This is the information age. Whether watching a missed “Office” episode on our laptops in a local coffee shop, “yelping” a restaurant on our Blackberry’s as we walk by it, updating our Facebook statuses just before we rappel from a Himalayan cliff, or just checking our e-mail while in the waiting room at the dentist’s office, we are all able to access information from virtually anywhere. The bad news? The Information and Communications Technology (ICT) sector creates 2% of global greenhouse gas emissions. The good news is that its services and products could cut the world’s emissions by an estimated 15% when applied in industry, buildings, transport and power sectors (Greenpeace.org).
With our planet on the brink of runaway climate change, Greenpeace created a website, called The Cool IT Challenge, that exposes the gap between what the IT industry could do to fight climate change, and what they’re doing today.
This key sector claimed that it could enable emissions reductions of 7.8 (more…)