It is widely recognized that the lack of a solid ethical basis for economic action has contributed to the serious challenges currently facing millions of people around the world. With regard to water resources, at the Johannesburg Summit on Sustainable Development (Rio+10), the international community agreed on the integrated water resources management (ICM) model and the measures to be taken to implement it. At the European Council on 27-28 June, EU Heads of State and Government set themselves the goal of reaching agreement on the mechanism before the end of the current european Parliament legislature in 2014. The simulation results were well aligned with the available monitoring data. One would think that the parties to the conflict would be more inclined to reach an agreement if they know that they only have so much time. The ECTS system is based on three key elements: information (on programmes and studies), mutual agreement (between partner institutions and the student) and the use of ECTS points (to indicate the workload of students). It has therefore not yet been possible to reach agreement on a common methodological framework for measuring, monitoring and reporting the energy consumption of data centres and telecommunications networks. . . .