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Smart street lighting Ericsson Zero Site portfolio are smart encapsulated street furniture solutions. The lamp post solution is developed in co-operation with Philips to offer city officials an innovative way to support energy efficient LED lighting to meet sustainability goals, and enables network operators to offer improved city-wide mobile broadband and app coverage. This street site solution is designed to be deployed in just a few hours in a city environment. 28 Ericsson | Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Report 2014
Assessing ICT sector carbon footprint Accommodating growth in the ICT sector while enabling a low-carbon economy was the focus of new research by Ericsson in 2014, including the first-ever national assessment of the life-cycle environmental impact of ICT. By 2020, global mobile subscriptions will reach 9.5 billion, according to the November 2014 Ericsson Mobility Report. Mobile data traffic is expected to increase annually about 40% and will grow eight-fold by 2020, driven by mobile broadband, cloud services and new devices. This places huge capacity demands on tomorrow’s networks. approximately 1.5 Mtonnes CO 2e in 2010. This corresponds to 1.2% of total Swedish GHG emissions. The main electricity-consuming categories were user PCs, data centers (servers) and other user equipment. These areas also offer the larg est potential for reducing electricity consumption. When applying a global average electricity mix to the ICT model for Sweden, the relationship between the manufacturing and use stage changes considerably for all parts, (see graph). The electricity mix is used for calculating CO 2 impact based on distribution of energy sources used to produce the electricity in an area. In our study, annual GHG emissions for an average Swedish subscription, recalculated with global electricity mix, ranges from 34 kg CO 2e for 2G mobile communications up to about 560 kg CO 2e for a fixed (xDSL) broadband subscription or a workplace (LAN) PC. The relatively large impact for fixed subscription is linked to the average subscriber having a greater number of user equipment connected to the fixed network. These devices are on average physically larger compared to mobile user equipment. Fixed ICT networks carry the majority of the transmitted data, with a larger share of GHG emissions being allocated from data centers. Data growth marginal impact On a global basis the global GHG per subscriber for ICT are estimated to decrease from ~110 in 2007 to ~72 in 2020, as shown in the graph. It is also expected that individual users will have more subscriptions and devices in the future. Interestingly, the rapid increase in data capacity is not having a significant impact on the overall carbon footprint of the ICT sector. Estimates indicate GHG emissions per amount of fixed data transmitted will decrease from nearly 6 kg CO 2e/GB in 2007 to about 0.25 kg CO 2e/GB in 2020. For mobile data, the estimated decrease is even greater, from about 100 kg CO 2e/GB to about 0.5 kg CO 2e/GB during the same period. In mobile networks, there was roughly 8 times more data than voice traffic during 2014, and by 2020 there will be in the magnitude of 30 times more data than voice traffic. Graph 1: GHG emissions per subscribers outlook kg CO 2e/subscriber 250 200 150 100 50 0 2007 Graph 2: Annual GHG emissions for different average ICT subscriptions in Sweden 2010 – global electricity mix in the use stage kg CO 2e 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016 2017 2018 2019 2020 Source: Ericsson Obs! Gjord med column design. Prata med Eva/Catta/Sanna om ev frågor. Gör så här: Färglägg inte från paletten. Markera staplar med vita pilen. Välj Object–Graph–Column. Där väljer man färg och ev tint. Kolla särskilt att “Sliding” är valt på Fixed “Column ICT sub type”. Average ICT sub Mobile Type–Options: ICT sub 1 stapel: 76% 70% 2 staplar: 80% 80% 3 staplar: 70% 70% First-ever national assessment of ICT footprint In 2014, the first-ever national-level study of the life-cycle environmental impact of ICT was published together with TeliaSonera and KTH Royal Institute of Technology in Stockholm. This unique study for Sweden is based on available statistical data from 2010. The total GHG emissions due to the ICT sector in Sweden amounted to 2G mobile communications Broadband telephony 3G mobile broadband Classic telephony IPTV (high scenario) Fixed DSL broadband Office LAN 0 100 200 300 400 500 600 Source: Ericsson Use (electricity consumption) Use (other energy) Manufacturing (embodied) Ericsson | Sustainability and Corporate Responsibility Report 2014 29
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