Within the Standardization Sector, Study Group 5 (SG5) is responsible for studying ICT environmental aspects of electromagnetic phenomena and climate change.

Q 17/5 - Energy efficiency for ICT equipment and Climate Change standards harmonization

Q 18/5 - Methodology of environmental impact assessment of ICT

Q 19/5 - Power feeding systems

Q 21/5 - Environmental protection and recycling of ICT equipment/facilities

Q 22/5 - Setting up a low cost sustainable telecommunication infrastructure for rural communications in developing countries

Q 23/5 - Using ICTs to enable countries to adapt to climate change

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The International Telecommunication Union (ITU), the United Nations Environmental Programme (UNEP)/ Secretariat of the Basel Convention and the United Nations University (UNU), in collaboration with the Solving the E-waste Problem (StEP) Initiative and the Center for Environment and Development for the Arab Region and Europe (CEDARE), are pleased to invite you to take part in a joint survey on e-waste to promote exchange of information and future cooperation in the field.

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ITU-T is coordinating a project to establish environmental sustainability guidelines for the ICT sector. The project will provide ICT organizations with a checklist of sustainability requirements; guiding them in efforts to improve their eco-efficiency, and ensuring fair and transparent sustainability reporting.

The project deals with the following aspects of environmental sustainability in ICT organizations: sustainable buildings, sustainable ICT, sustainable products, sustainable services, end of life management, general specifications and an assessment framework for environmental impacts of the ICT sector.

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An ITU-UNESCO/IOC-WMO Joint Task Force has been created to investigate the potential of using submarine telecommunications cables for ocean and climate monitoring and disaster warning.

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• Using Submarine Communications Networks to Monitor the Climate (November 2010)
• ICT as an Enabler for Smart Water Management (October 2010)
• Batteries for portable ICT devices (February 2010)
• NGNs and energy efficiency (August 2008)
• Remote collaboration tools (March 2008)
• ICTs and Climate Change (December 2007)

• Technical Session on "How ICTs can alleviate climate change" (November 2010)
• Technical session on ICTs and climate change (October 2009)

• ITU Resolution 182 on "The role of telecommunications/information and communication technologies on climate change and the protection of the environment" (Guadalajara, 2010)
• ITU-T Resolution 73 – “Information and communications technologies and climate change” (Johannesburg, 2008)
• Dynamic Coalition on Internet and Climate Change (DCICC)
• Call for action to COP 16 from the ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2010

• How ICTs Can Help Tackle Climate Change
  eLAC2015 Newsletter
• ICT is vital for reducing greenhouse gas emissions
  Guardian's Low carbon ICT blog
• Time to recognise the power of ICT for environmental change
  Guardian's Low carbon ICT blog
• We need a level playing field to measure carbon emissions from ICT
  Guardian's Low carbon ICT blog
• Enabling a low carbon future: the key role of ICTs to address climate change
  ITU Plenipotentiary Conference 2010 (PP-10) Side-event Sessions, Guadalajara, Mexico, 13 October 2010
• ICTs as a Tool to Combat Climate Change
  Congress on Information Technology and Telecommunications in the Bicentennial, Buenos Aires, Argentina, 21-22 September 2010
• ICTs and Climate Change
  UNFCCC, Bonn, Germany, 06 May 2010
• ICTs and Climate Change
  UNIDO, Vienna, Austria, 05 May 2010
• Opening Remarks
  ICT4EE Forum, Brussels, Belgium
• Opening of Study Group 5 (Environment and Climate Change) WP 3
  Geneva, Switzerland, 19 January 2010

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