The World Telecommunication Standardization Assembly (Johannesburg, 2008), considering that the issue of climate change is rapidly emerging as a global concern and requires global collaboration; that the United Nations Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change (IPCC) estimated that global greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions had risen by more than 70 per cent since 1970, having an effect on global warming, changing weather patterns, rising sea-levels, desertification, shrinking ice cover and other long-term effects.