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'''Date:''' Tuesday, 29 June 2021 | |||
'''Time:''' 10:20 - 13:15 CEST (UTC+2) | |||
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Revision as of 07:43, 24 May 2021
29 June 2021 | 10:30-13:15 CEST | Studio A
Consolidated programme 2021 overview / Day 1
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Working title: Green IG and Sustainability
Proposals: #12 #16 #61 #62 #74 #99
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Session information
Date: Tuesday, 29 June 2021
Time: 10:20 - 13:15 CEST (UTC+2)
Over the past year, the EuroDIG community has been discussing the need to address information and communications technology (ICT) sustainability and the crucial role of the Internet governance community to ensure that environmental sustainability is at the heart of ICTs throughout their lifecycle.
One year on, what has been achieved in Europe? What are the most prominent challenges? What else must be done to support all stakeholders in their respective roles towards greening Internet governance and the ICT ecosystem more broadly? What concrete commitments, collaborations, and plans for action are underway to develop rights-based and sustainable technologies as well as to ensure that technology is put in the service of solving the climate crisis and promoting environmental justice?
This session builds on EuroDIG 2020 Plenary 4: Greening Internet Governance and on the subsequent intersessional project, Greening Internet Governance, and it will look into concrete achievements and feasible action plans for sustainable Internet futures, particularly over the next decade in-line with the EU's plan of action.
Session description
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Format
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Input (45')
Break (15')
Breakout (smaller groups) (45')
Break (15')
Output (45')
Further reading
Sustainability intersessional projects
Past EuroDIG sessions focusing on sustainability
- PL 4 (2020) – Greening Internet governance – Environmental sustainability and digital transformation
- Flash 13 (2019) – Fighting climate change with emerging technologies – for good or ill?
- WS 11 (2017) – Drowning in data – digital pollution, green IT, and sustainable access | It also includes an extensive and continuously maintained ICT sustainability resource database
PL 4 (2020) key messages
- A standardised methodology and indicators are necessary to assess and monitor the environmental and social impact of digital technologies to enable evidence based decision making at the regulatory and political levels.
- Internet governance must include sustainability at its heart (core).
- To reduce the environmental impact of the digital world, it is necessary to adopt measures to optimise energy and material efficiency (circularity) of the digital sector. For example, increasing the use of renewables, innovating for low energy consumption, keeping devices longer in use, facilitating re-use, improving reparability and recyclability, and adopting sustainable business models.
- We need to make sure that the infrastructure we use runs on green power. We should leverage policy, and in particular the policy on spending public money, to speed along the use of a greener Internet.
- Areas where international coordination is needed the most are measures to promote the circular economy, to share environmental data, to reduce environmentally harmful consumption, to promote efficiency and enhance digital applications, and to ensure transparency regarding environmental costs and materials, as well as the improvement of data protection through technical measures.
- Regulations that increase circular production and consumption, ensure corporate accountability, and increase the reuse of devices as well as increasing their longevity are some of the most important policy areas that need to be addressed in order for Europe to have a sustainable digital future.
Selection of past IGF sessions focusing on sustainability
- IGF 2020 Environment Track
- WS #266 Sustainable #netgov By Design: Environment & Human Rights (2020)
- Internet Rights and Principles Coalition (IRPC) – Sustainable Futures I – video (2018) & Sustainable Futures II video (2019)
Reports, regulations, and studies conducted by the European Union
- European Commission (2021) – Energy-efficient Cloud Computing Technologies and Policies for an Eco-friendly Cloud Market
- European Environmental Agency (2020) – Europe’s consumption in a circular economy: The benefits of longer-lasting electronics (briefing)
- European Environment Information and Observation Network (Eionet) (2020) – Electronics and obsolescence in a circular economy
- Council of the EU (2020) – Digitalisation for the benefit of the environment
- European Commission (2020) – EU Circular Economy Action Plan
- European Commission (2020) – European Data Strategy
- European Commission (2020) – Shaping Europe's Digital Future
- European Commission (2020) – Guidance for the Assessment of Material Efficiency: Application to Smartphones
- European Parliament (2020) – Promoting product longevity: How can the EU product safety and compliance framework help promote product durability and tackle planned obsolescence, foster the production of more sustainable products, and achieve more transparent supply chains for consumers?
- European Commission & the Romanian Presidency of the Council of the European Union (2019) – Digital4Planet: Plenary session at Digital Assembly 2019
Additional resources
- Climate change impacts in Europe (link)
- Sustainable Digital Infrastructure Alliance (https://sdialliance.org/ SDIA)
People
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Focal Points
- Minda Moreira
- Michael J. Oghia
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- Alisa Heaver
- David Franquesa
- Kathrin Morasch
- Vesna Manojlovic
- Weronika Koralewska
- Laurent Lefevre
- Chris Adams
- Prof. James Crabbe
- Didier Beloin-Saint-Pierre
- Dr. Monique Calisti
- Kris Shrishak
- Amali De Silva-Mitchell
- Rapudo Hawi
- Leandro Navarro
- Ilias Iakovidis
- Fabio Monnet
- Simon Hinterholzer
- Mike Hazas
- Elizaveta Saponchik
- Florian Feillet
- Marcel Krummenauer
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