Sustainability WG
This Working Group is where sustainability experts from telecom operators gather to discuss Europe’s ESG policies.
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The Group follows and shapes all the relevant policy debates, while working on best-practices and benchmarks on the best telecom sustainability practices.
Topics
- DNA: Sustainability
- Circular economy initiatives
- Sustainable Finance/ taxonomy (monitoring)
- Regulatory measures to foster sustainable networks such as the review of the Broadband cost reduction directive and others
- Consumers/green initiatives: such as empowering the consumer for the green transition; proposal for a regulation on substantiating environmental claims using the product/organisation environmental footprint methods (green claims); universal charger (with DES WG)
- Circular economy follow-up initiatives such as Sustainable products policy initiative, including a revision of the Eco-design Directive, circular electronics initiative, future reparability index, etc
- Activities related to the European Green Digital Coalition
Leadership
- Chairs: Florian Feillet, Orange; Marc Jourdan, Telenor Group
- Chair of Energy Efficiency Taskforce: Alena Trifiro, TIM
