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Consistent Carbon Accounting for ICT: Achieving Comparable Emissions Data

Join the ICT Workgroup of ICARB to ensure consistent and comparable carbon accounting in the built environment. Explore methodologies, standards, and best practices for calculating ICT emissions. Collaborate with industry experts and stakeholders to address the challenges of dematerialization and disposal in the ICT sector.

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Consistent Carbon Accounting for ICT: Achieving Comparable Emissions Data

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  1. Guy Hudson, Convenor“International network for Carbon Accounting Reporting, and Reduction in the Built environment “ICT Workgroup

  2. ICARB • Positioning: a clear need – to ensure consistent and therefore comparable carbon accounting • At a formative stage

  3. ICARB Questions • What does this mean applied to ICT? • How do we achieve the objective?

  4. 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]

  5. ICARB Consistent carbon accounting • Scope is very large • Deep but very narrow Divided up into – 10? workgroups

  6. The world according to ICARB2 Dimensions of the problem Government Cities Communities Scope Footprinting Individuals Buildings ICT Sectors

  7. Footprinting The Process • Boundaries • Calculation - Energy x Factor • Opportunities for improvement • Action • [Offset]

  8. 3rd Dimensions of the problem For each sector. Each application level - identify parameters Boundaries Parameters Datasets Units, Metrics, Factors (organisations and projects considered in the sector subcommittees)

  9. The ICT Workgroup? Steering Committee Parameters Scope Sectors

  10. 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

  11. 5 Principles for calculating emissions The Greenhouse Gas Protocol World Resources Institute, report submitted to the IPCC) • Relevance • Completeness • Consistency • Transparency • Accuracy ‘and the greatest of these is consistency’

  12. 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.

  13. ICT Emissions Calcs • ICT ‘Environments’ • Office • Server Room • Support Dematerialised Growth • The Footprinting Process • Boundaries • Calculation - Energy x Factor • Quantify opportunities for improvement • Action • [Offset]

  14. ICT Industry - Carbon Culture Operational End of Life Embedded Embedded Suppliers ICT Co. User Org. Disposal Dematerialised

  15. 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

  16. 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.

  17. ICARB Questions • What does this mean applied to ICT? • How do we achieve the objective?

  18. The ICARB ICT Workgroup Contact guy@theimplementationco.com +447958157532

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