This MEF Climate Guide aims to be a useful document for MEF-Members who would like to start with its own action plan to start reducing its CO₂ emissions. Action is needed since our climate is changing.
It is based on information from many reports, websites and industry guidelines. It is not the aim of the author to create a new or better version. On the contrary. This Climate Guide aims to be the condensed version of climate frameworks, studies, and papers, to thus enable MEF SMEs to easily digest all information and implement faster.
Via references and links the MEF-Members are empowered to make their own transition towards a NetZero future. To stimulate action by MEF-Members, a series of web-based sustainability sessions were organized in 2022 and will be continued in 2023 and beyond. In this way MEF hopes to contribute positively to stimulate the CO₂ reductions of the MEF-Members.
Contents in brief
About Climate Change
Why our climate is changing and why immediate action is needed
Measuring our ICT Emissions
Taking a closer look at the GHG emissions of our ICT sector in which most of our MEF-Members are active
Execution of Climate Actions by SMEs
Covering the implementation of corporate climate activities and shows what activities are causing the GHG emissions and how to calculate emissions and emission reduction targets
Reporting
The reporting actions of Small and Medium Enterprises (SMEs). Smaller companies might find it difficult to create a clear action plan since their in-house expertise might be lacking. Especially for those MEF-Members, this Chapter provides guidance and useful tips for reporting and communications
Further Reading
An overview of useful websites and articles for further reading
