The environmental impact of digital infrastructures is becoming a critical concern as cloud to edge systems proliferate at an unprecedented scale. The cloud–edge continuum now accounts for a rapidly growing share of global energy consumption and material use, driven by the deployment of data centers, heterogeneous edge nodes, and networking equipment. Improving energy and material efficiency across this continuum is therefore a major societal challenge, directly linked to climate change mitigation, resource depletion, electronic waste generation, and the resilience of global supply chains. Eco-design principles and circular-economy approaches must be revisited and extended beyond isolated electronic components to encompass the entire cloud–edge continuum, including hardware, software, and their interactions. Designers and system architects face significant challenges in this context, notably the limited visibility of energy and material footprints during the early design phases, the complex trade-offs between performance and environmental impacts across cloud and edge layers, and the difficulty of anticipating system life cycles. These uncertainties are further amplified by dynamic workloads, evolving user behavior, and rapidly changing business and deployment models. Addressing these challenges requires new methodologies, metrics, and tools to assess and optimize energy and material efficiency holistically across the cloud-edge continuum. 
The objective of the workshop EMEC is to gather experts from both academia and industry, covering a wide scope in the environmental sustainability of electronics. The workshop is proposed and organized by partners of the European projects EECONE and MYRTUS.