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GÉANT3 Carbon Footprint Analysis for Environmental Impact Mitigation

Understand the carbon footprint of GÉANT network in 2009 and explore ways to reduce GHG emissions. Learn about the calculation methods, partners involved, and recommended practices. Share your ideas for further mitigation strategies.

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GÉANT3 Carbon Footprint Analysis for Environmental Impact Mitigation

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  1. GÈANT3 Carbon Footprint 2009 Jørgen Moth, UNI-C. (jorgen.moth@uni-c.dk)

  2. Carbon footprint? the ‘carbon footprint’ measures the total greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions caused directly and indirectly by a person, organization, event or product

  3. DANTE, City House, Hills Road, Cambridge, UK

  4. GÉANT Network

  5. Question: GHG/Year due to GÉANT/DANTE? • GÉANT Climate impact • 200 kg CO2e/year ? • 200 tonnes CO2e/year ? • 2000 tonnes CO2e/year? • 20.000 tonnes CO2e/year? • 200.000 tonnes CO2e/year ? • 2 mio tonnes CO2e/year ? • (Total Europe about 5000 mio tonnes CO2e/year)

  6. Answered by GN3/NA5/task5 • 2000 tonnes CO2e in 2009 • Corresponding to 200 Danish Citizens • 0,00004 % of European total

  7. Who are GN3/NA3/task5? • GN3: Multi-Gigabit European Research and Education Network and Associated Services • NA3: Networking Activity 3 – Status and trends • Task 5: Study of Environmental impact • Partners: • HEAnet (Ireland - Mike Norris) • NIIF (Hungary - Tamas Maray) • PSNC (Poland - Rafal Sowinsky, Robert Pekal, Artur Juszczyk) • NORDUnet (Denmark, Finland, Iceland, Norway, Sweden – Lars Fischer, Jørgen Moth)

  8. GN3 Budget (Mio EURO)

  9. How to calculate and report? Use the ISO 14064 standard

  10. Which GHG emissions? • Scope 1: own emissions – standby generators, own cars, own heating, .. • Scope 2: indirect emissions – imported energy, heating and electricity • Scope 3: other indirect emissions – e.g. transportation • Stemming from the operation of the GÉANT network by DANTE

  11. Scope 1 emissions Nothing (no own cars; fuel to stand-by generators ignored) Scope 2 emissions Office – light, heating & cooling, equipment Datacentres – routers, switches, services Backbone - ILAs Scope 3 emissions Transport – business, commuting GÉANT/DANTE Baseline audit (GHG Report)

  12. Calculation of Scope 2 GHG emissions • A two step procedure is used: • Heating and electricityconsumption data provided by DANTE (Kudos to Guy Roberts!) • Consumptionvaluesmultiplied by GHG conversion factors retrieved from UK and EU data bases • http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/business/reporting/conversion-factors.htm • http://lct.jrc.ec.europa.eu/assessment/data

  13. Calculation of Scope 3 GHG emissions Business travels and commuting by car, bus, taxi ortrain: The distances covered are multiplied by the corresponding GHG conversion factors from the UK DEFRA guidelines http://www.defra.gov.uk/environment/business/reporting/ onversion-factors.htm Business flights: The emissions areobtained by the ICAO Carbon emission calculator: http://www2.icao.int/en/carbonoffset/Pages/default.aspx

  14. Office

  15. Office step 1: consumptions

  16. Office step 2: conversion to emissions

  17. Datacentre

  18. Backbone (GÉANT)

  19. Datacentre & Backbone step 1: consumptions Ex: (3500+1800)*24*365*1,7/1000 = 78928

  20. Datacentre & Backbone step 2: conversion to emissions

  21. Datacentres

  22. Backbone

  23. Transportation

  24. Transport

  25. GÉANT/DANTE GHG Report

  26. GN3/NA3/task5 partner audit results

  27. GHG abatement by GÉANT and other networks

  28. GN3/NA3/task5 next study • Use of networks to reduce GHG emissions • Current best practice: • teleworking • video conferencing • electronic documents, e-mails (don’t print them!) • … • Estimated to save about 50 mio tonnes CO2e per year; • at the expense of about 50.000 tonnes CO2e per year for networks and desktops/portables/notebooks; • An abatement factor of one thousand • To be investigated and confirmed!!

  29. Other examples and new ideas Please share your ideas and proposals with us!

  30. Questions?

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