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Work item:
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L.KPIs_Infrastructure
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Subject/title:
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Environmental Key Performance Indicators for Digital Infrastructure Adapting to Climate Change
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Status:
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Under study
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Approval process:
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AAP
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Type of work item:
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Recommendation
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Version:
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New
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Equivalent number:
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Timing:
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2025 (Medium priority)
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Liaison:
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Supporting members:
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China Telecommunications Corporation, Kenya, Telecom Italia and China
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Summary:
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Key Performance Indicators (KPIs) are essential to enable Mobile Network Operators (MNOs) to measure their progress against their sustainability goals and to act where needed to ensure they remain on target. However, at present operators take different approaches to what KPIs they report, and the methodologies used to calculate the KPI values. As operators face similar green & low-carbon and sustainability challenges – and as other stakeholders – investors, end-users – will increasingly wish to understand and review the sustainability of businesses – it makes sense to review the sustainability KPIs used in the industry and to seek the development of industry agreed KPIs. This recommendation takes up that challenge of identifying KPIs for green and sustainable digital infrastructures adapting to Climate Change.
The following recommendations are made in relation to the adoption and use of green and sustainable networks KPIs:
• There is a need for the industry to identify key metrics and develop a unified methodology for them.
• The industry should strive to identify and adopt KPIs that allow a higher level of granularity of reporting. For example, allowing operators to drill-down on the specific issues such as energy use in each part of the network – mobile, fixed, core – and ideally, at least for internal assessment, to the level of specific geographies and sites.
• It would be useful to define and adopt structured and evolving reporting standards to facilitate the evaluation of the KPIs in an automated manner.
Our proposals are intended to build upon and utilize the best practices of other telco sustainability benchmarking frameworks and related KPI definitions (such as ones proposed by GSMA [1]), and also leading consulting companies [2] [3] [4]. The KPIs and the review framework are presented as a first step towards in-depth analysis of the sustainability requirements. As the industry gains experience with the metrics, it is anticipated that the KPIs and the framework will be further developed to ensure that it is fit for purpose. This will include ensuring that the KPIs and framework continue to be aligned with work in other industry bodies – with the ultimate aim of ensuring a single set of industry wide agreed KPIs.
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Comment:
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First registration in the WP:
2022-07-07 15:48:47
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Last update:
2024-07-03 14:54:07
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