[LINK] UK Government Greening ICT Strategy

[Tom Worthington]

The UK Government has issued a Greening Government ICT strategy: 
<http://www.cio.gov.uk/greening_government_ict/>.

The UK claims to be the first Government to set out a strategy for 
reducing the environmental impact of computer systems and has an 
ambitious target to be carbon neutral by 2012.  However, the proof of 
a strategy is in the implementation. Also it is tempting to take the 
easy way out with a carbon neutral plan buy just buying offsets, 
rather than doing the hard work needed to actually reduce CO2 emissions.

Some excerpts from the report are available in my blog: 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2008/09/greening-government-ict.html>

With strategies for 
<http://www.tomw.net.au/blog/2008/09/improving-energy-efficiency-of-pcs-and.html>improving 
the energy efficiency of PCs, Australia may well catch up and 
overtake the UK in energy saving.



Tom Worthington FACS HLM tom.worthington at tomw.net.au Ph: 0419 496150
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Adjunct Senior Lecturer, Australian National University