The European Commission
Plans to pilot Methodologies
Pierre Chastanet
Policy Officer
ICT for Sustainable Growth
European Commission
Information Society and Media Directorate-General
Overall objective
• Assure a robust measurement framework to
capture energy consumption and GHG
emissions of ICTs:
– applicable to the ICT industry as a whole
– cover whole supply chain
– through international agreement
• ICT has its own specificities – so methodology
must be appropriate
Digital Agenda for Europe
Key Action 12:
‘Assess by 2011 whether the ICT sector
has complied with the timeline to adopt
common measurement methodologies for
the sector's own energy performance and
greenhouse gas emissions and propose
legal measures if appropriate’
Progress Today
• ICT Industry is working through Standardisation
Organizations and related initiatives to deliver
methodologies
• DG ENV effort on a generic measurement framework is
ongoing for a cross-industry method (not ICT-sector
specific)
– Importance of ‘forward’ compatibility
• Coherence and complementarity between all efforts is
vital
Major Initiatives under way
ITU-T SG5/Q18
IEC 111/204/NP
ETSI
WRI/WBCSD
Green Grid
GSMA
PAIA (MIT, USA)
EU: DG INFSO
EU: DG ENV
L.1400 incl. Environmental impact of ICT goods, networks and services,
also for organisations, with drafts aimed for end September 2011
Quantification methodologies of GHG emissions for electrical and electronic
products and systems
LCA assessment of telecommunication equipment and service (draft
Technical Specification of LCA)
Guidelines for accounting and reporting GHG emissions of ICT products &
services under the GHG Protocol, originally for corporate GHG emissions
(with GeSi and Carbon Trust)
Data Centre performance metrics
Benchmarking of energy efficiency of mobile networks
Product Attribute to Impact Algorithms Project: methodology and model for
environmental impact of ICT equipment, for USA/EPA (next Energy Star)
Assess the existing and co-ordinate the proposed measurement
methodologies to promote energy efficiency and GHG footprint of ICT
products, services, components, networks, processes, etc, all sub-sectors
of ICT industry. Call for pilot projects to test draft methodologies for ICT
products and services.
Call for pilot projects to test draft methodologies for Product and Corporate
Environmental Footprint (all sectors)
Hierarchy of Methodologies
Methodo.
for
Countries
Methodology
for ICT Organizations
Aggregation of impact of ICT
goods and services or
organizations at country level
Aggregation of impact of
ICT goods and services at
company level
Methodology for
ICT Projects
Methodology for ICT Goods and Services
Cost-benefit analysis of
targeted deployment of ICT
solutions in other sectors
Results of the LCA of
individual products
and services
Expected Roadmap (1)
• Summer time: editors compiling contributions to finalize
draft methodologies
• September 5th, Joint ITU-EC Workshop
– During the ITU Green Standards Week – 5-9 September, Roma
– Expectation to have all standardisation and related industrial
initiatives joining
– Key milestone to check on progress of draft methodologies
• Publication of ETSI LCA methodology in September
• Chapters of the ICT specific guidance document on the
GHG Protocol ready for review in September
Expected Roadmap (2)
• ITU-T Study Group 5 meeting in Seoul, Korea, 20-28
September
– Draft methodologies expected to be submitted for consent
• October: start of the piloting phase to road-test the
compatibility of the different methodologies
• December: draft IEC methodology available for the
quantification GHG emissions for electrical and
electronic products and systems
• December: industry’s response to the Commission Key
Action on the Digital Agenda
• January 2012: Assessment by the Commission
Piloting of Methodologies
Key Objectives
•
Focus on the methodologies for capturing the energy consumption
and carbon emissions arising from the intrinsic use of ICT products
and services.
•
Basic aim is to test the compatibility of these different methodologies
when applied by actual practitioners on: i) specific ICT products and
services; and ii) ICT organizations.
•
Ultimate objective is to establish a common methodological
framework which could be broadly adopted by the ICT industry.
•
The pilots are expected to be conducted by the ICT industry itself
(either by industrial consortia or individual industrial organisations)
without financial support from the Commission.
Pilot Testing: Overall guiding principles (1)
• Testing of methodologies for capturing the enabling effect of ICT - while no
less important - will not be considered at this stage (possibly at a later one).
• Include very specifically the supply chain aspects of the different
methodologies and the organisations within that supply chain
• The tests will not seek to benchmark individual results from specific products,
services or organizations.
• The confidentiality of data relating to individual items hardware, software, and
services will be fully respected.
• The EC encourages companies to form consortia so that the methodologies
can be tested across industry verticals and across similar value chains.
Pilot Testing: Overall guiding principles (2)
• Testing ‘compatibility’ can be:
1) using 2 methodologies on the same ICT products or services
and check if they deliver results within the same margin of error
or uncertainty
2) checking along the value chain that the metrics, data,
perimeters, scope, boundaries are coherent
– It may be that not all methodologies cover everything, but are
excellent for some specific industry segments, e.g. components
or consumer electronics.
– This can be done using different chapters of the same
methodology or different methodologies, but at least 2
methodologies need to be tested in the process.
Pilot Participation
• The pilots will be voluntary industry projects, without EC
funding
• The EC will launch:
1. A call for volunteers for individual companies or consortia to
apply
2. A call for tender for one company or consortia (ideally not from
the ICT sector) to provide a support/expert service to pilot
participants
• Thus the results of the pilots will be in terms of – e.g.
compatibility, ease of use – also any gaps – and where
each is most suited, among the various ICT industry
segments and across the product/service life cycle.
Methodologies to be considered:
•Phase 1 from September 2011
- ITU-T SG5 Q18 L Methodology Goods networks and services part of
“Methodology for environmental impact assessment of ICT goods,
networks and services” and L Methodology ICT in organizations
- ETSI LCA assessment of telecommunications equipment and services
- GESi /Carbon Trust.
ICT guidance on WRI/WBSCD product and value chain standards
• Phase 2 from January 2012
- IEC TC 111 IEC/TR 62725, Quantification methodology of greenhouse
gas emissions (CO2e) for electrical and electronic products and systems
Framework Support Project
Pilot 1
Pilot 2
•The pilots
will have a support
project to develop
testing and
evaluate results via
an independent
third party
(call for tender
June /July 2011)
Pilot 3
….Pilot x
To guide testing & evaluate results
•There are no set
limits on number
of voluntary pilots
Aim is to
encourage
participation from
all Sectors of ICT
Telecoms
Services
(Mobile & fixed)
ICT Sector
Software &
Services
(incl. Systems
Integration, online
services & data centres)
Equipment
Manufacture
& Supply
Chips and
Components
Manufacture
Computing,
Consumer
Electronics
Office & Industrial
Control Equipment
(Servers, Storage,
LANs, PCs, Printers,
Screens, Copiers…)
Telecoms
Equipment
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Indicative time table
• Call for tender for independent 3rd party support
June – July 2011
• Call for Volunteers for pilots ends
September 2011
• 1st Tests begin
• 1st Tests conclude
October 2011
By January 2012
• 2nd tests begin
• 2nd tests conclude
End January 2012
April 2012
• High Level Conference
April 2012
Further Information
• Policy
http://ec.europa.eu/information_society/act
ivities/sustainable_growth/index_en.htm
• Contact
pierre.chastanet@ec.europa.eu