Title :
Methods and standards for environmental impact assessment of mobile radio networks
Author :
Scheck, Hans-Otto ; Kallio, Susanna
Author_Institution :
Nokia Siemens Networks (NSN), Espoo, Finland
Abstract :
Greenhouse gas emissions (GHG) and the resulting global warming ignited an intensive debate and work on energy consumption, GHG emissions and the overall environmental impact assessment of the Telecom industry and the ICT sector. Initial studies focused on GHG emissions caused by the energy consumption during the use phase, followed by a more detailed analysis of GHG emissions during the complete lifecycle and reached now a level where the total environmental impact is addressed in 15 different impact categories from raw material extraction to end of life of a product (life cycle assessment, LCA). However, the complexity of addressing all the different categories and especially the question of how to weight the different categories is unsolved. For Telecom networks a possible solution is to focus on overall energy consumption in all life cycle stages.
Keywords :
air pollution; global warming; greenhouses; mobile radio; GHG emissions; LCA; energy consumption; environmental impact assessment; global warming; greenhouse gas emissions; life cycle assessment; mobile radio networks; Companies; Electricity; Energy consumption; Europe; Global warming; Standards; Telecommunications; cellular networks; environmental standards; life cycle analysis; life cycle power consumption;
Conference_Titel :
Telecommunications (ICT), 2013 20th International Conference on
Conference_Location :
Casablanca
Print_ISBN :
978-1-4673-6425-6
DOI :
10.1109/ICTEL.2013.6632082