and dissemination, to achieve some of the goals of the 2030 Agenda and the Paris Agreement. The manifesto also contains important provisions on expanding access to technology to the more than two and a half billion people who are still offline.

'To tackle the climate crisis, we can and must reduce the environmental impact of digital technologies by harnessing the incredible contribution that digital technologies can make,' ITU Secretary General Doreen Bogdan-Martin said during the conference. There is an opportunity to confront the crisis and call for the digital industry to take responsibility for its environmental impact.' Systems reform and the development of advanced digital technologies will play a key role in sustainable solutions globally, the ITU statement said.