GEC na 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.
Oradores em destaque
Chris Newman
Environmental Scientist, EPA
Puneet Shrivastava
Principal Engineer, Dell
David Hirschler
Chief Sustainability Officer, ERI
Bob Mitchell
Diretor Executivo, Conselho Mundial de Eletrónica
Shahana Althaf, PhD
Agenda do evento
23 de outubro 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.
Mais informações sobre o Global Electronics Council
O Global Electronics Council (GEC) acelera a mudança sistémica para criar uma indústria eletrónica 100% sustentável até 2050.
- Isto significa emissões líquidas nulas, zero resíduos, neutralidade hídrica e um impacto adverso mínimo no ambiente e nos direitos humanos ao longo do ciclo de vida dos produtos e serviços.
- Como administradores do rótulo ecológico EPEAT, definimos a norma global para produtos electrónicos sustentáveis.
- Capacitamos os fabricantes e compradores de produtos electrónicos a atingirem os seus objectivos de sustentabilidade através da nossa acreditação, defesa e liderança líderes mundiais.
- Estamos a remodelar a relação do mundo com a tecnologia e os recursos naturais e a permitir a transformação da eletrónica, de um desafio ambiental e social crescente numa solução sustentável e capacitadora.
O nosso trabalho acelera a mudança em quatro áreas críticas de ação:
- Ação climática: Orientar o mercado para reduzir as emissões de gases com efeito de estufa no fabrico, nas cadeias de abastecimento e na utilização de produtos electrónicos.
- Circularidade: Assegurar que os produtores de produtos electrónicos concebem os seus produtos e embalagens tendo em vista a longevidade, a reutilização e a reciclagem, com o objetivo de eliminar todos os resíduos da indústria.
- Produtos químicos preocupantes: Ajudar a eliminar a utilização de produtos químicos tóxicos que são perigosos para a saúde humana e para o ambiente.
- Cadeias de fornecimento responsáveis: Salvaguardar o fornecimento responsável de materiais, as práticas laborais justas e a saúde e segurança dos trabalhadores na cadeia de abastecimento de produtos 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.
Shahana Althaf, PhD
Cientista investigador, Desenvolvimento de critérios de sustentabilidade
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.
A Dra. Althaf tem mais de nove anos de experiência em investigação sobre sustentabilidade, tanto em projectos académicos como no sector empresarial. Antes de se juntar ao GEC, trabalhou como cientista de sustentabilidade para uma empresa de consultoria de contabilidade de gases com efeito de estufa, onde liderou projectos de impressão digital para clientes do sector eletrónico e têxtil durante mais de dois anos. Trabalhou como contratante individual para a agência das Nações Unidas UNITAR na realização de investigação sobre gestão de resíduos electrónicos nas Américas e é uma das autoras do relatório Global E-waste Monitor 2024 das Nações Unidas.
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
Diretor Executivo, Conselho Mundial de Eletrónica
Como Diretor Executivo do Global Electronics Council, Bob fornece liderança e supervisão estratégica da organização para cumprir a sua visão e missão. Ele tem uma vasta experiência em negócios e direitos humanos, sustentabilidade ambiental, gestão de organizações sem fins lucrativos e sustentabilidade e programas corporativos.
Como ex-vice-presidente de Direitos Humanos e Meio Ambiente da Responsible Business Alliance (RBA), Bob liderou o desenvolvimento de estratégias e a implementação de programas de conduta empresarial responsável em um ambiente multissetorial e com várias partes interessadas. Nesta função, ele conduziu o início e o lançamento de esforços significativos em áreas como Due Diligence de Trabalho Forçado, Descarbonização das Cadeias de Fornecimento, Circularidade e Resiliência da Cadeia de Fornecimento.
É um veterano da Hewlett Packard e da Hewlett Packard Enterprise, com mais de uma década e meia de trabalho no domínio da sustentabilidade. Antes de trabalhar na RBA, foi Diretor, Responsabilidade Social e Ambiental Global na Hewlett Packard Enterprise, liderando uma equipa de profissionais em direitos humanos, gestão ambiental de produtos, responsabilidade da cadeia de fornecimento e minerais de conflito, entre outras áreas problemáticas. Bob também fez parte do Conselho de Administração da RBA e do Conselho Consultivo da Social Accountability International (SAI). Tem um MBA da Universidade do Arizona e um bacharelato da Universidade da Virgínia.
