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Mobile sector to slash carbon footprint 40% by 2020
Mobile sector to slash carbon footprint 40% by 2020
By John C. Tanner | Nov 19, 2009
Under a new “Green Manifesto” announced by the GSMA at its Mobile Asia Congress in Hong Kong Wednesday, the mobile sector aims to reduce total global greenhouse gas emissions per connection(which excludes M2M SIMs) 40% by 2020. That target includes energy sources directly under cellco control, such as the radio network, buildings, and transport.
The manifesto also calls on the mobile industry to maintain its global carbon footprint at 245 mega-tonnes of carbon dioxide equivalent (Mt CO2e) over the next 11 years, even as the GSMA expects to grow the number of mobile connections 70% to eight billion in that time frame.
The calculations do not include the GSMA’s current initiative to install 118,000 alternate-energy base stations by 2012, which would save an extra 6.3 million Mt of carbon emissions.
Equipment vendors – while not GSMA members – are also covered in the manifesto. The GSMA intends to work with equipment vendors to ensure that the life cycle emissions of network equipment components are also reduced 40% by 2020.
Device makers will also be encouraged to reduce handset power consumption – either in standby more or in active use – 40% by 2020. The GSMA’s universal charger project, which calls for a standard, more power-efficient charger by 2012 that can be used with any handset, is intended to play a major role in that goal.
GSMA CEO Robert Conway said the mobile industry was in a powerful position to promote itself as a green industry because it’s one of the few industries that can help other sectors reduce their footprints “by more than 4.5 times mobile’s own footprint, which is the equivalent of taking one in every three cars off the road” – provided the right government policies, frameworks and incentives are in place.
“Policymakers need to take the lead on this,” said Conway, adding that the GSMA will be pitching its manifesto at the United Nations Climate Change Conference in Copenhagen next month “to ensure that mobile solutions are at the forefront” of climate change policies.
Conway added the GSMA doesn’t currently have a mechanism in place to monitor its members progress in hitting those targets, but is “working on the measurement aspect next to build a systematic approach with the GSMA as a vehicle so companies can report their progress on a standard basis.”
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