In December 2019, the European Commission presented the European Green Deal with the ambition of making Europe the first climate-neutral continent by 2050, boosting the economy, improving people's health and quality of life, caring for nature, and leaving no one behind.

Digitalisation will be at the core of this ambitious program and fibre is key to align the digital and sustainability agendas. As the most sustainable telecommunication infrastructure technology, full-fibre is a prerequisite to achieving the European Green Deal and making the European Union’s economy more sustainable.

The need to work collectively towards a more sustainable society has become a strategic objective of policy makers and the vast majority of private organisations alike. With this context in mind, the sustainability Working Group of the FTTH Council Europe has been created with two key objectives:

Promote full fibre as the most sustainable access network technology and enabler of multiple applications which can contribute to reducing the carbon footprint of our activities. Remote working and learning being the most obvious examples.
Support all stakeholders of the Fibre to the Home value chain in their efforts to make their respective activities more carbon neutral.

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In this episode we focus on the key sustainable challenges facing the fibre industry both in the context of the EU taxonomy and of the energy 2030 targets and much more.

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Jeroen Kanselaar

Jun 3, 2024

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Applying for the Sustainability Committee Chair position

First and Last Name: Jeroen Kanselaar

Company Name: Eurofiber

Current position: Manager ESG

Company Type: Telecom Network Operator

Biography:

Jeroen Kanselaar, Manager ESG at Eurofiber since June 2022 and responsible for realizing the company's sustainability ambitions and targets in the Netherlands, Belgium, Germany and France. Prior to that, spent 25 years as an external consultant, providing strategic and tactical advises to large mix of companies and governments. For the last 15 years worked exclusively as an external consultant on consultancy projects focused on sustainability and circularity. Projects related to sustainable strategies and policies for companies and governments as well as making buildings and products more sustainable, amongst others as a Cradle to Cradle consultant. Making products more sustainable and more circular. The drive in my work is to create positive impact and minimize negative impact.

Position statement:

My goal is to continue the initiatives and projects that I started last year as chair and to take them one level further so that the Sustainability Committee continues to deliver added value to both the individual members and to the collective as a whole in the field of sustainability, decarbonization and circularity.

Your past role(s) and activities in the FTTH Council Europe:

Chair of the Sustainability Committee since June 2023 and previously a participant in the Sustainability Committee from June 2022. Also involved from Eurofiber as a participant in the FTTH Carbon Footprint Project and on behalf of the FTTH Council as co-leader in developing the ITU Green Digital Action Program for the UN Climate Change Conference (COP28).

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