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EU Says ICT Is Key To Cutting Carbon Emissions
Blog The Commission will encourage the ICT industry to demonstrate leadership in reducing its own CO2 emissions and by identifying and creating solutions that will benefit the whole economy. ICT can enable, across the economy, greener behaviour, which...
[May 13, 2008, 13:04]
Fujitsu Cuts Carbon Emissions
News By using this material, rather than polystyrene, Fujitsu expects to reduce carbon dioxide emissions in its operations by 11 percent. Overall, this will help Japan meet carbon dioxide emissions standards from the Kyoto Protocol that go into effect...
[February 2, 2005, 15:10]
Is Video Conferencing Really The Answer To Lowering Carbon Emissions?
Blog Comment Andrew, I'm surprised to hear that TANDBERG UK folks you met were not able to convince you on the sustainable manufacturing principles of TANDBERG.of TANDBERG's equipment manufacturing is carried out in Norway and EU nations, meaning all electronic...
[May 31, 2007, 14:33]
Is Video Conferencing Really The Answer To Lowering Carbon Emissions?
Blog Comment Rationally - video conferencing or telepresence has always made sense to reduce the business and environmental cost of travelling. I think most frequent business travellers would consider that living out of a suitcase, queuing in airports and...
[May 31, 2007, 9:14]
Is Video Conferencing Really The Answer To Lowering Carbon Emissions?
Blog Comment I was fascinated by this video demonstrating HPs new video conferencing system: http://www.cnettv.com/9710-1_53-27512.html
[May 31, 2007, 12:29]
Is Video Conferencing Really The Answer To Lowering Carbon Emissions?
Blog Comment The event was positioned around lowering carbon emissions via video conferencing and I was looking to see Tandberg and HP really doing something distinctive about green manufacturing of kit but the story I heard seemed to be mostly that Tandberg...
[May 31, 2007, 17:31]
Is Video Conferencing Really The Answer To Lowering Carbon Emissions?
Blog I also quizzed HP and Tandberg on the carbon footprint of their video-conferencing kit. I have just been at a rather interesting lunch with some chaps from HP, video-conferencing company Tandberg, the UK Centre for Environmental and Economic...
[May 30, 2007, 17:24]
Vodafone To Halve CO2 Emissions By 2020
News Vodafone has said it will halve its carbon dioxide emissions by 2020, largely by making its networks more energy efficient. We have reviewed the options, including carbon offsetting, and have concluded that the most effective strategy is to cut our...
[April 21, 2008, 14:19]
Microsoft Goes On Green Vista Offensive
News Microsoft has commissioned a report which claims the new power-management features in Vista can help companies "massively" reduce carbon emissions resulting from the use of desktop PCs. The report, carried out by PC Pro Labs, compared the running...
[March 22, 2007, 13:17]
BT Offers IT Carbon-footprint Assessments
News Large organisations have many activities that can directly or indirectly cause the emissions of carbon," said Dinah McLeod, head of the sustainability practice at BT Global Services. The assessments will calculate the amount of CO2 emissions...
[September 24, 2007, 11:42]
Government To Launch 'Green IT Strategy'
News The government is to lead the way in green IT by launching a national strategy to cut computer-related carbon emissions. Suffolk said it was important for chief information officers to begin by mastering the basics of cutting carbon emissions, by...
[May 9, 2008, 9:21]
IT Firms Commit To Fighting Carbon
News The company claims that as it consumes 0.7 percent of the UK's entire electricity consumption, it is well placed to make a contribution to the process of reducing carbon emissions. The programme will work to neutralise the effects of Salesforce.com...
[January 22, 2007, 15:56]
Green Is The Colour Of Money
Leader For tech companies, saying good things about green ideas helps to offset negative feelings over the pollutants and carbon emissions released into the environment by building and running hardware. The likes of BT, Sun and Cisco are uniquely placed...
[June 16, 2005, 14:30]
Intellect Implores Tech Sector To Go Green By 2020
News The IT and consumer electronics sector needs to act now by keeping tabs on its CO2 emissions, pushing customers towards greener behaviour and accelerating the implementation of low-carbon technology and practices, according to the report by...
[February 13, 2008, 9:07]
IT Industry Urged To Help Hit Carbon Targets
News The Climate Change Bill has already been drafted by Whitehall and will create legislation that aims to reduce UK carbon dioxide emissions by 60 percent through domestic and international action by 2050.
[October 15, 2007, 9:35]
Local Gov't Online Services Help Save Planet
News People who use the internet to contact their local authority, instead of writing or driving to council offices, could help save the equivalent of millions of air miles in carbon emissions, according to research commissioned by Communities and...
[January 18, 2008, 9:20]
Green Laws Will Tackle Standby Appliances
News The Eco-design for Energy Using Products Framework Directive, due to be signed this week, is designed to create efficiency standards for electrical equipment in an effort to drive down carbon emissions by encouraging better product design.
[July 6, 2005, 16:30]
IBM Throws Weight Behind Environmental Efforts
News Converting that internal experience, such as measuring carbon emissions or lowering packaging waste, into consulting services is a natural thing for IBM to do, he said. The programme, called Big Green Innovations, takes aim at everything from...
[March 7, 2007, 8:36]
Lazy Employees Cost Businesses Dear Over PC Usage
News The result of this neglect is spiralling electricity use for the business concerned and additional carbon dioxide emissions across the UK equivalent to the output of 120,000 4x4 cars. The UK Government has pledged to cut carbon emissions by 60...
[October 6, 2006, 17:15]
Teleworking: Truly Green Or Just Naive?
Blog What has emerged as being abundantly clear during the day is that first, the ICT industry has a huge, huge part to play in enabling the economies of Western Europe and elsewhere to achieve economic growth while reducing the rate of carbon emissions.
[March 13, 2008, 14:48]
