Green Digital Charter
for Cities
Vin Sumner
Clicks and Links Ltd
JCA
Geneva, 5th February 2013
Green Digital Charter
NiCE Project
ICT Footprint
Links to ITU
The Green Digital Charter
 City of Manchester / Clicks and
Links
 EUROCITIES
 European Commission
Commits cities to reduce emissions
through ICT
Promotes progress in tackling climate
change through the innovative use of
digital technologies in cities
Commitments
Three tangible commitments:
 Work with Green Digital Charter
signatories on ICT & energy efficiency
 Deploy 5 large-scale ICT pilots per city
within 5 years
 Decrease ICT’s direct carbon footprint
per city by 30% within 10 years
Signatories
The NiCE project
Networking intelligent Cities for Energy Efficiency
 Coordinator: EUROCITIES
 Partners: - Clicks and Links Ltd
- Manchester City Council
- Leibniz institute for Ecological Urban and
Regional Development
 Funding programme: 7th Framework Programme
ICT systems for Energy Efficiency
Coordination and support Action
NiCE Approach
GDC TOOLKIT
Action Framework
Action Tools Catalogue
Reporting tools (GDC, CoM, ICT)
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SUPPORT TO CITIES
GDC Contact Point
Technical trainings
Study tours
OUTREACH
Roadshows
Cooperation with CoM
Focus on China
ADVISORY GROUPS: Reference Cities Group & Expert Advisory Board
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NiCE approach
GDC TOOLKIT
Action Framework
Action Tools Catalogue
Reporting tools (GDC, CoM, ICT)
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Reference Cities Group
• Bologna, IT
• Eindhoven, NL
• Linkoping, SE
• Manchester, UK
• Warsaw, PL
• Yantai, China
SUPPORT TO CITIES
GDC Contact Point
Expert Advisory Board
Technical• trainings
Claus Barthel, Wuppertal Institute
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Dennis
Pamlin, independent consultant
Study
tours
• Jess Page, Austrian institute of Technology
• Molly Webb, Climate Group
• Nicola Villa, CISCO
OUTREACH
Roadshows
Cooperation with CoM
Focus on China
ADVISORY GROUPS: Reference Cities Group & Expert Advisory Board
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NiCE
Green Digital Charter
REFERENCE CITIES GROUP
Green Digital Action Framework
GREEN DIGITAL TOOLKIT
Action Tools
Apps
Guidelines
Methodologies
Good practice
Reporting Tools
ICT Footprint
GDC-CoM
Progress
on GDC
GDC - Commitments
The Charter breaks down into around 100 commitments which range from
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“collaborating with industry to support greener production, logistics
and green procurement” to
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“developing opportunities for innovation in eGovernment to
transform public services, for example through mobile channels”
The GDC commitments combine to support 3 overall objective aims,
namely to:
1.
Work with Green Digital Charter signatories on ICT & Energy
Efficiency;
2.
Deploy five large-scale ICT pilots per city addressing the above
areas within 5 years;
3.
Decrease ICT direct carbon footprint per city by 30% within 10
years.
Green Digital Charter
is a means to
Green Digital
GD Action Framework
Using the GD Action Framework
Using the GD Action Framework
Green Digital Toolkit
Action Tools
Action Tool
Action tool
Action tool
Tool sharing
Tool rating and commenting
Searching
Browsing
Favourites
Self Assessment Questions
ICT Footprint of a City
7 Step guide and spreadsheet
Testing with Cities
 Manchester .. Lack of asset information
 Linkoping .. Starting pilot 2013
 Survey
ITU
 NiCE continues to contribute to the ‘Methodology to
evaluate the GHG Impact of ICT in Cities' being
developed by ITU-T (Q18 , Study Group 5)
 The City methodology L.1440 for which EC is now chief
editor will provide a firm basis in terms of a common
methodology and as a result we can develop practical
reporting tools based on the emerging methodology.
 NiCE providing City input via EC and UK routes to
L1440
 L.1420 on organisations can be used by the public
administration
Challenges for L.1440
 Practicability for Cities
 Level of Accuracy
 Availability of Base Data
 Access to ICT footprints
 Positive and Negative ICT impact on footprint
 City Need
Links to ITU
L.1440
– Practical tools
– Database of footprints
GDC Outreach
Use of GD Toolkit
Adopt GDC ??
Contacts
 www.greendigitalcharter.eu
 Vin Sumner vin.sumner@clicksandlinks.com , @vinsumner