sustainability regulation

Governments around the world are taking urgent action to address climate change. In the EU, this includes a raft of policies designed to improve environmental efficiency and establish a circular economy.

For companies in the ICT sector, environmental regulation has complex implications. It pressures them to improve their own performance, while creating opportunities for them to deploy digital solutions to help organisations in other sectors work in a more environmentally-friendly way.

Our sustainability service deciphers the complexity of environmental regulation and makes it easy to understand how interrelated EU policies affect your organisation. Start your personal demo today and find out what our independent, expert insight could do for you.

general topics covered

EU environmental policy

Stay up to date on EU environmental policies. Our sustainability service provides clarity, insight and commentary on the key aspects of the European Green Deal, including the Fit for 55 package and Circular Economy Action Plan. Topics covered include:

  • European Climate Law
  • Renewable energy and energy efficiency policy
  • Corporate sustainability reporting
  • Waste and recycling
The impact on the ICT sector

Many aspects of environmental policy have a direct or indirect impact on the ICT sector. Our sustainability service explores the rules and their implications for ICT companies, covering topics such as:

  • Environmental impacts of digitisation and innovation
  • Actions taken by ICT sector regulators
  • Rules and best practices for data centres
  • Transparency and reporting rules
Government and industry initiatives

Keep track of government and industry plans and targets, and understand the context behind them. We provide coverage on the steps taken by governments, regulators and ICT companies to improve sustainability. Topics covered include:

  • National environmental targets
  • Company environmental targets
  • Initiatives to improve environmental performance
The bigger picture

Climate change is a global issue. Our independent reporting and analysis covers major environmental developments on the world stage, including:

  • IPCC assessments and reports
  • COP meetings and their outcomes
  • Major policy shifts from key players

latest intelligence

Cheat sheet on sustainability tools for data centres
03 February 25 Bianca Sofian

Cheat sheet summarising and highlighting the key sustainability tools for data centres in the EU.

Belgian postal regulator publishes sustainability reporting methodology for parcel operators
24 January 25 Michael van Maris van Dijk

BIPT, the communications regulator in Belgium, has published a methodology to be used by parcel delivery operators when calculating and reporting their greenhouse gas emissions.

Holistic thinking needed to ensure that AI delivers positive environmental benefits
23 January 25 Peter Dunn

Telecoms companies should view artificial intelligence as part of a broader sustainability strategy encompassing all aspects of their operations if the benefits of the technology are to overcome the environmental costs of its introduction. In the same way, policy makers need to develop future frameworks in a holistic way. These were some of the conclusions of a report, produced by Liberty Global and EY.

EU’s first biennial transparency report highlights climate progress
23 January 25 Emilie Degand

The EU and its member states, as parties to the Paris Agreement, submitted their first biennial transparency report. The EU’s biennial transparency report reported significant progress, including a 32% reduction in net emissions compared to 1990 levels. Additionally, some €28.6 billion was provided in public climate finance and €7.2 billion in private finance to assist developing countries in reducing emissions and adapting to climate impacts.

Environmental impacts scarcely addressed in the AI Act
19 January 25 Bianca Sofian

The AI Act refers to energy-related impacts, establishing measures that track the energy consumption of training and running AI systems, as well as developing energy efficient AI models. However, the Act does not directly address other relevant environmental impacts concerning AI systems, such as water consumption, resource extraction and electronic waste.

Smartphone production causes biodiversity loss of nearly 2m hectares each year
14 January 25 Peter Dunn

An ABN AMRO study found that the production of just three common consumer goods (smartphones, trainers and sofas) destroys every year the equivalent of a wildlife habitat just under two-thirds the size of the Netherlands. Of the three studied consumer goods, the report found that smartphones cause the greatest habitat loss, at 1.9m hectares per year.

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