التكنولوجيا وأخبارها بوابة مصر لأخبار تكنولوجيا المعلومات والإتصالات
Ericsson has joined The Pathways Coalition, a group of innovative companies
representing the infrastructure, utilities, transportation and retail sectors,
with the ambition to accelerate decarbonisation of heavy transport and reach
the objective of zero CO2 emissions latest by year 2050 or earlier, in line with
The Paris Agreement. Find out how Ericsson will support the coalition with its
unique expertise here.
Today, transport is the second largest source of global CO2 emissions and
currently contributes nearly a quarter of all global emissions. Within this,
commercial heavy transport represents a significant share of the pie, and in
order to reach the climate target set in The Paris Agreement, it is essential to
fully decarbonize commercial heavy transport by the year 2050 or earlier.
Produced and published by The Pathways Coalition, The Pathways Study
concludes that a transition to decarbonized heavy transport is not only
possible, but also financially attractive from a societal perspective. However,
to tackle the challenge and speed up the pace of change, cooperation across
sectors is necessary. The four companies that have formed The Pathways
Coalition – E.ON, H&M Group, Scania and Siemens – represent different parts
of the value chain for electrified transport: energy infrastructure provision,
energy solutions and supply, vehicle manufacturing, as well as retail with the
transport buyer perspective.
A successful de-carbonization of heavy transport will depend on how well the
transport, energy and digital sectors can realize the required integration of
infrastructures and services from a planning and operational perspective as
well as from a business model and regulatory perspective.
With Ericsson from the digital sector now joining the coalition to share its
expertise within digitalization and advanced connectivity, it will add a missing
piece to advance the pace of change necessary across this crucial sector.
Ericsson will also bring its experiences as a major buyer of transport services
for the global distribution of its mobile network equipment and the successful
work to reduce CO2 emissions in its own supply chain.
Mats Pellbäck Scharp, Head of Sustainability at Ericsson and responsible for
the organization’s cooperation with the coalition, says its unique cross-sector
setup is the key to success.
“The coalition is unique from the perspective that we have a cross-value chain
approach instead of a within-industry approach – most industry associations
like this are comprised of members all from the same industry and are focused
on working with your peers in the same industry more or less,” Pellbäck
Scharp says.
“We understood that the coalition was seeking a digitalization partner and our
involvement felt very natural from both a sustainability and technology
perspective, as well as what we thought we could bring to the table to help
this coalition reach its objectives.”
Ericsson aims to support the coalition with its unique insights into how
digitalization and especially 5G will open up new opportunities for all industry
sectors, and more specifically, for making fossil-free road transport a reality.
Managing big data, connected vehicles and infrastructure, as well as more
sophisticated digital tools is crucial to reduce emissions faster and generate
the efficiencies needed for success. Ericsson will provide important
contributions to realize these goals through its competence and experience in
the Internet of Things (IoT) and the high-speed and low latency connectivity
provided by 5G.
The company’s expertise in these areas will be used to envision and showcase
how intelligent planning of transport systems and increased efficiency in the
management of e-commerce can reduce the amount of transports needed.
Faster and more secure connectivity of vehicles can also enable more refined
policy instruments to increase the speed of transition to alternative fuels and solutions for commercial heavy transportation.
Olle Isaksson, Director Global Partnering Industry Verticals at Ericsson says:
“The services and infrastructures of transport, energy and digital will have to
get much more integrated from a planning and operational perspective as well
as from a business model and regulatory perspective. We firmly believe in the
strength of cross-sector partnering and ecosystems to realize this integration
and we are convinced that 5G and easy-to-use global connectivity have the
capacities to enable a smarter, more efficient and sustainable transport
system. The Pathways Coalition will be an important accelerator for this, and
we are very happy and motivated to contribute as a new member.”
An immediate priority of The Pathways Coalition is to prototype and demonstrate new potential solutions for possible adoption in the transport industry that will accelerate and contribute to reaching its goals.
“There are already discussions with members of the coalition on how we can
really take the next step and demonstrate our thoughts and ideas on how we
can use digitalization, electrification and other fossil-free alternative energy
sources to replace traditional fuels and progress this industry toward a fossil-
free future,” Pellbäck Scharp says.
