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Committed to connecting the world

Overview of Working Party 3/5

“ICT and climate change”

Paolo GemmaChairman ITU-T WP3 of Study Group 5

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ITU-T SG5“Environment and climate change”

WP1/5Damage

prevention and safety

WP2/5 Electromagnetic fields: emission,

immunity and human exposure

Q 12 Terminology

WP3/5 ICT and climate change

Structure of ITU-T Study Group 5

5 Questions 6 Questions 7 Questions


Working Party 3/5“ICT and climate change”

WP3/5 is responsible for studies relating to ICT, environment and climate change, development of methodologies for evaluating the ICT effects on climate change and publishing guidelines for using ICTs in an eco-friendly way.

Work areas:Q13/5 - Environmental impact reduction including e-waste Q14/5 - Setting up a low cost sustainable telecommunication infrastructure for rural communications in developing countries Q15/5 - ICTs and adaptation to the effects of climate change Q16/5 - Leveraging and enhancing the ICT Environmental sustainability Q17/5 - Energy efficiency for the ICT sector and harmonization of environmental standards Q18/5 - Methodologies for the assessment of environmental impact of ICT Q19/5 - Power feeding systems

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Question 13/5Environmental impact reduction including e-waste

Brief Description Study the safety and

environmental performance associated with ICTs, including the avoidance of hazardous materials and final disposal

Ensure that the ICTs cause minimum environmental and health impact

Minimize and mitigate the effect of e-waste

work program

Main Tasks Motivate ITU members to

share experiences and spread knowledge related to environmental sustainability aspects

Determine processes to minimize the environmental impact

Study solutions to mitigate e-waste. UCS/CPS, rare metals, battery, conflict material……

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http://www.itu.int/ITU-T/workprog/wp_search.aspx?q=13/5


ITU-T L.1000

“Universal power adapter and charger solution for mobile terminals and other ICT hand held devices” (Recommendation ITU-T L.1000)

A paramount step towards e-waste reduction!

Saves 82,000 tons of e-waste per year

Saves at least 13.6 million tonnes of CO2 emissions annually

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ITU-T L.1001

“External universal power adapter solutions for ICT equipment for stationary use” (Recommendation ITU-T L.1001)

Saves 300,000 tonnes of e-waste annually

Reduces the energy consumption and greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions of external power supplies by between 25% and 50%

Approved!

Contributions are needed to develop Universal Power Adapter for portable devices (Phase 2)

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“A method to provide recycling information of rare metals in ICT goods” (Recommendation ITU-T L.1100)

Outlines key considerations in all phases of the recycling process, and provides guidelines as to how organisations may fairly and transparently report on rare metal recycling.

ITU-T L.1100

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Question 14/5 Setting up a low cost sustainable telecommunication infrastructure for rural communications in developing

countries

Brief Description Setting up a low cost

sustainable telecommunication infrastructure for rural communications in developing countries

Existing systems do not meet challenges in developing countries and are not mass deployed in rural area.

A suitable set of system requirements should be developed addressing the identified rural challenges.

work program

Main Tasks Develop guidance on addressing

challenges of setting up sustainable telecommunication infrastructure in rural areas of developing nations.

Develop system requirements, emphasizing energy efficient systems.

Take into consideration power requirements given that deployment of telecommunication systems in areas without access to electricity grid.

Taking into consideration the need for resilient mobile networks in all countries for disaster situations (e.g. hurricane, tropical storm, etc.).

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Question 15/5ICTs and adaptation to the effects of climate change

Brief Description Using ICT to better enable

countries to adapt to climate change

Establishing a robust telecommunications infrastructure for extreme climate conditions

Helping countries adapt to the negative effects of climate change using ICT

Establishing links at regional and national levels

work program

Main Tasks Drafting deliverables

L.adaptation and Infrastructure (Best practices for countries to use ICT in adapting to the effects of climate change)

L.Repeater (Best practices for submarine repeaters in the dual role of communications and environmental monitoring services)

Report on Portal requirements (Specifying requirements and initial content for a new ITU-T portal on ICT and adaptation to climate change)

Establishing requirements via questionnaires and analysis

Seeking cooperation with expert groups Encouraging ICT industry involvement in

climate change adaptation

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Question 16/5 Leveraging and enhancing the ICT

Environmental sustainability Brief Description ITU-T SG5

Recommendations allow organizations to estimatd report their environmental impacts Eco-specifications and eco-

rating guidance are needed to complement these methodologies

Recommendations showed also a need to clarify the use of emission factors

work program

Main Tasks Develop Recommendations

on a methodology to assess the added value of an eco-rating programme.

investigate what are the principles, benefits, drawbacks underlying the creation of a worldwide database containing key indicators and/or emission factors?

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Question 17/5Energy Efficiency for the ICT sector and harmonization of

environmental standards

Brief Description Definition of measurement

methods, metrics/KPI and reference values for different technologies

Sharing of best practices for ICT’s energy efficiency enhancements

Analysis of the most energy efficient architectures and solutions in support of smart grids

Complement and harmonize ICT and environmental standards developed by other SGs and Std Bodies

work program

Main Tasks Develop Recommendations in

the in the field of energy efficiency (see next slide)

Develop best practices and best reference cases

Provide and maintain an overview of key mitigation technologies

Coordinate with other SGs and other bodies on a regular basis to ensure closest alignment

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ITU-T L.1300 and L.1310

ITU-T L.1300 “Best practices for green data centers”

Definition of best practices for: Data Center utilization, management and planning; ICT equipment and services; power and cooling equipment

Detailed real case studies reported in a specific Supplement

ITU-T L.1310 “Energy efficiency metrics and measurement for TLC equipment”

Metrics and measurement methods defined for broadband wireline/wireless equipment and small networking devices

These metrics allow for comparisons of equipments within the same class (e.g. equipments using the same technologies)

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Question 18/5Methodologies for the assessment of environmental

impact of ICT

Brief Description Question 18/5 aims to develop

common methodologies that allow objective, transparent and practical assessments of ICT environmental impacts, at : goods, networks and services

level, organizations level, projects level, cities level and countries level

work program

Main Tasks Further develop / finalize

Recommendations L.methodology ICT projects, L.methodology ICT in cities and L.methodology ICT in countries

Revise existing Recommendations L.1410 and L.1420

Develop, and gather in a supplement, specific additions to L.1410 and/or L.methodology ICT projects

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Question 18/5Published Recommendations

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• L.1400: Overview and general principles of methodologies for assessing the environmental impact of information and communication technologies

• L.1410: Methodology for the assessment of the environmental impact of information and communication technology goods, networks and services

• L.1420: Methodology for energy consumption and greenhouse gas emissions impact assessment of information and communication technologies in organizations

• L.1430: Methodology for assessment of the environmental impact of information and communication technology greenhouse gas and energy projects (consented)


Question Q19/5 Power feeding systems

Brief Description With internet, more ICT

equipment (routers, servers, switches) with higher rack power density (tens of kW)

Unified power interface such as the higher voltage DC replacing Telecom DC 48V and AC UPS for higher efficiency and reliability

Other advantages: smaller cable and lighter weight, flexibility, better life cycle : less use of materials, less CO2 emission in manufacturing and use, …

Simple use of renewable energy (PV, wind, biofuels) and storage for smartgrid

work program

Main TasksRecommendations:- Specifications of the power feeding

system (DC, other ?);- system configuration, architecture, and

cable distribution;- methodologies for evaluating

performance of feeding systems and their environmental impact.

Studies:- enabling use of renewable and

alternative energy sources;- coordination of these sources and DC

interface;

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ITU-T L.1200

Recommendation ITU-T L.1200 “Direct current power feeding interface up to 400V at the input to telecommunications and ICT equipment”

The Recommendation specifies direct current power feeding with interface direct current 260V to 400V at the power input to ICT equipment which can offer many potential benefits: simple power chain low maintenance modularity and power scalability high reliability high energy efficiency (gain of 5 to 20% energy consumption

compared to different existing best in class powering solutions) low cost at same performance level

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Moving from Equipment to network level energy efficiency.

equipment specification

Router ES 203 136 ATIS-0600015.03.2013 L.1300

Transport ATIS-0600015.01.2009 ES 203 184 L.1300

Broadband access ES 203 215 ATIS-0600015.07.2013 L.1300

BTS TS 102 706 ATIS-0600015.06.2011 L.1300

Core ES 201 554

Server ATIS-0600015.01.2009

Small networking devices L.1300

Network level metrics and measurement methods

Why?• Carbon Tax.• Operator to demonstrate

the efficient evolutions of their network. Move the discussion from energy consumption to Energy efficiency


Waste reduction

Universal adapterETSI (adapter for mobile Phone+ terminal) ITU (adapter for mobile Phone+ terminal)

working on adapter for portable (tablet notebok) (actual situation is a “battle” between some USA company and the rest of the world.

CENELEC (adapter for mobile Phone) Universal battery

New activity pushed from China/FT/TI actually on Green battery definition…. Possible impact on terminal product can be

big………. WHAT is a green Battery??????


ICT impact Different activities:

Methodologies to establish the impact of ICT and the benefit of using ICT in other sectors

Common activity of ETSI EE and ITU to write a common standard on the LCA of ICT product and service.

A lot of push on this from EU commission as they like to have standards to determine the impact of ICT for ……..

Carbon Tax Customer product selection……..

Operator are starting to ask data about the CO2 emission of product… TI, Vodafone, WIND

In Future ECOLABEL

ITU are working on recommendation on ECOLABEL for ICT product

IN US ULE (UL Environment) is a standard methodologies published by UL and adopted by AT&T for terminal product


Impact on different technologies

SDN/FN Network level metrics

Routing based on Energy efficiency not only on traffic

performance

Energy monitoring


Impact on different technologies

ENERGY EFFICIENCYNew Metrics Measurement methodsNew limits

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Standard Energy Monitoring


Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities:

Established at SG5 meeting in Geneva, 29 January to 7 February 2013

As an open platform for smart-city stakeholders

1st meeting held on 8 May 2013 in Turin, Italy

Main tasks and deliverables: Defining the role of ICTs in environmentally

sustainable smart cities, and identifying the ICT systems necessary to the development of a Smart Sustainable City;

Collecting and documenting information on existing smart city initiatives and technical specifications, focusing in particular on the identification of standardization gaps;

Identifying or developing a set of Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to gauge the success of smart-city ICT deployments;

Establishing relationships and liaison mechanisms with other bodies engaged in smart-city studies and development;

Identifying future smart-city standardization projects to be undertaken by its parent group, ITU-T Study Group 5;

Developing a roadmap for the ICT sector’s contribution to Smart Sustainable Cities, providing cohesion to the development and application of technologies and standards.

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Focus Group on Smart Water Management:

Established by the ITU-T TSAG meeting in Geneva, 4-7 June 2013

Will work in close collaboration with the FG-SSC

Main tasks and deliverables: Collect and document information on national,

regional and international smart water management initiatives; reporting on current activities and technical specifications.

Specify the roles to be played by ICTs in smart water management.

Develop a list mapping key stakeholders involved in the area of ICTs and smart water management.

Develop Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) to assess the impact achieved through the use of ICTs in water-management systems.

Develop a set of methodologies for estimating the impact of ICTs on water conservation.

Identify water-management ICT applications and services with the potential to ensure interoperability and the benefits of economies of scale.

Draft technical reports that address standardization gaps and identify new standardization work items to be taken up by its parent group, ITU-T Study Group 5 (Environment and climate change).

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Upcoming workshop and meetings

Greening the Future: Bridging the Standardization Gap on Environmental Sustainability Colombo, Sri Lanka, 3-4 October 2013

ITU/CITEL Workshop on Environmentally sound management of E-waste Mendoza, Argentina, 9 October 2013

ITU-T Study Group 5 meetingLima, Peru, 2-13 December 2013

Focus Group on Smart Sustainable Cities meetingLima, Peru, 6 December 2013

Focus Group on Smart Water Management meetingLima, Peru, 10 December 2013

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