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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Xavier Renard

Jun 3, 2024

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Applying for a Board of Directors position

First and Last Name: Xavier Renard

Company Name: ACOME

Current position: Marketing Director

Company Type: Vendor/Reseller (Products)

Biography:

Xavier Renard, with 19 years in Product and Strategic Marketing, holds 23 years of experience in the Telecom and Datacom. Notably, he contributed to Nexans and Schneider-Electric, focusing on FTTH market and digitization in smart buildings and assessed for Schneider-Electric product’s environmental impact. As ACOME’s Marketing Director, he champions environmental responsibility, also serving on the FTTH Council Europe Board.

Position statement:

ACOME Group is a French industrial company specialized in High-tech network cables, ducts and connectivity. With more than 20 years of experience in fibre networks, ACOME has developed a strategic capacity for anticipation during its 90 years of existence. In the year 2000 ACOME invested in its fiber-drawing towers. In 2004, ACOME was one of the very first companies to join the FTTH Council EUROPE. In 2009, ACOME was one of the founding members of PEP Ecopassport, an Environmental Product Declaration (EPD) certified by an independent third party and now became an international program with more than 3000 EPDs available on line. In 2022, I was elected to the board of directors of the FTTH council. I was convinced that the FTTH Council had unexpressed potential to create European momentum in the decarbonization of the sector, and I wanted to make my personal contribution. The newly created sustainability committee provided an ideal framework to organize a pilot project with 11 members. We demonstrated that collectively we could invent tools allowing not only to build a first database of conversion factors for products in the sector and a first observatory, but also a means of having shareable data. At the same time, members were able to assess their company's carbon footprint (GHG Protocol). A win-win situation, whatever the size of the company. I am renewing myself today for a second term because, while we have just launched the cooperative FTTH carbon footprint platform, I want to transform this initiative into a real and sustainable dynamic. The first model will have to evolve, the rules will have to be adapted to a larger number of participants etc. This can only happen collectively. It is therefore not only a call to vote, but also a call to join the platform!

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

Since the very beginning of the FTTH Council, working for Nexans at that time. I came back in the fibre sector 5 years ago, and being elected at the board in 2022. I am nowadays active in the Sustainability committee.

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