Commission Européenne, présentations de la Délégation générale Société de l’Information à la délégation d’Aquitains conduite par AEC, 30 janvier 2012: villes vertes intelligentes

1. Smart Green Cities
Selected EU ICT Policy Initiatives in Context
Rencontre de représentants de la région Aquitaine
Colette Maloney, PhD
Head of ICT for Sustainable Growth Unit
30 January 2012
Directorate-General Information Society and Media
European Commission
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2. Outline
1. Defining the Concept: What Makes a City a Smart Green
City?
2. Addressing the Challenge: What’s Happening at EU ICT
Policy Initiatives Level?
3. Conclusions
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3. 1. Defining the Concept
A city becomes ‘smart’ and ‘green’ through strategic deployment of ICT
infrastructure and services to achieve sustainability policy objectives.
Energy and Resource Efficiency
Smart and Green through ICT
ICT deployed to increase energy efficiency in buildings and beyond,
including urban planning; ICT-optimised water and waste management; …
Carbon Neutrality
ICT deployed to decrease carbon footprint of private and public real estate,
to feed distributed renewables into the grid, to optimise traffic management;
…
Cost-Effectiveness
ICT deployed to realise savings through reduced peak energy demand, to
turn consumers into prosumers, to optimise logistics; …
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ICT deployed to enable achieving further public policy objectives
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4. 2. Addressing the Challenge – Part I: Towards a
Common Methodology
An agreed measurements framework to define environmental KPIs for
ICT’s impact is a precondition for any further meaningful work.
The Issue EC Approach Application to
Cities
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 Working with
 Cities’ infrastructures
international
cover whole potential of
+ standardisation bodies
(ITU, ETSI, IEC, …) smart green ICT use:
 Buldings, Neighbourhoods
 Working with industry  Energy grids
 Water
+ ICT as enablerenergy,
contribute to
to
stakeholders  Transport, Logicstics
 Cities provide sufficient
Completing and
resource efficiency demand to achieve
expanding efforts to a
targets critical mass
common framework to
- Negative impact of ICT
on the environment
capture ICT’s overall
impact across
To be able to compare
and learn cities require
How to measure the environmental own framework to
overall impact of ICT? dimensions measure ICT’s impact
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5. 2. Addressing the Challenge – Part 2: Connecting
and Enabling European Cities
The Green Digital Charter means political commitment and specific actions
towards ICT-enabled sustainability targets and greening ICT itself.
Overall Objectives
Since November 2009, to encourage cities to:
(iv)reduce the carbon footprint of their ICT and
(v) roll-out ICT solutions leading to more energy
and resource efficiency, carbon neutrality and
further public policy goals
Signatory Majors’ Commitments
 Closely cooperate on ICT deployment towards
public policy goals
 Deploy 5 large scale ICT projects within 5 years
 Decrease ICT’s direct carbon footprint by 30%
within 10 years
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6. 2. Addressing the Challenge – Part 2: Connecting
and Enabling European Cities
‘NiCE – Networking intelligent Cities for Energy Efficiency’ is the EC’s
support action to promote and advance the Green Digital Charter.
Key Objectives
 Objectives: establishing an ICT footprint Reporting Tool drawing on existing
international standards to measure, compare and report ICT’s direct carbon footprint
at city level
 Supporting the Green Digital Charter in moving from political commitment to action:
Define a set of Deliver practical Knowledge
monitoring and support to the Cooperation
exchange
reporting tools signatory cities with China
beyond GDC
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7. 2. Addressing the Challenge – Part 3:
Moving Beyond the Silo
The European Commission will focus its efforts on smart cities across
portfolios to optimise outputs and ensure public policy coherence.
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Society and
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Innovation
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8. 3. Conclusions
 The Smart Green City is one that strategically mobilises ICT
infrastructure and services towards achieving sustainability
objectives whilst addressing ICT’s own environmental impact
 The European Commission lays great emphasis on the adaption of
a common framework to measure ICT’s overall environmental
impact
 EU ICT policy initiatives work towards improving and spreading
Smart Green Cities throughout our Member States
 Interoperable and multi-application infrastructure and protocols
are the backbone to making Smart Green Cities a success story
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9. Thank you for your attention.
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