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Best Practices for Environmental Sustainability for the ICT Sector (ESS)
   Contact: greenstandard@itu.int

The impetus for this project is that the ICT sector is increasingly being asked a number of customers, investors, governments and other stakeholders to report on sustainability performance but there is lack of an agreed upon standardized measurement that would simplify and streamline this reporting specifically for the ICT sector.

The project focuses on development of best practices and a standardized checklist of sustainability requirements specific to the ICT sector that will become a contribution to ITU-T Study Group 5 with the goal of developing a global standard in this area.

The standard provides a set of agreed upon sustainability requirements for ICT companies that allows for a more objective reporting of how sustainability is practiced in the ICT sector in these key areas: sustainable buildings, sustainable ICT, sustainable products, sustainable services, end of life management, general specifications and assessment framework for environmental impacts of the ICT sector.

ITU-T Activities on ICT and Climate Change

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AREAS OF FOCUS PARTNERS

General Overview

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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.

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Sustainable ICT in Corporate Organizations
This chapter provides technical guidance on how ICT companies operate their ICT infrastructure and assets.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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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.

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Assessment Framework for Environmental Impacts of the ICT Sector
This chapter reviews environmental management standards and best practices, and establishes an assessment framework for energy/greenhouse gas intensity and environmental impacts of the ICT sector according to various assessment criteria and assessment targets.

Partners are listed in alphabetical order:
  • 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
  • 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

 

RESOURCES ON ICTs AND CLIMATE CHANGE CONTACT

Our reference site provides links to external resources: background papers, additional information, statistics, and examples, that cover the positive and negative impact that ICTs have on the climate. [ more… ]

Please do not hesitate to contact Ms. Cristina Bueti at greenstandard@itu.int should you be interested in joining this project.



   
       


 

 

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