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Green ICT and future policy vision under Horizon Europe
- 1. Green ICT and future policy vision under Horizon Europe Svetoslav Mihaylov Policy Officer Smart Mobility & Living Directorate-General Communications Networks, Content and Technology European Commission Green ICT In Practice: Low Carbon ICT. ICT2018, December 2018
- 2. Political context • Paris Agreement & EU sustainability objectives • Strong cross-border dimension of the cloud • Contributing to the Sustainable Development Goals EU sustainability targets compared to 1990 levels: 2020 2030 2050 Decrease in GHG emissions 20% 40% 80-95% (100% for energy sector) Renewable energy 20% 27->35% 75-97% Improvement in Energy efficiency 20% 27->35% 41% (vs 2005-6 peak)
- 3. DEI – Digital evolves with unprecedented speed 3 Autonomous driving Micro-electronics Smart Energy Digitalisation of society ICT greening other sectors …but ICT itself is polluting.
- 5. • 2010 - European Commission mandate M/462 addressed to ESO in the field of ICT to enable efficient energy use in fixed and mobile information and communication networks (including Data Centers). • Ecodesign Regulation on servers and data storage products • Life Cycle Assessment, LCA, based methodologies developed to measure the "Environmental impact of ICT Goods, networks, services, Organizations, Projects and finally ICT in Cities (ITU-T L.14xx series ETSI ES 203 199) • European Codes of Conduct for Data Centres and broadband equipment • Single Market for Green Products- DG ENV • Product Environmental Footprint and Organisation Environmental Footprint methods as a common way of measuring environmental performance. • Specific method for ICT only and energy/CO2e only • Piloting for UPS and Data Storage Equipment EC ICT Sustainability initiatives
- 6. Digital in MFF 2021-2027 6 https://ec.europa.eu/comm ission/sites/beta- political/files/budget- may2018-horizon-europe- decision-annexes_en.pdf Reduced carbon footprint of ICT processes, covering hardware, software, sensors, networks, storage and data centres, and including standardised assessments.
- 7. Thank you for your attention! Any questions? svetoslav.mihaylov@ec.europa.eu
- 8. • Recently voted by European Union (EU) Member States • It aims to reduce, in a sustainable way, the environmental impact on these products in the EU market • It contains requirements (as of 03/2020) on: • Energy Efficiency aspects (maximum idle power consumption, minimum server efficiency in active state, minimum efficiency of the power supply unit, information requirements on product operating conditions and on idle power at higher temperature) • Material efficiency aspects (refurbishment practices, take-back schemes, design for disassembly, secure data deletion of reusable data storage equipment, securing that firmware updates for product are available for repairers, critical raw material information) Ecodesign Regulation on servers and data storage products