(Session 4) Climate Change: Global Threat and Global Opportunity

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(Session 4) Climate Change Global Threat and
Global Opportunity

• ITUs Green Standards Week
• james.lovegrove_at_techamerica.org
• 7 September 2011
• http//www.itu.int/ITU-T/climatechange/gsw/201102/
  programme06-08.html

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Advancing Climate Change Solutions
1990 TechAmerica opens up an EU office in
Brussels
1992 UNs Earth Summit Creation of UNFCCC
2008 EUs 20-20-20 targets
2002 EUs 6th Community Environment Action
Programme,
2009 EuP lots
1997 Kyoto
93 EUs IPP
2010 ICT4EE forum
2000 ECCP
1994 AeA Energy Efficiency Drive / Energy Star
2007 TA launch of EE campaign
1992 TechAmerica creates its first Susainability
Working Group
2003 e-waste and substance bans
1995 Energy Star expanded to include office
equipment
2008 EUs energy star Reg.
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TWO ASKS

• 1. Get involved in the ICT4EE forum
  (www.ict4ee.eu)
• 2. Get involved in TAEs activities (e.g. Durban
  Technology Mission james.lovegrove_at_techamerica.or
  g)

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(1) ASK 1 sign-up to the forum
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(1.1) Background
Mobilising ICT to facilitate the transition to
an energy efficient, low carbon economy

• European Commission, 2009

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(1.2) ICT4EE Forum - Launch

• Founding Members
• 3 Year Roadmap
• Steering Committee
• 3 Working Groups

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ICT4EE Forum ToR
(1.3) ICT4EE Forum - Aims

• The overarching aim of the ICT4EE Forum is
  to link Information Communication Technology
  more closely to EU climate and energy policies
  and economic development.
• Demonstrate the commitment of the ICT sector to
  work in partnership to deliver energy efficient
  ICT solutions in other sectors of the European
  economy and leadership in managing the energy
  efficiency of its own processes
• Help ensure a coordinated approach from the ICT
  sector in Europe to EU policy recommendations on
  ICT4EE and climate and energy policies more
  broadly
• Help ensure informed and coordinated policy
  making in the European Commission, European
  Parliament and Member States on the ICT4EE agenda

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(1.4) ICT4EE Forum - Aims
Industrys Platform to
Manage ICT footprint
Enable ICT solutions
Engage in policy-making
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(1.5) Working Group 1Manage ICT footprint

• Measuring the Energy Efficiency of ICT Processes
• WG1 work phases
• Scoping
• Methodology framework
• Reporting
• Target setting

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(1.6) Working Group 1Overview

• Scoping
• Scope of ICT industry (based on OECD guidance)
• Methodology framework
• Contributions/presentations from WG members,
  international standardisation bodies and relevant
  initiatives
• ITU-T, IEC, ETSI, GSMA, Green Grid, Green IT
  Promotion Council
• Assessing output of international/European
  standardisation organisations (inter alia, ITU-T,
  IEC and ETSI) eventually integration of
  relevant standards into a methodology framework
• Definitions
• Principles
• Requirements
• Reporting
• Target setting

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(1.7) Working Group 2Enable ICT solutions

• Enabling Energy Efficiency in other Sectors
• Transport
• Buildings
• Energy

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(1.8) Working Group 2 Overview

• 2011
• Development of taxonomy of energy-efficiency
  enabling ICT-applications and processes
• Documentation of associated assessment
  methodologies (cross-topic and by sector,
  alignment with ITU methodologies, particularly on
  fleet management)
• Focus on the traffic/transport sector,
  highlighting the areas
• Road-use charging
• Driving-behavior monitoring and education
• Real-time traffic-flow optimisation
• 2012
• Generalisation of transport sector specific
  findings / creation of sector-specific
  methodologies based on transport sector
  experience to the buildings and energy sectors
• Summary of the methodological basis and
  identified inhibitors for policy recommendations
  on the enabling potential of ICT
• Close Collaboration with relevant sectors, the
  EC, ITU-T and other initiatives

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(1.9) Working Group 3 Engage in policy-making

• Policy and Technology for the Future
• Transformation
• Behavioural Change
• Innovation Drivers
• Scenario building andpolicy frameworks

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(1.10) Working Group 3Overview

• Policy overview of 15 Countries underway (in
  the EU and beyond)
• Find both policy technology barriers and
  accelerators to rolling out smarter
  high-technology within the next 5 years which
  supports both EUs 2020 and Europe 2020 Strategy
• GAP Analysis of key current and pending
  legislation and initiatives at EU and National
  Level
• Traffic Lights System for the policies analysis
  POLIWIKI
• Provide insights and criteria guided by the
  From IT to ET (Enabling Technologies) study
  from The Imperial College, London
• Analysis of the impact that different ICT-enabled
  applications can have on carbon abatement
• Key outreach with OECD, Member States NGOs

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(1.11) Poliwiki Project A breakthrough digital
channel for government business engagement

• The Challenge.
• The ICT4EE Forum is a group of world leading
  businesses and industry bodies, collectively
  representing 500 enterprises. Its broad
  objective is to facilitate the delivery of ICT
  enabled products and services to help deliver
  Europes much need shift toward energy
  efficiency. One of the ways in which the forum is
  supporting this transition is to facilitate
• more intelligent analyses of national and
  international energy and environment policy, and
• sharper engagement between industry and policy
  makers to deliver smarter policies and smarter
  business action.
• The challenge for the Forum to achieve its
  objective it has to overcome a great deal of
  complexity in the most efficient, engaging and
  sustainable manner. However, there are many
  voices with many opinions regarding policies,
  there are no standard methods by which to assess
  or track the effectiveness of individual policies
  or the use of common policy instruments across
  regions, and when methods are employed, there is
  little to no transparency regarding how analyses
  are completed (i.e., how conclusions are formed),
  or the degree to which conclusions represent the
  views of a single influential person or the
  consensus of a multitude of stakeholders.
• As part of the IT to ET project, Dr Peter Thomond
  and his team at Imperial College London have
  created a policy analysis method that delivers
  open, transparent, standardised and intelligent
  analyses of national and international energy and
  environment policy. The outcome is a traffic
  light analysis of policies to quickly flag
  unsupportive policies or policy instruments.
• The Imperial team has successfully tested and
  refined the method at a high level on individual
  policies from seven countries.

• The Proposed Solution Project Poliwiki
• The strength of the IT to ET method is
• it directly addresses many of the challenges
  faced by the ICT4EE Forum, in terms of openness,
  transparency and standards/quality.
• The weakness of the IT to ET, at present, is
• the analyses delivered to date represents the
  collective insights of Dr Thomonds team, not the
  collective intelligence of a forum representing
  500 leading businesses moreover
• whilst the analysis can be made open upon
  request, it is not yet offered on an open
  engaging platform through which other
  stakeholders and governments can join the debate.
• Therefore, the ICT4EE Forum faces opportunity
• Rather than reinventing the wheel, or maintaining
  the its current opaque approach, the ICT4EE
  Forum can piggy back on the achievements of the
  IT to ET method and invest in its development to
  ensure it serves the Forums own ends. This can
  happen in four steps.
• Invest to transform the current excel based
  process into a web-based wiki platform the
  foundation for an digital forum.
• Enable Dr Thomonds team to share their analyses
  and integrate the Forums existing analyses onto
  the forum.
• Launch the forum to a closed audience the
  ICT4EE Forum - to tap the collective intelligence
  of its members by crow-sourcing its first
  standard, transparent policy analyses (the
  Imperial Team will moderate and support the
  analyses and full engagement process).
• At an agreed point the Imperial Team will drawn
  together a big picture implications report and
  the ICT4EE Forum will use this to open the
  digital forum to policy makers to engage their
  expertise
• The outcome will be the first premier digital
  channel, the Wikipedia of policy analysis and
  business-Governmental debate.
• Investment needed to achieve this 29,500 Euros.

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Poliwiki Project
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com
PoliwkiSelect a region to read or contribute to
our communitys analysis
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Poliwiki Project
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com

• Poliwkiyour gateway to industry government
  collaboration and debate
• Regions
• France
• Germany
• Sweden
• UK
• Czech Rep.
• Portugal
• Poland
• EU27
• OECD

Read
Edit
Article

• Region focus France
• National Energy Efficiency Action Plan (NEEAP)
• Retailer Sustainable Commerce Agreement
• Le Grenelle de LEnvironnement (Environment Round
  Table)
• Climate-Energy Contribution

Submit new policy analysis
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Poliwiki Project
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com

• Poliwkiyour gateway to industry government
  collaboration and debate
• Regions
• France
• Germany
• Sweden
• UK
• Czech Rep.
• Portugal
• Poland
• EU27
• OECD

Read
Edit
Article

• Policy focus Le Grenelle de LEnvironnement
  Articles relating to Law 1 (and part of Law 2)
• When was it enacted?
• What period will it be in effect?
• What are its intended objectives (provide an
  abstract of the policy)?
• Who are the key policy contacts?
• What references can be used to find out more?
• Which instruments does the policy employ to
  achieve its objectives?
• Regulatory
• Economic (Subsidies and Levies)
• Behavioural (Knowledge transfer, benchmarks
• Government lead (physical provision of
  infrastructure, technical means, public services)
  
• Does the policy set a clear statement of intent?
• a commitment, principle or rule to deliver
  public good?
• Does the policy appear to be well organised?
• based upon a comprehensive organisation and
  analysis of relevant information?
• Which carbon arenas does the policy appear to
  impact the most?
• What scale of technologies is the policy most
  likely to influence?
• How will the policy's primary outcome stimulate
  the ICT sector?

Submit new policy analysis
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Poliwiki Project
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com

• Poliwkiyour gateway to industry government
  collaboration and debate
• Regions
• France
• Germany
• Sweden
• UK
• Czech Rep.
• Portugal
• Poland
• EU27
• OECD

Read
Edit
Article

• Policy focus Le Grenelle de LEnvironnement
  Articles relating to Law 1 (and part of Law 2)
• Which instruments does the policy employ to
  achieve its objectives?
• Regulatory
• The articles outline a number of covenants,
  which subscribe France to targets that include
• gt reducing greenhouse gas emissions (CO2e) by at
  least 20 (in line with the European Community's
  binding international commitment to reduce
  emissions) and increasing this target to 30
  provided that other industrialized countries
  outside the European Community agree on similar
  goals.
• increasing the share of renewable energies to at
  least 23 of its consumption final energy by 2020
  (Article 2).
• gt Reducing energy consumption in existing
  buildings by at least 38 by 2020 (Article 5).
• gt The construction of new public and tertiary
  sector buildings will be subject to an
  application for building permits enforcing energy
  consumption to be less that a threshold
  equivalent to 50 kilowatt hours per square meter,
  per year on average (Article 4).
• gt The installation of smart meters for
  individuals to allow householders to better
  understand their energy consumption in real time
  and thus control it.
• Economic (Subsidies and Levies)
• The articles outline a number of economic
  instruments to support the delivery of targets,
  for example
• gt Soft loans and grants of up to 20 of
  construction cost will be given to providers of
  social housing to support renovation projects
  that increase energy efficiency (Article 5)
• gt Article 18 states reduced energy consumption
  will be encouraged by the implementation of
  incentives, including taxation, for energy
  efficient products, the design and manufacture of
  products and processes that reduce energy
  consumption and generate renewable energy it
  also states that mechanisms to

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Poliwiki Project (process)
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com
www.poliwiki.clevertogether.com

• Poliwkiyour gateway to industry government
  collaboration and debate
• Regions
• France
• Germany
• Sweden
• UK
• Czech Rep.
• Portugal
• Poland
• EU27
• OECD

Read
Edit
Article

• BEST PRACTICE CROWD SOURCING
• Step 1. Define campaign
• define objectives,
• design scope of participation (who should be in
  your crowd),
• define the challenges to be posed to the crowd
  (so you dont to fall for the dangers of crowd
  sourcing),
• select and modify appropriate crowd sourcing
  platform (to ensure value for money and
  reliability).
• Step 2. Initiate and launch
• design and ready the portal/platform
• design and deliver communications packages
• launch the portal.
• Step 3. Manage the campaign
• monitor portal (policing fair use and respectful
  behaviour)
• deliver catalyst interventions to drive the
  effectiveness of the process.
• Steps 4. Aggregate and analyse user input
• evaluate campaign,
• create high-level action plans (e.g. converting
  ideas into high-level project plans/proposals).
• Step 5.Next steps
• adopt, adapt, refine action plans

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(2) Back to TAE...
18 May ITU (Geneva) Workshop ICT Sector
Engagement Towards a Green Economy Pathways to
Sustainable Energy for ALL
UNFCCC pre-sessional workshops. Bangkok, 8-11
April
ITU symposium, Ghana 7-8 July
OECD Green Growth Strategy. Paris, 25 March
COP 17. Durban 28 November- 9 December
25-27 April OECD-NEPAD conference Dakar
Winter Cloud Compupting EU-US gvt initiative
EUs cloud computing expert grp
UNFCCC first sessional. Bonn, 6-17 June
Green Standards Week. Rome, 5-9 September
10 Feb Cloud Computing launch (imperial)
See Seperate Slide for TAE activities
July TAs Cloud commission report
6 June Virtualisation initiative tech specs
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(2.1) Executive Summary - Extract

• Our focus Cloud Computing its carbon impact,
  likely adoption and the role of policy in four EU
  countries France, Germany, Sweden and UK.
• Our approach to develop open methodologies and
  models leverage data and expertise from our
  partners build upon prior work (e.g. GeSI).
• Our key findings from shifting 3 applications
  from on-premise to Cloud
• Dramatic reduction in numbers of servers
  significant reduction energy consumption
• Small/micro firms represent 60 of savings
• Akin to reducing ICTs carbon footprint by 5
• Energy mix more influential than PUE

CO2e Millions of Tonnes
Approx 90
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(2.2) What can Policy Makers do to Drive
Adoption? - Extract
Each of our four countries guide or provide broad
incentives for general energy efficiency. e.g.
The UK
gt Climate Change Act 2008 Climate Change Act 2008 Climate Change Act 2008 Climate Change Act 2008  
gt Low Carbon Transition Plan Low Carbon Transition Plan Low Carbon Transition Plan Low Carbon Transition Plan  
gt Low Carbon Industrial Strategy Low Carbon Industrial Strategy Low Carbon Industrial Strategy Low Carbon Industrial Strategy  
gt Climate Change Agreements Climate Change Agreements Climate Change Agreements Climate Change Agreements  
gt Carbon Reduction Commitment / CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Carbon Reduction Commitment / CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Carbon Reduction Commitment / CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme Carbon Reduction Commitment / CRC Energy Efficiency Scheme  
gt Climate Change Levy 2001 Climate Change Levy 2001 Climate Change Levy 2001 Climate Change Levy 2001  
gt Greening Government ICT Strategy Greening Government ICT Strategy Greening Government ICT Strategy Greening Government ICT Strategy  
gt Energy Act 2008 Energy Act 2008 Energy Act 2008 Energy Act 2008  

Key
  Creates direct incentives for the adoption of Cloud Computing Creates direct incentives for the adoption of Cloud Computing Creates direct incentives for the adoption of Cloud Computing Creates direct incentives for the adoption of Cloud Computing Creates direct incentives for the adoption of Cloud Computing
  Creates direct incentives or enforceable regulation for energy/carbon emissions reduction (such as a price on carbon or new compliance standards) Creates direct incentives or enforceable regulation for energy/carbon emissions reduction (such as a price on carbon or new compliance standards) Creates direct incentives or enforceable regulation for energy/carbon emissions reduction (such as a price on carbon or new compliance standards) Creates direct incentives or enforceable regulation for energy/carbon emissions reduction (such as a price on carbon or new compliance standards) Creates direct incentives or enforceable regulation for energy/carbon emissions reduction (such as a price on carbon or new compliance standards)
  Sets target that directly place energy/carbon reduction on the corporate agenda Sets target that directly place energy/carbon reduction on the corporate agenda Sets target that directly place energy/carbon reduction on the corporate agenda Sets target that directly place energy/carbon reduction on the corporate agenda Sets target that directly place energy/carbon reduction on the corporate agenda
  Only indirectly places energy/carbon reduction on the corporate agenda Only indirectly places energy/carbon reduction on the corporate agenda Only indirectly places energy/carbon reduction on the corporate agenda Only indirectly places energy/carbon reduction on the corporate agenda Only indirectly places energy/carbon reduction on the corporate agenda

• Policy is broadly supportive
• However, it is so at 10,000 feet
• Can policy makers have a more direct impact?

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(2.3) Several broad mega trends favour shift to
the cloud - - Extract
Most social and economic mega trends support the
adoption of Cloud Computing, but none will make a
decisive difference on their own
Global Economic Turbulence Sustainability
Movement Rise of Social Technologies Globalisation
Rise of Mobile Technologies Commoditisation Priv
acy and Data Protection Concerns
Supportive trends
Unsupportive trends
Note A number of trends that support the
adoption of Cloud Computing are also likely to
drive the growth of the ICT sector, therefore,
increasing Carbon Emissions.
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Examples of enabling technologies Extract
The jigsaw of a low carbon economy examples of
Enabling Technologiesthe future of the IT to ET
project

• Smart home energy monitoring
• Cloud Computing
• Smart HVAC
• Building management
• Teleworking
• Smart logistics
• Efficient/electric vehicles
• Smart motors
• Traffic flow monitoring and planning
• Smart grid
• Combined heat power
• Integrated heating/refrigeration
• Personal transport optimisation
• Industrial process automation
• Waste minimisation
• Optimised product design tools
• Product dematerialisation
• Smart farming
• Enhanced land use management

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An example enabling technology Extract
If 80 of organisations across the EU adopted
cloud based email, CRM and groupware wed save
7.47Mt of CO2e?
5 of the ICT sectors carbon footprint in the EU
Sweden 0.01 Mt CO2e
UK 1.26 Mt CO2e
Poland 0.51 Mt CO2e
Germany 1.91 Mt CO2e
Czech Republic 0.19 Mt CO2e
France 0.19 Mt CO2e
Portugal 0.15 Mt CO2e
Total emissions abatement enabled by Cloud
Computing (by switching off on-premise servers
and server infrastructure)
The total emissions created by a Cloud Computing
infrastructure large enough to replace the
on-premise services
Net carbon emissions abatement enabled by Cloud
Computing
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(2.4) ASK 2 TAEs tech mission

• Participation in UNFCCC technology stand
• Present High-Technology Solutions for Climate
  Change (from solar power to cloud computing)
• Virtual Technology (follow-on from TAE/UNFCCCs
  Bonn outreach)
• Participate in UNFCCCs Media Center -
  interviews with company experts
• N.B. Opportunity for a Member to sponsor UNs
  virtual presence at the stand (e.g. Lync, Webex,
  Adobe Connect etc.)

Deliverable 1

• Climate Change Summit
• COP 17, Durban 28 November- 9
  December
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• Help us further to strengthen our sectors case
  as climate change solutions as well as address
  issues such as technology transfer (IP) and green
  funds and participation in the UNs technology
  mechanism
• As an UN observer organisation, TechAmerica
  Europe is able to include other non-Members
  (suppliers, partners etc.) as part of a broader
  trade mission to be included in
  events/expos/press and other opportunities.
• Current Sponsors include Microsoft, First
  Solar, RIM and INTEL. Please contact TAE by 12
  September if you wish to take up this
  opportunity.

• UN, Governments NGO Side event(s)
• UNFCCC side-event panel event on technology in
  adaptation, mitigation and virtual solutions
• Virtualisation side-eent with UNFCCC
• Joint event with ITU and Manchester university on
  Adaptation (tbc)
• TAE event with Ghana on Adaptation (tbc)
• TAE side-event on ICT4EE work with Imperial
  College poliwiki (tbc)
• N.B. Request for Member sponsorship of the UNs
  virtual support at side-events (e.g. Lync, Webex,
  Adobe Connect etc.)

Deliverable 2

• Trilogy of virtual events hosted by our member
  companies
• World Bank on Adaptation projects (21/9) (tbc)
• ICT4EE project poliwicki (20/10) (tbc)
• Climate Change Grp. projections on COP17 (16
  nov) (tbc.)
• Provide Virtual Technology to COP as well as
  certain UNFCCC expert workstreams
• E.g. IPCC bureau, Technology network

Deliverable 3
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