Ericsson Key activities
addressing climate change
ITU Symposium on ICT, the Environment &
Climate Change
Carlo Alloni
President Ericsson North east africa
inflection pOINTS
1771The industrial
revolution
Two different periods of each
technological revolution
INSTALLATION
DEPLOYMENT
1829Steam, coal,
iron & railways
1875Steel & heavy
engineering
Inflection
point
Automobile, oil,
mass production
More efficiently
solving old
problems winners among
old players
1971-
20-30 years
1908-
IT &
telecommunication
Applying paradigm
to innovate across
society – new
winners
20-30 years
New opportunities in the digital society
Source: Professor Carlota Perez
Universities of Cambridge, Tallinn and Sussex
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Anything that benefits from network
connection will be connected
Billion
50
5
THINGS
Inflection
points for
our
industry
PEOPLE
PLACES
0.5
1975
2000
Source: Ericsson
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2025
Addressing The climate challenge
› ICT responsible for 2% of
global CO2 emissions
– Mobile telecom is only about
0,2% of CO2 and fixed 0,4%
Our focus to reduce our own
footprint
› ICT key to reduce the other
98% of CO2 emissions
– The enabling effect
Our focus on enabling solutions
CO2
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FORMULA FOR MODERNIZING AND OPTIMIZING
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A Practical Example: Ericsson Tower
Tube
In the Middle East
›Less Space Required
›Uses Air Flow for cooling
›Protection from environment
›Ericsson Energy Efficient
Technology
›Soon with wind power
›An investment in the future
Could Government Encourage A Cleaner Approach?
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Our FOCUS ON Enabling, transformative
solutions
15% CO2 savings ~ € 600B by 2020
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Examples of our Assessment of
ENABLING EFFECTS
› E-health system in Croatia
connecting 2400 primary
healthcare teams providing
e-referrals and e-prescriptions
– Potential reduction factor:50
› Telia Sonera Sweden
”Smart work” 2001-2007
– Office space reduction ~ 50% per
employee
– Travel reduced by ~ 40% - ~ 75%
per employee
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Weather Info for All WIFA
› Challenge
– Climate change is drastically altering weather patterns
and threateing people’s lives and liveliheoods
– In Africa, the situation is worsened by the limited
availability of accurate weather information
› Objective
– Installation and inspection of 5000 Automatic Weather
Stations at new or existing telecom sites in Africa
– Provide end users with applications to enhance life
based on weather data
– Bring the network operators in Africa into the initiative
› Partners
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–
–
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World Meteorological Organization & ACMED
Ericsson
Mobile operators
The Earth Institute
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50 Billion Connected devices
in the world by 2020
Personal
network
Online
homes
People
Intelligent
transport
Businesses
Societies
Industry
& society
Smart
utilities
Everything that benefits from a network connection will have one
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Conclusions
› Energy efficiency key
› The ICT is part of the
solution for the overall
challenge
› Transformative change will
take time, but have the
largest and most
sustainable impact.
› ICT can impact all kind of
Climate change
Time to act now
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