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Digital Supply Chain Resilience: How Companies Can Meet the Supply Chain Challenges of an Increasingly Turbulent and Challenging World

Developed in collaboration with GeSI’s global Supply Chain Working Group and leading technology companies, the publication explores how digital technologies, trusted data ecosystems, and cross-sector collaboration can help organizations strengthen supply chain resilience while advancing sustainability and long-term competitiveness.

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Carbon Accounting for ICT

GeSI worked with key industry stakeholders to create this first-of-its-kind series of carbon accounting guidance for ICT industry value chain participants, released at the end of 2024.

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Digital Solutions for Climate Action: Using ICT to Raise Ambition on Climate Action in Low and Medium Income Countries

The 2020 report highlights how digital technologies can significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions and drive climate adaptation by 2030, with a focus on seven countries: Brazil, Chile, China, India, Kenya, South Africa, and Vietnam.

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Comparison of Circulytics & Circular Transition Indicators

This paper analyses the similarities, differences and potential uses of two salient company-level CE indicator frameworks — Circulytics 2.0 from the Ellen MacArthur Foundation and the Circular Transition Indicators V1.0 from the World Business Council for Sustainable Development.

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Climate Scenario Framework Analysis (TCFD)

This Framework is designed for the ICT sector, and beyond, conduct climate scenario analyses in line with best practices. Aligned with the Task Force on Climate-related Financial Disclosures (TCFD), the recommendations help understand the financial impact of climate change on their bottom-line.

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SMARTer2030 ICT Solutions for 21st Century Challenges

GeSI’s newer installment of the SMART series, SMARTer2030 report demonstrates the remarkable potential of ICT to drive meaningful climate action by enabling a 20% reduction in global CO2e emissions by 2030

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SMARTer2030: ICTs can Help Germany Reach its Climate Targets while Delivering Economic Benefits

This iteration of the SMART series explores 12 ICT use cases to quantify the potential of these technologies in reducing carbon emissions while delivering economic benefits, in Germany.

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SMARTer 2020: The Role of ICT in Driving a Sustainable Future

The SMARTer 2020: The Role of ICT in Driving a Sustainable Future report reveals how information and communications technology (ICT) can be a powerful driver of sustainability, showing its potential to cut global emissions by up to 15%—equivalent to 7.8 gigatonnes of CO2. By offering a roadmap for energy efficiency across sectors like manufacturing, transportation, and buildings, the report highlights actionable strategies and case studies that demonstrate ICT’s transformative impact on the path to a low-carbon future.

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SMART Portugal 2020: Reducing Emissions and Increasing Energy Efficiency through ICT

This iteration of the SMART series reveals how innovative ICT solutions can powerfully reduce emissions and boost energy efficiency across sectors, offering actionable insights, urging industry and policymakers alike to leverage digital tools for impactful climate action.

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SMART2020: Enabling the Low Carbon Economy in the Information Age

GeSI’s first edition SMART report was commissioned to investigate the role of Information and Communications Technology (ICT) in addressing climate change.

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Evaluating the Carbon-Reducing Impacts of ICT – An Assessment Methodology

This framework is designed to assess and quantify the carbon-reducing potential of ICT products and services, providing businesses and industries with a clear method to measure the environmental impact of their ICT-enabled solutions.

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Materiality Assessment – Review and Alignment with the Sustainable Development Goals

This comprehensive review reflects key industry issues like data security, privacy, and climate change, while introducing emerging focus areas such as disruptive forces and the social impact of ICT products and services.

E-TASC

E-TASC (Electronics-Tool for Accountable Supply Chains) is a tool used by GeSI Members designed to streamline the data collection process and reduce Supplier fatigue for redundant risk assessment requests.

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Carbon Abatement Handbook

The purpose of this report is to provide practical support to practitioners who are calculating the carbon abatement from ICT (Information and Communication Technology).

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Mobile Carbon Impact: How Mobile Communications Technology is Enabling Carbon Emissions Reduction

GeSI commissioned the Carbon Trust to complete the first ever bottom-up quantification of the significant areas of carbon emissions abatement enabled by mobile communications technology across the USA and Europe.

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Human Rights and Base Station Security: A GeSI Issue Paper

This paper released by GeSI reviews key considerations and practices involved in protecting human rights when providing security for telecommunication base stations, or base transceiver stations (‘BTS’).

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Human Rights Issue Matrix for the ICT Sector

This paper released by GeSI reviews key considerations and practices involved in protecting human rights when providing security for telecommunication base stations, or base transceiver stations (‘BTS’)

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GeSI Good Practice Guide: Embedding Privacy and Wider Human Rights into New Product and Service Development

The GeSI Good Practice Guide offers ICT companies a structured approach to embedding privacy and human rights into new product and service development. Drawing insights from industry leaders like BT, Ericsson, and Microsoft, it outlines five essential steps to ensure companies stay aligned with human rights principles and continuously improve their practices amidst evolving stakeholder expectations.

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GeSI Good Practice Guide: Responding to UNGP’s Expectations to Remedy Human Rights Impacts

The guide offers a clear path for ICT companies to navigate the complex responsibilities of remedying human rights impacts, as outlined by the UN Guiding Principles on Business and Human Rights. It also provides valuable insights and examples, empowering businesses to address both direct and supply chain-related human rights violations effectively.

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The Human Rights and ICT – A Good Practice Guide

Developed by GeSI, this guide gives practical tools for conducting Human Rights Impact Assessments, addressing cultural differences, and implementing remedies, based on expert insights and industry best practices in ICT.

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Resilient Pathways: The Adaptation of the ICT Sector to Climate Change

The objectives of this report are to explore the impacts of climate change on the information and communication technology (ICT) sector and the potential for adaptation, including the need for new standards to be developed.

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Measuring the Energy Reduction of Selected Broadband-Enabled Activities within Households

GeSI conducted a study in collaboration with Yankee Group and the American Council for an Energy-Efficient Economy (ACEEE) to explore how broadband and ICT technologies could help reduce global greenhouse gas emissions and enhance sustainability in households.

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Fixed Network Operators Energy Efficiency Benchmark

In 2012, GeSI commissioned the development of a framework of standard energy efficiency KPIs for fixed operators.

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An Energy-Aware Survey: Mobile Phone Chargers

In 2012, GeSI commissioned a comprehensive analysis of mobile phone chargers and small handheld devices to evaluate the correlation between their rated power and mechanical/electrical characteristics.

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An Energy-Aware Survey: ICT Device Power Supplies

In 2012, GeSI and the International Telecommunication Union (ITU) commissioned a study to evaluate over 300 commercially available External Power Supplies (EPSs)

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Coltan Mining: How Tantalum-Using Industries can Commit to the Reconstruction of the DRC

Tantalum, a crucial metal in electronics, aerospace, and medicine, became a source of conflict and environmental devastation after a surge in demand in the early 2000s. The illegal mining of coltan in the Democratic Republic of Congo fueled violence, destroyed ecosystems, and violated human rights, prompting the UN to seek sustainable solutions for the industry.