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Monitoring ICT industry GHG emissions, energy use and climate commitments

Since 2022, ITU and the World Benchmarking Alliance (WBA) have been at the forefront of monitoring GHG emissions, energy use, and climate commitments from 200 leading tech companies. Our annual industry assessment reports provide invaluable insights into corporate climate data and targets, while highlighting best practices for reducing emissions and achieving net-zero operations. Through these reports, we provide actionable recommendations for companies to reduce their environmental footprint and align with climate goals.

The Greening Digital Dashboard enables ITU and partners to track the ICT sector’s climate impact and set science-backed targets. It lays the groundwork for an ITU-led ICT GHG emissions database, supporting global climate goals.

Commitments Towards Green Digital Action

Over 40 tech companies and organizations came together to push for Green Digital Action during COP28 in 2023. Green Digital Action has made progress towards the objective of gathering a strong and efficient group of organizations that agree to implement GHG emissions reductions following ICT 1.5°C trajectories and launch a peer learning working group to support each other with this implementation taking into account different maturity levels. Learn more about the commitments and how you can get involved in efforts to reduce ICT sector GHG emissions here, these include:

Companies commit to setting (or already have set) 1.5 degree aligned science-based targets, to be validated (or already validated) by SBTi, for emissions reduction and commit to reduce accordingly scope 1, 2 and 3 emissions, as well as to create and publish transition plans outlining how decarbonization trajectories and net-zero targets will be achieved.
Companies commit to report data on all GHG emission scopes and categories yearly, publicly and submit results to a public ITU database. When a company reports to CDP, this can be done through the CDP disclosure, making sure the submission is publicly available. When a company does not report to CDP, this can be done by reporting directly to the ITU.