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
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Autonomous driving
Micro-electronics
Smart Energy
Digitalisation of society ICT greening other
sectors …but ICT
itself is polluting.
4.
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
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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
