Study uncovers IT industry's large carbon footprint

20:00 10th November 2008

The global IT industry has been slow to embrace the opportunities held in the low carbon economy, research suggests.

Analysis firm Gartner collaborated with the World Wide Fund for Nature (WWF) to study how the IT industry has created environmental solutions for customers.

The research indicated that IT organisations are often "immature" to their own environmental policies and are also slow to react to change around them in this regard.

Equally, many leading IT organisation were found to have no tangible targets towards the reduction of greenhouse gases (GHG).

Simon Mingay research vice president at Gartner, said: "An overall GHG target is one of the most basic requirements of a climate change programme, and without it organisations should be sceptical about a provider's overall climate change programme."

Dennis Pamlin, global policy advisor at WWF, advised that the IT industry should now seize the opportunities of the green agenda and not see it as a tax.

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