Green Telecom
Market & Data Reports - 01/01/2009
Calling for a better future
Ecology represents an important opportunity for the telecoms industry. Telecoms have the potential to replace carbon generating activities, optimize business processes to reduce emissions in other industries and enable the social changes that lead to a low-carbon world.
This report provides an in-depth analysis of the environmental impact of telecoms segment by segment & forecasts up to 2015.
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• Does the carbon footprint challenge pose an opportunity or a threat for the telecoms industry?
• Is there a strategic rationale for telecoms operators to go green?
• What is the carbon footprint of the European telecommunications industry?
• Which parts of the value chain have the deepest footprint and have the greatest potential to be reduced?
• What impact – at once systemic and in terms of replacement and optimisation – does the telecom sector have on other sectors and on society as a whole, and can these effects offset the industry's footprint?
• How can the telecoms industry act as a catalyst for the transition to a low carbon economy? |
1. Introduction: Why telecoms should go green
1.1. Global warming
• Necessary measures towards bucking the trend
• Rules and Regulations that affect the telecoms industry
1.2. How the telecoms industry affects the environment
• CO˛ emissions in the telecoms industry
• Indirect effects of the telecoms industry on the environment
2. Limiting the Industry’s Direct Carbon Emissions
2.1. Telecom’s “carbon chain”: carbon emissions in each link of the value chain
• Components
• Chipsets
• Terminals
• Network infrastructure
• Telco service providers
• End users
• Disposal/recycling
• The overall carbon chain
2.2. Hotspots in the network
• Reducing energy used by base stations
• Eco-friendly datacenters
2.3. End user hotspots
• Gateways, modems
• Handsets
3. A positive impact on the broader environment
3.1. Replacing energy-intensive activities
• Virtual conferences
• Teleworking
• Integrated services
3.2. Optimizing energy-intensive activities
• Radiofrequency Identification (RFID)
• Telecoms-enabled real time production
• The power supply chain
3.3. Systemic external impact: dematerialized society
4. Measuring Telecom’s carbon emissions
4.1. General observations
• Mobile vS. Fixed/IP
• Carbon emissions per user
• Evolution of overall emissions
4.2. Carbon footprint of the telecom value chain
For each activity, carbon footprint 2008-2015 (Million tonnes of CO˛)
• Chipsets
• Components
• Network infrastructure
• Telecom services
• Terminal equipment
• End users
• Disposal/recycling
4.3. External impact of telecoms, 2008-2015
• Impact of positive replacement
- Conference calls
- Videoconferencing
- Telecommuting
• Impact of positive optimization
- eServices
- Smart logistics
- Smart power management
- Smart production
• Positive systemic impact
- Online shopping
- Digitized products
- Virtualization of human interaction
4.4. Balancing internal and external effects
5. Conclusion
• Cleaning up the industry
• Saving carbon outside of the industry
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The model developed by IDATE’s experts aims to measure Telecom’s carbon emissions by segment.
Measuring Telecom’s carbon emissions
The scope of the data forecasts includes France, Germany, Italy, Spain and the United Kingdom over the 2008 - 2015 timeframe.
• Data is based on the number of mobile and fixed telecoms users in the region as provided by national telecommunications regulators.
• Market assumptions are used to estimate the future installed base of end-users, hardware renewal rates, and infrastructure investments.
• Carbon efficiency gains are based on the Kyoto Protocol targets and on specific trends witnessed throughout the telecommunications industry or in its specific segments.
The report focuses on measuring and predicting:
• the levels of carbon emissions within the telecommunications industry, looking in detail at each link of the value chain
• the carbon savings in other industries that are enabled by the implementation of telecommunications services (carbon replacement or optimization)
• the carbon savings throughout society that are indirect results of the systemic changes telecommunications bring to society (dematerialization and virtualization).
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