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Jean-Manuel Canet is a Senior Manager in charge of Climate and Biodiversity in the CSR Department of Orange Group. He has developed an expertise in the assessment of the environmental impact of ICT goods, services and organizations. He earlier led numerous projects to assess and reduce GHG emissions related to IT, for customers such as the European Parliament, France Télévisions and Zurich Financial Services. He serves as Vice-Chair of the ITU-T SG5 Working Party 3 on climate change, adaptation, mitigation and net-zero emissions, and as Rapporteur of the question on assessing the impact of telecommunications and ICTs on climate change, biodiversity and the environment, including the influence on other sectors. He served as a member of the Advisory Panel of the UNFCCC Momentum for Change initiative. Jean-Manuel graduated from Télécom ParisTech and the MBA Programme of the Collège des Ingénieurs. He holds a certificate in carbon accountancy from the French National Agency for Energy and Environment and a certificate in carbon finance from Carbone 4 Academy.