ict carbon accounting | guy hudson
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Guy Hudson, Convenor
“International network for Carbon Accounting Reporting, and
Reduction in the Built environment “
ICT Workgroup
ICARB
• Positioning: a clear need – to ensure consistent and therefore comparable carbon accounting
• At a formative stage
ICARB
Questions
• What does this mean applied to ICT?
• How do we achieve the objective?
Pushing at an open door
• ISO/BSI, the Carbon Trust and the supply chain Industry initiatives PAS2050• Solving the E-Waste Problem [StEP]• Green Grid• Climate Savers Computing Initiative [CSCI]• The Information Age Partnership [IAP]• Market Transformation Programme [MTP] • Saving the climate @ the speed of light
[SC@SoL]
ICARB Consistent carbon accounting
• Scope is very large
• Deep but very narrow
Divided up into – 10? workgroups
The world according to ICARB2 Dimensions of the problem
Sectors
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Individuals
Communities
Cities
Government
Buildings ICT
Footprinting
Footprinting
1. Boundaries2. Calculation - Energy x Factor3. Opportunities for improvement4. Action5. [Offset]
The Process
3rd Dimensions of the problem
Units, Metrics, Factors
Datasets
Boundaries
For each sector. Each application level - identify parameters
(organisations and projects considered in the sector subcommittees)
Parameters
The ICT Workgroup?
Steering Committee
Sectors
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Parameters
The solution will involve:Open source, Standards –based • Methodologies open and available to all
– Bookshelf technology
• Using current standards for CO2 and CO2e calculations– GHG
– Carbon Trust/DEFRA - PAS2050
– ITIL
=> Meta standard: practical – defining the grey areas
5 Principles for calculating emissions
1. Relevance
2. Completeness
3. Consistency
4. Transparency
5. Accuracy
‘and the greatest of these is consistency’
The Greenhouse Gas ProtocolWorld Resources Institute, report submitted to the IPCC)
Consistency
Use consistent methodologies to allow for meaningful comparisons of emissions over time.
Document any changes to the data, inventory boundary, methods, or any other relevant factors in the time series.
ICT Emissions Calcs• ICT ‘Environments’
–Office–Server Room
• Support Dematerialised GrowthThe Footprinting Process
BoundariesCalculation - Energy x FactorQuantify opportunities for improvementAction[Offset]
ICT Industry - Carbon Culture
Suppliers ICT Co. User Org. Disposal
Embedded Embedded
Operational
End of Life
Dematerialised
ICARB ICT • Purchasing in the supply chain (ITIL?)
– embedded carbon/operational/disposal carbon
• 2 projects– ICT Product embedded carbon– ICT strategic decisions with carbon
• Software choices
• IT environments (eg the desktop) decision making
Each workgroup
• Position paper at the October conference
• Gather data for standards and initiatives in the industry
• Collaborate with other workgroups to define boundaries, share information on useful datasets etc.
ICARB
Questions
• What does this mean applied to ICT?
• How do we achieve the objective?
