(Session 4) Climate
Change: Global
Threat and Global Opportunity
ITU’s Green Standards Week
james.lovegrove@techamerica.org
7 September 2011
http://www.itu.int/ITUT/climatechange/gsw/201102/programme06-08.html
Advancing Climate Change Solutions
1990: TechAmerica
opens up an EU
office in Brussels
1992: UN’s Earth
Summit & Creation
of UNFCCC
1997:
Kyoto
2002: EU’s 6th
Community
Environment
Action
Programme,
2008: EU’s 2020-20 targets
2009: EuP
& “lots”
‘93: EU’s IPP
1992: TechAmerica
creates its first
Susainability Working
Group
1994: AeA
Energy
Efficiency
Drive /
Energy Star
2000:
ECCP
1995: Energy
Star expanded
to include
office
equipment
2003 ewaste and
substance
bans
2007: TA
launch of
EE
campaign
2010:
ICT4EE
forum
2008: EU’s
energy
star Reg.
TWO “ASKS” :
1. Get involved in the ICT4EE forum
(www.ict4ee.eu)
2. Get involved in TAE’s activities
(e.g. Durban Technology Mission
james.lovegrove@techamerica.org)
(1) ASK #1 = sign-up to the forum
(1.1) Background
‘Mobilising ICT to
facilitate the transition
to an energy efficient,
low carbon economy’
European Commission, 2009
(1.2) ICT4EE Forum - Launch
•Founding Members
•3 Year Roadmap
•Steering Committee
•3 Working Groups
ICT4EE Forum ToR
(1.3) ICT4EE Forum - Aims
The overarching aim of the ICT4EE Forum is to link
Information & Communication Technology more closely to EU
climate and energy policies and economic development.
1. Demonstrate the commitment of the ICT sector to work in partnership to
deliver energy efficient ICT solutions in other sectors of the European
economy and leadership in managing the energy efficiency of its own
processes
2. Help ensure a coordinated approach from the ICT sector in Europe to EU
policy recommendations on ICT4EE and climate and energy policies more
broadly
3. Help ensure informed and coordinated policy making in the European
Commission, European Parliament and Member States on the ICT4EE
agenda
(1.4) ICT4EE Forum - Aims
Industry’s Platform to…
Manage ICT footprint
Enable ICT solutions
Engage in policy-making
(1.5) Working Group 1
Manage ICT footprint
Measuring the Energy
Efficiency of ICT Processes
• WG1 work phases:
– Scoping
– Methodology framework
– Reporting
– Target setting
(1.6) Working Group 1
Overview
• Scoping
• Scope of ICT industry (based on OECD guidance)
• Methodology framework
• Contributions/presentations from WG members, international
standardisation bodies and relevant initiatives
 ITU-T, IEC, ETSI, GSMA, Green Grid, Green IT Promotion Council
• Assessing output of international/European standardisation
organisations (inter alia, ITU-T, IEC and ETSI) & eventually integration
of relevant standards into a methodology framework
 Definitions
 Principles
 Requirements
• Reporting
• Target setting
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(1.7) Working Group 2
Enable ICT solutions
Enabling Energy Efficiency in
other Sectors
– Transport
– Buildings
– Energy
(1.8) Working Group 2
Overview
• 2011
• Development of taxonomy of energy-efficiency enabling ICT-applications and
–processes
• Documentation of associated assessment methodologies (cross-topic and by
sector, alignment with ITU methodologies, particularly on fleet management)
• Focus on the traffic/transport sector, highlighting the areas:
1. Road-use charging
2. Driving-behavior monitoring and education
3. Real-time traffic-flow optimisation
• 2012
• Generalisation of transport sector specific findings / creation of sectorspecific methodologies based on transport sector experience – to the
buildings and energy sectors
• Summary of the methodological basis and identified inhibitors for policy
recommendations on the enabling potential of ICT
• Close Collaboration with relevant sectors, the EC, ITU-T and other
initiatives
(1.9) Working Group 3
Engage in policy-making
Policy and Technology for the
Future
– Transformation
– Behavioural Change
– Innovation Drivers
– Scenario building and
policy frameworks
(1.10) Working Group 3
Overview
• Policy overview of 15+ Countries underway (in the EU and beyond)
• Find both policy & technology barriers and accelerators to rolling out smarter
high-technology within the next 5 years which supports both EU’s 2020 and
Europe 2020 Strategy
• GAP Analysis of key current and pending legislation and initiatives at EU and
National Level
• Traffic Lights System for the policies analysis = POLIWIKI
• Provide insights and criteria guided by the ‘From IT to ET (Enabling
Technologies) study’ from The Imperial College, London
• Analysis of the impact that different ICT-enabled applications can have on
carbon abatement
•
Key outreach with OECD, Member States & NGOs
(1.11) Poliwiki Project: A breakthrough digital channel for
government business engagement
The Challenge:.
The Proposed Solution: Project
The ICT4EE Forum is a group of world leading businesses and industry
bodies, collectively representing 500+ enterprises. It’s broad objective is to
facilitate the delivery of ICT enabled products and services to help deliver
Europe’s much need shift toward energy efficiency. One of the ways in which
the forum is supporting this transition is to facilitate:
The strength of the IT to ET method is:
 it directly addresses many of the challenges faced by the ICT4EE
Forum, in terms of openness, transparency and standards/quality.
 more intelligent analyses of national and international energy and
environment policy, and
 sharper engagement between industry and policy makers to deliver
smarter policies and smarter business action.
The challenge for the Forum to achieve its objective it has to overcome a
great deal of complexity in the most efficient, engaging and sustainable
manner. However, there are many voices with many opinions regarding
policies, there are no standard methods by which to assess or track the
effectiveness of individual policies or the use of common policy instruments
across regions, and when methods are employed, there is little to no
transparency regarding how analyses are completed (i.e., how conclusions
are formed), or the degree to which conclusions represent the views of a
single influential person or the consensus of a multitude of stakeholders.
As part of the IT to ET project, Dr Peter Thomond and his team at Imperial
College London have created a policy analysis method that delivers open,
transparent, standardised and intelligent analyses of national and
international energy and environment policy. The outcome is a ‘traffic light
analysis’ of policies to quickly flag unsupportive policies or policy instruments.
The Imperial team has successfully tested and refined the method at a high
level on individual policies from seven countries.
“Poliwiki”
The weakness of the IT to ET, at present, is:
 the analyses delivered to date represents the collective insights of Dr
Thomond’s team, not the collective intelligence of a forum representing
500+ leading businesses; moreover
 whilst the analysis can be made open upon request, it is not yet offered
on an open engaging platform through which other stakeholders and
governments can join the debate.
Therefore, the ICT4EE Forum faces opportunity:
Rather than reinventing the wheel, or maintaining the it’s current opaque
approach, the ICT4EE Forum can piggy back on the achievements of the IT
to ET method and invest in its development to ensure it serves the Forum’s
own ends. This can happen in four steps.
1. Invest to transform the current excel based process into a web-based
wiki platform – the foundation for an digital forum.
2. Enable Dr Thomond’s team to share their analyses and integrate the
Forum’s existing analyses onto the forum.
3. Launch the forum to a closed audience – the ICT4EE Forum - to tap
the collective intelligence of its members by crow-sourcing its first
standard, transparent policy analyses (the Imperial Team will
moderate and support the analyses and full engagement process).
4. At an agreed point the Imperial Team will drawn together a big picture
implications report and the ICT4EE Forum will use this to open the
digital forum to policy makers to engage their expertise
The outcome will be the first premier digital channel, the Wikipedia of policy
analysis and business-Governmental debate.
Investment needed to achieve this 29,500 Euros.
Poliwiki Project
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com
Poliwki
Select a region to read or contribute to our community’s analysis
Poliwiki Project
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com
Poliwki
Article
your gateway
to industry
government
collaboration
and debate
Region focus: France
Regions:
•France
•Germany
•Sweden
•UK
•Czech Rep.
•Portugal
•Poland
•EU27
•OECD
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•National Energy Efficiency Action Plan (NEEAP)
•Retailer Sustainable Commerce Agreement
•Le Grenelle de L’Environnement (Environment Round Table)
•Climate-Energy Contribution
Submit new policy analysis
Poliwiki Project
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com
Poliwki
your gateway
to industry
government
collaboration
and debate
Regions:
•France
•Germany
•Sweden
•UK
•Czech Rep.
•Portugal
•Poland
•EU27
•OECD
Article
Read Edit
Policy focus: Le Grenelle de L’Environnement: Articles relating to Law 1 (and part of Law 2)
•When was it enacted?
•What period will it be in effect?
Submit new policy analysis
•What are its intended objectives (provide an abstract of the policy)?
•Who are the key policy contacts?
•What references can be used to find out more?
•Which instruments does the policy employ to achieve its objectives?
• Regulatory
• Economic (Subsidies and Levies)
• Behavioural (Knowledge transfer, benchmarks
• Government lead (physical provision of infrastructure, technical means, public services)
•Does the policy set a clear statement of intent?
•a commitment, principle or rule to deliver ‘public good’?
•Does the policy appear to be well organised?
•based upon a comprehensive organisation and analysis of relevant information?
•Which carbon arenas does the policy appear to impact the most?
•What scale of technologies is the policy most likely to influence?
•How will the policy's primary outcome stimulate the ICT sector?
•Is primary outcome above fully explained and understood?
•What is the value or utility placed on each potential outcome, is this well defined?
•How effective is the policy for supporting ICT enabled energy efficiency?
•What opportunities and challenges does the policy create for ICT vendors?
Poliwiki Project
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com
Poliwki
Article
your gateway
to industry
government
collaboration
and debate
Policy focus: Le Grenelle de L’Environnement: Articles relating to Law 1 (and part of
Law 2)
Regions:
•France
•Germany
•Sweden
•UK
•Czech Rep.
•Portugal
•Poland
•EU27
•OECD
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•Which instruments does the policy employ to achieve its objectives?
• Regulatory
The articles outline a number of covenants, which subscribe France to targets that include
> reducing greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) by at least 20% (in line with the European
Community's binding international commitment to reduce emissions) and increasing this target to
30% provided that other industrialized countries outside the European Community agree on
similar goals.
• increasing the share of renewable energies to at least 23% of its consumption final energy by
2020 (Article 2).
> Reducing energy consumption in existing buildings by at least 38% by 2020 (Article 5).
> The construction of new public and tertiary sector buildings will be subject to an application for
building permits enforcing energy consumption to be less that a threshold equivalent to 50
kilowatt hours per square meter, per year on average (Article 4).
> The installation of smart meters for individuals to allow householders to better understand their
energy consumption in real time and thus control it.
• Economic (Subsidies and Levies)
The articles outline a number of economic instruments to support the delivery of targets, for
example:
> Soft loans and grants of up to 20% of construction cost will be given to providers of social
housing to support renovation projects that increase energy efficiency (Article 5)
> Article 18 states reduced energy consumption will be encouraged by the implementation of
Poliwiki Project (process)
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com
Poliwki
your gateway
to industry
government
collaboration
and debate
Regions:
•France
•Germany
•Sweden
•UK
•Czech Rep.
•Portugal
•Poland
•EU27
•OECD
Article
Read Edit
BEST PRACTICE CROWD SOURCING:
Step 1. Define campaign:
define objectives,
design scope of participation (who should be in your crowd),
define the challenges to be posed to the crowd (so you don’t to fall for the dangers of crowd
sourcing),
select and modify appropriate crowd sourcing platform (to ensure value for money and reliability).
Step 2. Initiate and launch:
design and ready the portal/platform;
design and deliver communications packages;
launch the portal.
Step 3. Manage the campaign
monitor portal (policing fair use and respectful behaviour);
deliver catalyst interventions to drive the effectiveness of the process.
Steps 4. Aggregate and analyse user input
evaluate campaign,
create high-level action plans (e.g. converting ideas into high-level project plans/proposals).
Step 5.Next steps
adopt, adapt, refine action plans;
communicate outcomes with users;
convert key users into the new social network that will act as catalysed change agents to deliver
(2) Back to TAE...
OECD Green Growth
Strategy.
Paris, 25 March
Winter: Cloud
Compupting: EUUS gvt initiative
EU’s cloud
computing expert
grp
UNFCCC presessional
workshops.
Bangkok, 8-11 April
25-27 April
OECD-NEPAD
conference
Dakar
10 Feb: Cloud
Computing
launch
(imperial)
18 May
ITU (Geneva)
Workshop : ICT
Sector
Engagement
Towards a Green
Economy:
“Pathways to
Sustainable
Energy for ALL”
UNFCCC first
sessional.
Bonn, 6-17
June
6 June:
Virtualisation
initiative &
tech specs
ITU symposium,
Ghana 7-8 July
COP 17.
Durban
28
November9
December
Green Standards
Week. Rome, 5-9
September
July : TA’s
Cloud
commission
report
See Seperate
Slide for TAE
activities

Our focus: Cloud Computing – it’s carbon
impact, likely adoption and the role of policy
in four EU countries: France, Germany,
Sweden and UK.

Our approach: to develop ‘open’
methodologies and models; leverage data
and expertise from our partners; build upon
prior work (e.g. GeSI).

Our key findings from shifting 3 applications
from ‘on-premise’ to Cloud
‒
Dramatic reduction in numbers of servers
= significant reduction energy consumption
•
Small/micro firms represent 60% of savings
‒
Akin to reducing ICT’s carbon footprint by 5%
‒
Energy mix more influential than PUE
Consultants
CO2e Millions of Tonnes
(2.1) Executive Summary - Extract
Approx 90%
(2.2) What can Policy Makers do to Drive Adoption? Extract
Each of our four countries guide or provide broad incentives for
general energy efficiency.
e.g. The UK
>Climate Change Act 2008
>Low Carbon Transition Plan
>Low Carbon Industrial Strategy
>Climate Change Agreements
>Carbon Reduction Commitment / CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme
>Climate Change Levy 2001
>Greening Government ICT Strategy
>Energy Act 2008
Key
:
Creates direct incentives for the adoption of Cloud
Computing
Creates direct incentives or enforceable regulation
for energy/carbon emissions reduction
(such as a price on carbon or new compliance
standards)
Sets target that directly place energy/carbon
reduction on the corporate agenda
Only indirectly places energy/carbon reduction on
the corporate agenda
Consultants
• Policy is broadly supportive
o However, it is so “at 10,000
feet”
• Can policy makers have a more
direct impact?
(2.3) Several broad ‘mega trends’ favour shift to the
cloud - - Extract
Most social and economic mega trends support the adoption of Cloud
Computing, but none will make a decisive difference on their own
Global Economic Turbulence
Sustainability Movement
Rise of Social Technologies
Globalisation
Supportive
trends
Rise of Mobile Technologies
Commoditisation
Privacy and Data Protection
Concerns
Unsupportive
trends
Note: A number of trends that support the adoption of Cloud Computing are also
likely to drive the growth of the ICT sector, therefore, increasing Carbon Emissions.
Consultants
Examples of enabling technologies Extract
The jigsaw of a low carbon economy &
examples of Enabling Technologies:
the future of the IT to ET project
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Consultants
Smart home energy monitoring
Cloud Computing
Smart HVAC
Building management
Teleworking
Smart logistics
Efficient/electric vehicles
Smart motors
Traffic flow monitoring and
planning
Smart grid
Combined heat power
Integrated heating/refrigeration
Personal transport optimisation
Industrial process automation
Waste minimisation
Optimised product design tools
Product dematerialisation
Smart farming
Enhanced land use management
An example enabling technology Extract
If 80% of organisations across the EU adopted cloud based
email, CRM and groupware we’d save 7.47Mt of CO2e?
Sweden
UK 1.26 Mt CO2e
5% of the ICT
sector’s carbon
footprint in the EU
0.01 Mt CO2e
Poland 0.51 Mt CO2e
Germany 1.91 Mt CO2e
Czech Republic 0.19 Mt CO2e
France 0.19 Mt CO2e
Portugal 0.15 Mt CO2e
7.74M
t
CO2e
Total emissions abatement
enabled by Cloud Computing (by
switching off on-premise servers
Consultants and server infrastructure)
0.27M
t
CO2e
7.47M
t
CO2e
The total emissions created by a
Cloud Computing infrastructure
large enough to replace the onpremise services
Net carbon emissions
abatement enabled by
Cloud Computing
(2.4) ASK # 2 = TAE’s tech mission
Climate Change Summit:
COP 17, Durban
28 November- 9 December
Deliverable 1
Participation in UNFCCC technology stand:
•
Present High-Technology Solutions for
Climate Change (from solar power to
cloud computing)
•
Virtual Technology (follow-on from
TAE/UNFCCC’s Bonn outreach)
•
Participate in UNFCCC’s Media Center interviews with company experts
N.B. Opportunity for a Member to sponsor
UN’s virtual presence at the stand (e.g. Lync,
Webex, Adobe Connect etc.)
Deliverable 2
UN, Governments + NGO Side event(s):
• UNFCCC side-event panel event on technology in
adaptation, mitigation and virtual solutions
•
Virtualisation side-eent with UNFCCC
•
Joint event with ITU and Manchester university
on Adaptation (tbc)
•
TAE event with Ghana on Adaptation (tbc)
•
TAE side-event on ICT4EE work with Imperial
College: “poliwiki” (tbc)
N.B. Request for Member sponsorship of the UN’s
virtual support at side-events (e.g. Lync, Webex,
Adobe Connect etc.)
<link>
•
•
•
Help us further to strengthen our
sector’s case as climate change
solutions as well as address issues
such as technology transfer (IP) and
green funds and participation in the
UN’s technology mechanism
As an UN observer organisation,
TechAmerica Europe is able to include
other
non-Members
(suppliers,
partners etc.) as part of a broader
trade mission to be included in
events/expos/press
and
other
opportunities.
Current Sponsors include: Microsoft,
First Solar, RIM and INTEL. Please
contact TAE by 12 September if you
wish to take up this opportunity.
Deliverable 3
Trilogy of virtual events hosted by our member
companies:
•
World Bank on Adaptation projects (21/9) (tbc)
•
ICT4EE project – poliwicki (20/10) (tbc)
•
Climate Change Grp. – projections on COP17 (16
nov) (tbc.)
Provide Virtual Technology to COP as well as certain
UNFCCC expert workstreams:
•
E.g. IPCC bureau, Technology network
Join us to develop low carbon solutions
e: james.lovegrove@techamerica.org
www.techamerica.org/europe
www.ict4ee.eu