Sustainable Networks

Overview

This programme helps technology companies within the networked economy to benchmark their sustainability progress against peers, understand the implications of choices relating to network technology and architecture, and implement effective strategies for enhancing the sustainability of operations, including those of suppliers and customers. This knowledge will shape the next series of sustainability decisions that the industry will take and will help to identify opportunities within the sustainable networked economy. 

This programme is focused on sustainable networks (encompassing infrastructure, telecoms, data centres, digital systems and services, and devices).  It is underpinned by a detailed understanding of technologies and systems, and is focused on energy, greenhouse gas (GHG) emissions, embodied carbon and circularity. 

Themes

• Increasing energy efficiency in data centres, fixed and mobile networks
• Comparing the performance of players and identifying market-leading approaches
• Strategies to maximise the enabling effect of telecoms networks on sustainability
• Supply-chain strategies for reducing environmental footprint
• Measuring and reducing embodied carbon in the telecoms industry
• Analysis of the factors that could either thwart or drive sustainability of the networked economy

What does the programme include? 

This programme includes a set of deliverables including strategy reports, forecast reports, benchmarking datasets, environmental trackers, articles and case studies. 

All deliverables are based on a unique set of insights and expert analysis. 

Contact us to learn more about what is included in the programme subscription.

Questions answered

• Energy, carbon and waste: how do operators, infrastructure providers and vendors compare with their peers in terms of their environmental performance, and the ESG strategies they are establishing?
• Sustainability strategy: how can operators, infrastructure providers and vendors improve their sustainability strategies?
• Technologies: how will technologies such as AI and blockchain affect energy consumption and carbon emissions?
• Architecture: what are the sustainability implications of choosing different fixed, mobile and data-centre architectures? 
• Devices: how can operators and vendors reduce the sustainability impact of devices?
• Embodied carbon: how can embodied carbon be measured, and how much is locked up in telecoms networks?
• Regulation: how is regulation influencing evolution towards sustainable networks? 
• Service opportunities: what sustainability-enhancing services can operators offer to end customers?
• Digital infrastructure: how can sustainable digital infrastructure benefit other sectors?

Who should subscribe?

This programme is specifically designed to help telecoms operators, telecoms vendors, digital infrastructure operators, data centre operators, financial institutions and regulators. These players must understand the critical decisions required to drive sustainability throughout the supply chain.