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Think through green initiatives, execs told : Industry News : News : BCS
Think through green initiatives, execs told
15/06/2007
Business executives are being urged to pay close attention to environmentally aware initiatives and play a leading role in the development of energy-saving practices.
Speakers at the recent Kyocera Green Card conference, Victoria Barber of energy firm Centrica recommended that business leaders to commit to energy saving and sustainable procurement in an attempt to achieve positive environmental benefits among their organisations, reports IT Week.
To this end a number of ways in which IT can be used to help meet these goals were outlined, with businesses able to reduce paper consumption and travel, both of which can have definite environmental benefits in the long-term.
In doing this, Nick Harwood of Sustainable Energy Developments advised chiefs to carefully access the long-term benefits before committing to new, green processes. Stuart Williams of environmental charity Forum for the Future echoed these views.
‘IT represents a quick win as it has sizable environmental impacts, but there is a clear cost case for buying kit that uses less energy over its lifetime,’ he said.
The government recently launched a green IT taskforce designed to reduce CO2 emissions in the IT industry.
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