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A Methodology for Assessing the Environmental Effects Induced by ICT Services: Part II: Multiple Services and Companies
KTH, School of Architecture and the Built Environment (ABE), Sustainable development, Environmental science and Engineering, Strategic Sustainability Studies.ORCID iD: 0000-0001-5327-6535
2020 (English)In: Proceedings of the 7th International Conference on ICT for Sustainability, Association for Computing Machinery , 2020, p. 46-55Conference paper, Published paper (Refereed)
Abstract [en]

Information and communication technologies (ICT) can make existing products and activities more efficient or substitute them altogether and could thus become crucial for the mitigation of climate change. In this context, individual ICT companies, industry organizations and international initiatives have started to estimate the environmental effects of ICT services. Often such assessments rely on crude assumptions and methods, yielding inaccurate or even misleading results. The few existing methodological attempts are too general to provide guidance to practitioners. The starting points of this paper are i) a high-level standard from the European Telecommunication Standardisation Institute (ETSI) and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU), and ii) its suggested enhancements for single service assessment outlined in A Methodology for Assessing the Environmental Effects Induced by ICT Services Part I: Single services (Part I in short). Building on the assessment of single services, the current article identifies and addresses shortcomings of existing methodologies and industry practices with regard to multiple services assessment. For a collection of services, it addresses the goal and scope definition, the so-far ignored aggregation of effects among several services, and the allocation between several companies contributing to one or more services. The article finally brings these considerations together with those of Part I into a workflow for performing such assessments in practice.

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Association for Computing Machinery , 2020. p. 46-55
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ICT4S2020
Keywords [en]
Induced effect, enabling effect, enablement, digitization, digital services, avoided emissions, abatement
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Other Engineering and Technologies
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URN: urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-282540DOI: 10.1145/3401335.3401711Scopus ID: 2-s2.0-85090499396OAI: oai:DiVA.org:kth-282540DiVA, id: diva2:1471740
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QC 20201118

Available from: 2020-09-29 Created: 2020-09-29 Last updated: 2025-02-10Bibliographically approved

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