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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.
“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 CooperationProgress since 2023
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2023 — Launch of GDA Standards pillar and working group
A peer-learning working group was launched to strengthen industry and country collaboration on the implementation of environmental sustainability standards. -
2023 — Joint statement by the Worlds Standards Cooperation
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. -
2023 — Action Plan
At 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. -
2024 — Standards matrix
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. -
2024 — Regional Workshops
With the support of the Ministry of Internal Affairs and Communications (MIC) of Japan, a project was launched to organize 4 regional workshops over the course of 2024 and 2025 to share good practices, increase awareness and support the implementation of environmental sustainability standards.
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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