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Drive the adoption of international green standards
International standards, guided by sustainability principles, play a crucial role in addressing the climate crisis by maximizing energy efficiency, reducing e-waste, and cutting emissions. Collaboration between governments and the private sector to harmonize regulatory frameworks is essential to encourage investments aligned with climate goals.
At COP28, leading international standards developers – ITU, ISO and IEC – issued a joint statement on the importance of sustainability being built into technical standards development by design, and standards helping the world reach net-zero emissions and achieve a resource-efficient circular and low-carbon economy.
“As the world’s leading developers of international standards, we pledge to uphold the principles that allow sustainability to be built into their development by design, and to delivering the standards that make both business and environmental sense.”
Read the joint statement by the World Standards CooperationAt COP28, the GDA Green Standards working group launched an Action Plan outlining proactive steps for leveraging standards to foster sustainability and drive climate action within the ICT sector.
At COP29, the WG built on this effort and identified operational areas and technical domains to structure a matrix, which resulted in a 4×6 matrix. In addition, the group labelled published standards within the matrix.Actions for leveraging standards for climate action
Join a GDA Working Group
The peer-learning working group aims to strengthen industry and country collaboration on the implementation of environmental sustainability standards.
Contact green@itu.int to join >Join existing standardization efforts
Join existing standardization efforts such as ITU-T SG5 “Environment, EMF and Circular Economy.”
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