Sustainability for the ICT Sector

1. Sustainability for the ICT Sector John Smiciklas MJRD Assessment Inc.

2. Projects • Toolkit for Environmental Sustainability for the ICT Sector • Review of Mobile Handset Eco Ratings • Guiding Principles for Green ICT Procurement

3. Toolkit for Environmental Sustainability for the ICT Sector

4. Toolkit for Environmental Sustainability for the ICT Sector • Research In Motion • Scuola Superiore Sant’Anna of Pisa • Step Initiative • Telecom Italia • Telefónica • Thomson Reuters • United Nations Environmental Programme • United Nations Environmental Programme Basel convention • United Nations University • University of Genova • University of Zagreb • Verizon • Vodafone Ghana Partners: • 3p Institute for Sustainable Management • Alcatel Lucent • BBC • BIO Intelligence Service • BT • CEDARE • Climate Associates • ClimateCHECK • DATEC Technologies • Dell • Ernst & Young • ETRI • ETNO • ETSI • European Broadcasting Union • France Telecom • Fronesys • GHG Management Institute (GHGMI) • Hewlett-Packard • Huawei • Imperial College • Infosys • International Telecommunication Union (ITU) • Mandat International • MicroPro Computers • Microsoft • MJRD Assessment Inc. • National Inter-University Consortium for Telecommunications • Nokia Siemens Networks • PE INTERNATIONAL AG

5. Areas of Focus: • Sustainable Buildings • How ICT companies operate their physical plant • Sustainable ICT in Corporate Organizations • How ICT companies operate their ICT operations • Sustainable Products • How ICT companies design, manufacture and manage end of life for products • Sustainable Services • How ICT companies design and deliver services • End of Life Management • How to secure an environmentally sustainable solution for ICT equipment’s EOL • General Specifications and KPIs • How ICT companies select KPIs for environmental management • Assessment Framework for Environmental Impacts of ICT • An assessment framework for energy/greenhouse gas intensity and environmental impacts of the ICT sector

6. Sustainable Buildings This chapter provides technical guidance on environmentally conscious design, maintenance, repair and operating principles and best practices as to how ICT companies build, operate and maintain their physical facilities. Areas of Focus: • Design and Build Specifications • Building Maintenance, Repair and Operations • Building Improvement and Renovation • Technical Buildings and Outside Plant

7. Sustainable ICT in Corporate Organizations This chapter provides technical guidance on how ICT companies operate their ICT infrastructure and assets. Areas of Focus: • Data Centres • Desktop Infrastructure • Telecoms Infrastructure and Networks • Broadcasting • Future Innovation 

8. Sustainable Products This chapter provides technical guidance on environmentally conscious design principles and best practices as to how ICT companies can provide products that are more “environmentally conscious” throughout their full life cycle. Area of Focus: • Network infrastructure equipment • Environmentally Conscious Product Development • Eco-efficient Manufacturing • Smart Usage • End of Life Treatment • Customer premises equipment • Environment-conscious Design • Eco-efficient Manufacturing • Smart Operations • Responsible End of Life • Life Cycle Assessment (LCA)

9. Sustainable Services This chapter offers both best practices and a checklist in the area of sustainable services. The users of this checklist will be designers of services, organizations involved in the marketing, transmission and use services. Area of Focus: Services • Telecommunications Services • Teleconferencing Services • Music Delivery Services • Broadcast Services • Software Services • ICT Services Sustainability Checklists

10. End of Life Management This chapter aims to give directions on how to secure an environmentally sustainable solution for ICT equipment’s End of Life (EOL) by generating a checklist to allow us to record an increasing awareness on human health and environmental impacts generated by those products/services at this stage of the end of its life cycle. Area of Focus: • End-of-Life Management • General Material Recovery and Recycling Facility Guidelines • Clean Supply Chain and Conflict Minerals • Societal Issues • Economic Aspects and Disassembly for Recycling • Offsetting Opportunities and Mitigation

11. General Specifications and KPIs The chapter defines the importance of selecting Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) for decision making and defines the best process to collect them. Area of Focus: • Environmental KPIs for ICT Organizations • Suggested Process for KPI Definition • Targets Definition

12. Review of Mobile Handset Eco-ratings

13. Report Overview • Eco-Ratings have been developed as a method to communicate the sustainability performance of handsets to consumers • Ratings are based on a number of sustainability categories encompassing • OEM • Supply Chain • Handset • Report provides an analysis of the current state and potential for further work • Report reviewed by major global carriers and OEMs

14. Report Overview • Baseline Analysis of Current Carrier Programs (Orange, Sprint, UL, Vodafone, Telefonica, AT&T , Bell Canada) • Baseline Analysis of OEM disclosures (Apple, Samsung, Nokia, LG, Sony Mobile )

15. Report Overview • Report provides baseline performance and best practices for the potential development of a single common eco-rating scheme • e.g. Energy Efficiency component Baseline : Compatibility with a universal charger scheme Best practice: Measure the energy consumption of the use phase of the handset • To be published: 2nd Green Standards Week – 17-21 September 2012, Paris, France

16. Guiding Principles for Green ICT Procurement

17. Report Overview • Provides direction to ICT companies to promote effective procurement practices with suppliers and customers, to jointly raise the awareness of environmental issues among their business transactions • Systematic guidance to address a sustainable step-by-step procurement process is included, detailing green considerations to be used among purchasing practices of procured products and services.

18. Report Overview • Provides examples from industry on measures taken to enhance sustainability in the procurement process Alcatel-Lucent has developed, and is leading industry consortia effort, on a simplified LCA framework that more efficiently evaluates eco-impact information for ICT products than previous approaches. The framework combines simplified processes to more easily derive environmental information for Information and Communication Technology ICT equipment and assets with a level or precision suited to industry needs” Alcatel-Lucent - Corporate Responsibility Report 2010

19. Report Overview • Procurement based on consistent Life Cycle Assessment considerations • Use standardized methodological frameworks • Critical aspects related to the product/service environmental specifications can be identified, so the final product/service is delivered at the end of the cycle in an environmentally preferred way. • An ICT organization can have a direct effect to better address environmental challenges.

20. More information Contact: Cristina Bueti (greenstandard@itu.int) http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/ess/index.html

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