Committed to Connecting the World UN ECE Conference of European Statisticians Joint Task Force on Environmental Statistics and Indicators Room IX, Geneva, Switzerland 29 30 June 2017 The Global e waste Statistics Partnership Esperanza Magpantay Senior Statistician ICT Data and Statistics Division Telecommunication Development Bureau International Telecommunication Union (ITU) ITU has a long history of working on ICT statistics BIG data for measuring the information society Expert Groups: EGH, EGTI 1
ITU has a role to play on e waste Develop policies Set standards/recommendations Undertake assessment of the size of e waste Achieve environmentally sound management of e waste Connect 2020 Target 3.2: Volume of redundant e waste to be reduced by 50% by 2020 A decade of strong growth in ICTs 100 90 Per 100 inhabitants/households 80 70 60 50 40 30 20 10 0 2006 2007 2008 2009 2010 2011 2012 2013 2014 2015 2016* Active mobile broadband subscriptions Fixed telephone subscriptions Households with Internet access Mobile cellular telephone subscriptions Fixed broadband subscriptions Households with a computer Individuals using the Internet Note: * ITU estimates. Source: ITU. 2
Mobile as the key driver of access Mobile network coverage and evolving technologies in LDCs LTE or higher Source: ITU. Falling prices, affordable mobile services Average handset based mobile broadband prices have dropped from USD 26 in 2013 to USD 9 in 2015 Number of services and pricing models are increasing, also to adapt to the needs of LDCs Prices of devices are falling! Source: ITU. Mobile broadband prices as a percentage of GNI per capita, 2013 15, 500 MB prepaid handset based As a % of GNI p.c. 35 30 25 20 15 10 5 0 2013 2014 2015 LDCs Developed World Developing 3
Amount of e waste is growing More people joining the information society Product lifecycles become shorter Many designs do not support repair or reuse E waste poses health risks if treated inadequately 4
Better e waste data as an important first step Evaluate developments over time Set and assess targets Identify best practices of policies Minimize e waste generation Prevent illegal dumping Promote recycling Create jobs in the reuse, refurbishment and recycling sectors Help achieve SDG 11 and 12 Feedback from the private sector Reliable and harmonized e waste dataset and time series are necessary to evaluate e waste performance of countries, to set targets, and to track progress Data are needed to create a business plan, to manage and assess Producer Responsibility Organizations (PRO) and for recyclers How much electrical and electronic equipment (EEE) is placed on the market helps to predict future volumes of waste (WEEE) How much EEE/WEEE gets exported for reuse/recycling and how much e waste gets exported illegally? 5
A common set of indicators 1) Total EEE put on market This represents the size of the national e goods market 2) Total e waste generated (unit kg/inh) This represents the size of the national e waste market 3) E waste collection (unit kg/inh) This represents the amount of e waste that is collected as such 4) E waste collection rate = e waste collected / e waste generated * 100 per cent This indicator represents the performance of the formal collection Global e waste statistics partnership Formed in January 2017 to address the e waste challenge by improving e waste data 6
Objectives of the Partnership Raise awareness and build capacity to help countries produce reliable and comparable e waste statistics Collect data from countries to track developments over time and to inform policy makers and industry Enhance the understanding and interpretation of global e waste data and communicate the data to the general public and stakeholders Identify best practices of global e waste management Map recycling opportunities from e waste Inform on Sustainable Development Goals (SDG) 11.6 and 12.5 and track the ITU Connect 2020 target 3.2. 2017 2017/2018 timeline 2018 Q1 Development of promotional material, and identification of new partners and sponsors APRIL Production of a preliminary e waste data set to produce global end 2016 estimate (including using UNU estimates Eurostat/OECD/ UNECE data set) NOVEMBER Publication of the 2017 Global e waste Monitor, which will include data produced (see Result 1) and global trends and analysis NOVEMBER Present Partnership to ITU Membership, during WTIS 17 Q4 Capacity building/training of a number of selected countries (possibly Africa) in producing national e waste statistics Identification of new sponsors and partners to finance 2018 (and beyond) capacity building activities Mapping of focal points to collect e waste statistics to eventually build a global database Capacity building: Regional Workshops 7
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