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An Assessment Methodology for Water Footprinting of ICT Products
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- Authors
- YongWoon Kim, Jeongil Yim, Hyoung Jun Kim, Sam Young Chung
- Issue Date
- 2013-11
- Citation
- Smart Water Grid International Conference (SWGIC) 2013, pp.1-6
- Language
- English
- Type
- Conference Paper
- Abstract
- It is said that ICT can help various industries and our society save energy consumption, improve greenhouse gas (GHG) emission reductions and facilitate the eco-friendly society. The ICT sector has wanted to claim such positive contribution to the sustainable society in a quantitative way but also developed quantification methodologies for the environmental loads of ICT in order to measure and reduce the loads. Lots of existing study results proved that the positive contribution of ICT is much larger than the negative contribution. The ICT sector has developed so far a set of methodologies, based on general assessment methodologies, to quantify the environmental loads of ICT. The loads are caused mainly by energy consumption, GHG emissions and e-wastes. Currently the ICT sector is considering another environmental load of water consumption involved in ICT goods, networks, services, projects, organization and waste treatment. This paper introduces existing assessment methodologies to quantify the environmental loads of ICT in terms of energy and GHG. Then this paper provides another ICT-perspective assessment methodology to account for the water usage intensity of ICT products, i.e. goods, networks and services.
- KSP Keywords
- Assessment methodology, Eco-friendly, Environmental load, Greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, Save energy, Water Consumption, Water usage, e-wastes, energy consumption, waste treatment