ICT Carbon Accounting | Guy Hudson

Guy Hudson, Convenor

“International network for Carbon Accounting Reporting, and

Reduction in the Built environment “

ICT Workgroup

ICARB

• Positioning: a clear need – to ensure consistent and therefore comparable carbon accounting

• At a formative stage

ICARB

Questions

• What does this mean applied to ICT?

• How do we achieve the objective?

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]

ICARB Consistent carbon accounting

• Scope is very large

• Deep but very narrow

Divided up into – 10? workgroups

The world according to ICARB2 Dimensions of the problem

Sectors

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Individuals

Communities

Cities

Government

Buildings ICT

Footprinting

Footprinting

1. Boundaries2. Calculation - Energy x Factor3. Opportunities for improvement4. Action5. [Offset]

The Process

3rd Dimensions of the problem

Units, Metrics, Factors

Datasets

Boundaries

For each sector. Each application level - identify parameters

(organisations and projects considered in the sector subcommittees)

Parameters

The ICT Workgroup?

Steering Committee

Sectors

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Parameters

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

5 Principles for calculating emissions

1. Relevance

2. Completeness

3. Consistency

4. Transparency

5. Accuracy

‘and the greatest of these is consistency’

The Greenhouse Gas ProtocolWorld Resources Institute, report submitted to the IPCC)

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.

ICT Emissions Calcs• ICT ‘Environments’

–Office–Server Room

• Support Dematerialised GrowthThe Footprinting Process

BoundariesCalculation - Energy x FactorQuantify opportunities for improvementAction[Offset]

ICT Industry - Carbon Culture

Suppliers ICT Co. User Org. Disposal

Embedded Embedded

Operational

End of Life

Dematerialised

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

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.

ICARB

Questions

• What does this mean applied to ICT?

• How do we achieve the objective?

The ICARB ICT Workgroup

Contact guy@theimplementationco.com

+447958157532