Transcript ITU and Climate Change

ITU
ICT and Climate Change
Hiroshi Ota and Cristina Bueti
13 July 2010
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ITU and Climate Change
“Climate Change is a global challenge that the
world cannot lose”.
Dr Hamadoun I. Touré
ITU Secretary-General
“Climate change is the defining challenge of our era.
ITU’s work to cut greenhouse gas emissions, develop
standards and use ‘e-environment’ systems can
speed up the global shift to a low-carbon economy”.
"ITU is one of the very important stakeholders in the
area of climate change."
Mr Ban Ki-moon
United Nations Secretary-General
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
ITU and UN Delivering As
One on Climate Change
 ITU is contributing to the effort of the UN system to
“deliver as one” to address climate change and is taking the
necessary steps to deepen the global understanding of
the relation between ICTs and climate change.
 Read the Report: "Acting on Climate Change: The UN
System Delivering as One"
 ITU is co-facilitator in issues related to WSIS Action Line
C7: e-environment
 Side events and press conference in Copenhagen with Mr. Ban
Ki-moon, UN Secretary-General in Copenhagen in December
2009
 Ongoing Collaboration with UNEP, WIPO and UNIDO
 On 5 June 2010, ITU together with UNEP and other partners
celebrated the World Environment Day
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
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ITU and UNFCCC
 Ongoing role in UNFCCC process
 Promotion of role of ICTs in reducing GHGs
 Side events and press conference in
Barcelona and Copenhagen
 Partners: WIPO,GeSI, WWF, WMO, OECD,
UNFCCC, Analysys Mason, Cisco, Microsoft, NTT,
Government representatives from Japan,
Ecuador, UK, etc.
 ISeeT Kiosk – Daily briefings from high
level ICT business people
 High level meetings
 ITU, partner of the Nairobi Programme
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
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ITU is Building Knowledge and
Promoting Visibility
 TECHWATCH Reports on CC and positive impact of
new technologies
 Next Generation Networks, Intelligent Transport
Systems, etc.
 Major Symposia on ICTs and CC
 2008: Kyoto and London
 2009: Quito and Seoul (virtual event)
 2010: Egypt (8-9 November 2010)
 ITU-T pioneering energy efficient work methods
 Paperless meetings, on-line work tools, virtual symposia.
 ITU-T leading Dynamic Coalition on Internet
and Climate Change as part of the Internet
Governance Forum (16 September 2010)
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
Radiocommunication (ITU-R)
 Monitor climate change by:
 Provides spectrum and orbital
resources for satellite remotesensing
 Providing key climate data via
radio-based applications (e.g.
RFIDs)
 Work closely with WMO
 ITU/WMO Handbook: Use of Radio
Spectrum for Meteorology
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
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Development (ITU-D)
 E-environment Toolkit for
policymakers gives principles
and guidelines for the
development of applications
and services in the area of the
environment.
 Will help countries to assess
the contribution that ICTs can
make to reduce GHG emissions
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
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ITU-T Study Group 5
“Environment & Climate Change”
 Working Party 3 (WP3/5) “ICT and
Climate Change”
 Continues output (four deliverables) of
ITU-T Focus Group on ICT and CC (July
08 – April 09)
 All ITU-T study groups to examine
impact of recommendations on climate
change
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
Five work areas
 Coordination and Planning of ICT&CC related
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standardization (Question 17 of ITU-T SG 5)
Methodology of environmental impact assessment
of ICT (Q18/5)
Power feeding systems (Q19/5)
Data collection for Energy Efficiency for ICTs over
the lifecycle (Q20/5)
Environmental protection and recycling of ICT
equipments/facilities (Q21/5)
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
ITU-T Joint Coordination Activity (JCA)
 Objectives:
 to co-ordinate
 across ITU-T study groups
 and with ITU-R and ITU-D
 to seek co-operation from external
organizations including non-ITU
member organizations
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
Standard for a universal
charger for mobile phones
 “Universal power adapter and charger
solution for mobile terminals and other
ICT devices” (ITU-T Recommendation
L.1000)
 specifies general requirements
 covers charger for mobile phones
 Future version will cover other ICT
devices
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
ITU’s universal charger standard
Instead of this …
… have this:
Recommendation L.1000
Approved March 2010
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
Standard on e-waste
 “Classification of outside plant
waste” (ITU-T Recommendation
L.24) was updated
 Helps to promote recycling
(Question 21/5)
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
New work items for standard GHG
(Green House Gas) measurement and
evaluation methods
 Methodology for environmental impact
assessment of
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ICT
ICT
ICT
ICT
goods and services
projects
within organisations
within countries
(Question 18/15)
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
Methodology
 Common methodology for
measuring ICT carbon footprint
 Without, it will be impossible to
provide meaningful comparisons
 Helps to establish the business case
to go green
 Over 20 organisations participate in
the ITU group
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
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New work items for promoting
recycling and e-waste reduction
 The use of life cycle analysis in
outside plant
 Recycling of copper and optical
fibre cables
 Communication formats for
recycling information of rare
metals in ICT products
(Question 21/5)
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
New work items for efficient power
feeding systems within e.g. a data center
 Architecture of power feeding systems
 Characterizations and specifications of
power feeding system, especially for
Higher Voltage DC system
 Methodologies for evaluating the
performance of energy feeding and its
environmental impact
 Safety for humans and equipment
(Question 19/5)
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
Related Links
 ITU and climate change
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http://www.itu.int/themes/climate/
ITU-T and climate change
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
ITU-T Study Groups
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/studygroups/index.html
ITU events on climate change:
http://www.itu.int/themes/climate/meetings.html
ITU Symposia on ICTs and Climate Change
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/worksem/climatechange/
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
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Thank you!
{hiroshi.ota, cristina.bueti}@itu.int
http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/
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