ICT and the Environment in Developing Countries: An Overview of Opportunities and Developments (Green ICT, Energy and Climate Change‪)‬

* ICT and the knowledge-based economy A major feature of the knowledge-based economy is the impact that ICTs have had on industrial structure, with a rapid growth of services and a relative decline of manufacturing. Services are typically less energy intensive and less polluting, so among those countries with a high and increasing share of services, we often see a declining energy intensity of production--with the emergence of the Knowledge Economy ending the old linear relationship between output and energy use (i.e. partially de-coupling growth and energy use).