GEC at eSummit 2024
SUSTAINABILITY LEADERSHIP: NEXT GENERATION EPEAT ECOLABEL CRITERIA AND STAKEHOLDER SUPPLY CHAIN PERSPECTIVES
Wednesday • October 23 • 2:00 – 3:45 pm CT
Join the Global Electronics Council (GEC) at the eSustainability Summit for a special session where we will introduce the next-generation EPEAT® ecolabel criteria. Launching in 2025, these new criteria will set the market expectation for the sustainability of ICT products in four priority areas: climate change, circularity, chemicals, and responsible supply chains.
This session is a unique opportunity for industry professionals to gain early insight into the updated criteria and hear directly from stakeholders across the ICT supply chain. Whether you are a purchaser, supplier, or recycler, you’ll learn how these changes will impact your sustainability goals and operational practices.
Ponentes destacados
Chris Newman
Environmental Scientist, EPA
Puneet Shrivastava
Principal Engineer, Dell
David Hirschler
Chief Sustainability Officer, ERI
Bob Mitchell
Consejero Delegado, Global Electronics Council
Doctora Shahana Althaf
Agenda del acto
23 de octubre de 2024
2:00 – 2:10 Introduction to GEC & EPEAT
2:10 – 2:40 Overview of EPEAT Updated Criteria
2:40 – 3:20 Stakeholder Prospectives on the Next Generation of EPEAT Ecolabel Criteria
3:20 - 3:30 Q&A & Wrap-up
This session will offer valuable insights into the future of sustainability for ICT products, with a focus on the circularity criteria. Industry leaders will share their perspectives on the implementation challenges and opportunities posed by the new standards.
Stay ahead of the curve by joining us to explore how the next generation of EPEAT criteria will help shape the sustainable technology landscape for years to come.
Contact us at criteria@gec.org for questions or more information.
More about SERI
SERI’s role is to bring all those disparate parts together to bring about real change. This unique organization is the only multi-stakeholder, collaborative nonprofit organization in the world focused exclusively on minimizing the environmental and health risks posed by used and end-of-life electronics, while also maximizing the social and economic value presented by this equipment. SERI wants everyone to think about electronics differently, to act more responsibly, and to make decisions with our electronics using sustainability as our guiding North Star. Because when we do, we’ll protect people and the environment, while making sure our electronics do a world of good.
Más información sobre el Consejo Mundial de la Electrónica
El Global Electronics Council (GEC) acelera el cambio sistémico para crear una industria electrónica 100% sostenible en 2050.
- Esto significa cero emisiones netas, cero residuos, neutralidad hídrica y mínimo impacto adverso sobre el medio ambiente y los derechos humanos a lo largo del ciclo de vida de los productos y servicios.
- Como administradores de la ecoetiqueta EPEAT, establecemos la norma mundial de la electrónica sostenible.
- Ayudamos a los fabricantes y compradores de productos electrónicos a cumplir sus objetivos de sostenibilidad a través de nuestra acreditación, defensa y liderazgo líderes en el mundo.
- Estamos reconfigurando la relación del mundo con la tecnología y los recursos naturales y haciendo posible que la electrónica pase de ser un reto medioambiental y social cada vez mayor a una solución sostenible y potenciadora.
Nuestro trabajo acelera el cambio en cuatro ámbitos de acción fundamentales:
- Acción por el clima: Guiar al mercado para reducir las emisiones de gases de efecto invernadero en la fabricación, las cadenas de suministro y el uso de productos electrónicos.
- Circularidad: Garantizar que los fabricantes de productos electrónicos diseñan sus productos y embalajes para que sean duraderos, reutilizables y reciclables, con vistas a eliminar todos los residuos de la industria.
- Sustancias químicas preocupantes: Ayude a eliminar el uso de sustancias químicas tóxicas peligrosas para la salud humana y el medio ambiente.
- Cadenas de suministro responsables: Salvaguardar el abastecimiento responsable de materiales, las prácticas laborales justas y la salud y seguridad de los trabajadores en la cadena de suministro de productos electrónicos.
David Hirschler
Chief Sustainability Officer, ERI
David Hirschler is the Chief Sustainability Officer at ERI, the nation’s leading recycler of e-waste. David is responsible for ERI’s internal and external sustainability and circularity initiatives as well as ERI’s legislative responsibilities covering the gamut of producer responsibility regulations through data protection regulations. In addition, David serves as president of the board of FABSCRAP, a nonprofit organization focused on the recycling and reuse of commercial textile waste. David has worked in the recycling field for more than 20 years and holds a Master’s Degree in Urban and Environmental Policy and Planning from Tufts University.
Chris Newman
Environmental Scientist, EPA
Chris Newman is an Environmental Scientist with the United States Environmental Protection Agency. He has worked on the sustainable materials management and end-of-life management of electronics for over 20 years. He has worked with state environmental agency staff from the upper-Midwest to support development and management of their state e-waste programs. Chris has been involved in development of criteria for several sustainable purchasing standards that cover electronic products and worked with federal stakeholders to develop end-of-life management resources for electronics, programs that help improve the management of electronic assets, and other sustainable practices. As technology’s progressed, he’s also become involved in lithium battery and photovoltaic issues, as well as critical minerals. Chris is also a steering committee co-chair for the International E-waste Management Network, which is a partnership between U.S. EPA and Taiwan’s Ministry of Environment that helps to improve e-waste management in partner countries around the globe.
Puneet Shrivastava
Principal Engineer, Dell
Puneet is the Domain Lead for Eco-design and Restricted Materials in the Compliance Architecture team at Dell. With over 16 years of experience in Dell’s product compliance team, Puneet has led several eco-design, materials, and product takeback compliance programs. He played a pivotal role in establishing the industry’s first certified closed-loop recycled plastic program, he was in the technical committee that work on major revision of the R2V3 standard. Puneet also ensured that all of Dell’s ITAD partners got certified to the R2V3 standard. He spearheaded the transition to digitize the material declaration of conformity processes, significantly increasing efficiency and transparency of parts approval process.
For the past two years, Puneet has been an active member of the GEC’s Sustainable Use of Resources and Chemicals of Concern technical committee, working on the upcoming standard revision and representing Dell. Currently, he collaborates with multiple stakeholders both within and outside Dell to ensure that product sustainability remains a top priority.
Doctora Shahana Althaf
Científico Investigador, Desarrollo de Criterios de Sostenibilidad
As Research Scientist, Sustainability Criteria Development, Dr. Shahana Althaf conducts the research on life cycle environmental and social impacts of electronics to develop environmental performance metrics and tools for quantifying the benefits of sustainable technology products. She also performs market analysis of technologies for developing the road map to broaden GEC’s mission impact.
La Dra. Althaf aporta más de nueve años de experiencia en investigación sobre sostenibilidad, tanto en proyectos académicos como en el sector empresarial. Antes de incorporarse a GEC, trabajó como Científica de Sostenibilidad para una consultora de contabilidad de gases de efecto invernadero, donde dirigió proyectos corporativos de impresión de huellas para clientes de los sectores textil y electrónico durante más de dos años. Ha trabajado como contratista individual para la agencia de las Naciones Unidas UNITAR para llevar a cabo investigaciones sobre la gestión de residuos electrónicos en las Américas y es una de las autoras del informe Global E-waste Monitor 2024 de la ONU.
Dr. Althaf has a Ph.D. in Sustainability and a master’s degree in Telecommunications Engineering from the Rochester Institute of Technology, USA. Her bachelor’s degree is in Electronics and Communications Engineering. After her Ph.D., she worked as a post-doctoral associate at Yale University’s Center for Industrial Ecology for over two years. During her post-doctoral tenure at Yale, she also served as a Fellow of the World Economic Forum’s Global Future Council for Net Zero Transition. Dr. Althaf has published several high impact journal articles, book chapters and reports on the topic of sustainability in the electronics sector. Her research has won awards such as The Journal of Industrial Ecology best paper prize – Graedel Prize 2020 and RCR best paper award 2019. She is based in Rochester, New York.
Bob Mitchell
Consejero Delegado, Global Electronics Council
Como Consejero Delegado del Global Electronics Council, Bob se encarga del liderazgo y la supervisión estratégica de la organización para cumplir su visión y su misión. Aporta una amplia experiencia en empresas y derechos humanos, sostenibilidad medioambiental, gestión de organizaciones sin ánimo de lucro y sostenibilidad y programas corporativos.
Como antiguo vicepresidente de Derechos Humanos y Medio Ambiente de Responsible Business Alliance (RBA), Bob dirigió el desarrollo y la aplicación de estrategias para programas de conducta empresarial responsable en un entorno multisectorial y de múltiples partes interesadas. En este puesto, dirigió la creación y el lanzamiento de esfuerzos significativos en áreas como la Diligencia Debida en el Trabajo Forzoso, la Descarbonización de las Cadenas de Suministro, la Circularidad y la Resiliencia de la Cadena de Suministro.
Es un veterano de Hewlett Packard y Hewlett Packard Enterprise, con más de una década y media trabajando en el campo de la sostenibilidad. Antes de trabajar en la RBA, fue Director de Responsabilidad Social y Medioambiental Global en Hewlett Packard Enterprise, dirigiendo un equipo de profesionales en derechos humanos, administración medioambiental de productos, responsabilidad de la cadena de suministro y minerales conflictivos, entre otras áreas temáticas. Bob también formó parte del Consejo de Administración de RBA y del Consejo Asesor de Social Accountability International (SAI). Posee un MBA por la Universidad de Arizona y una licenciatura por la Universidad de Virginia.
