ICT carbon and energy footprint Standards: used to assess ICT goods, services, and organisations' carbon and energy footprint. and other environmental impacts. These standards address especially the needs for interconnection and interoperability and are equally important for ensuring safety, reliability and environmental care.
Who creates the ICT Standards?
There are several organisations around the world which develop standards regarding ICT sector. Below you can find some examples.
European Telecommunications Standards Institute (ETSI)
A non-for-profit, standardization organization in the telecommunications industry (equipment makers and network operators) in Europe, headquartered in France, with worldwide projection. ETSI produces globally-applicable standards for Information and Communications Technologies (ICT), including fixed, mobile, radio, converged, broadcast and internet technologies.
GreenHouse Gas Protocol (GHG)
The most widely used international accounting tool for government and business leaders to understand, quantify, and manage greenhouse gas emissions. GHG Protocol is working with businesses, governments, and environmental groups around the world to build a new generation of credible and effective programs for tackling climate change. It serves as the foundation for nearly every GHG standard and program in the world - from the International Standards Organization to The Climate Registry - as well as hundreds of GHG inventories prepared by individual companies.
The GHG Protocol also offers developing countries an internationally accepted management tool to help their businesses to compete in the global marketplace and their governments to make informed decisions about climate change.
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International Electrotechnical Commission (IEC)
IEC is the leading global organization that publishes consensus-based International Standards and manages conformity assessment systems for electric and electronic products, systems and services, collectively known as electrotechnology. IEC publications serve as a basis for national standardization and as references when drafting international tenders and contracts.
ITU’s Telecommunication Standardization Sector (ITU-T)
ITU-T has a assemble experts from around the world to develop international standards known as ITU-T Recommendations which act as defining elements in the global infrastructure of information and communication technologies (ICTs). Standards are critical to the interoperability of ICTs and whether we exchange voice, video or data messages, standards enable global communications by ensuring that countries’ ICT networks and devices are speaking the same language.
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